Merchandise Planner

As the Merchandise Planner for Housewares, you’ll play a key role in driving category performance. Partnering with our buying and supply chain teams, you’ll analyse sales trends, forecast demand, and optimise stock strategies. Acting as the link between market insights and product availability, you’ll ensure our customers find the items they need – and love – in our collection. This is a dynamic, hands-on role where you’ll bring your commercial insight and planning expertise to shape our category success.With strong financial acumen, assortment building skills and a real commercial mindset, you'll work collaboratively to drive optimisation and manage the product lifecycle process, whilst being consistently on top of trends and performance.Key responsibilities include:Working with the Buyers on a range of assortment plans, controlling markdowns and category spendSetting budgets and reviewing forward plansAnalysing product performance trends and making recommendations for improvementImproving stock-flow & product lifecycle management maximising our Stock ROIDemand planning/forecasting – includes impacts of promotional activityInterpreting data into a clear narrative & actionable outcomes – story tellingCommunicating data and strategy to key stakeholder