Mr Price Trainee Location Planner Opportunity to Join Merchandise Team
Location: Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Closing Date: Not Specified
If you are driven with a passion for Mr Price homeware product and an insatiable hunger to grow and learn within the location planning space and you feel you are ready to take the next step in your journey. Mr Price invites you to apply for consideration for a Trainee Location Planner opportunity available.
The purpose of this role is to effectively work within the merchandise team to achieve the company’s strategic objectives and seasonal financial strategies with a focus on location nuances. Drive sales and profitability by providing the customer with a delightful in store experience through assortment and store balancing, ensuring the right product is at the right place and in the right quantity at the right time. Deliver the objectives of the location planning team to enable growth across store formats through stock efficiencies and maximisation in line with profitability metrics.
Responsibilities
- Understanding the principles of location planning
- Develop effective strategies to optimize opportunities for store specific occurrences e.g.: coastal store needs, university towns
- Maintain store grading process which accounts for customer centric nuances
- Setup, forecast and maintain forecasts at all levels in the replenishment system
- Continuously managing and guiding the correct distribution of stock brought into the business across locations to achieve maximum return on investment
- Manage strategic allocations/deployment to ensure optimal balance of stock in stores
- Monitor and provide input into volumes behind promoted and marketed item based on analysis and understanding of customer behavior based on regional nuances
- Distribution Centre operations – involvement in setting and maintaining pick profiles, deployment parameters, monitoring actual pick/deployment volumes against projected picks and deployment schedules                        Â
Qualifications
- A Degree or Diploma in : BCom Accounting, Strategic Management, Economics, Statistics
- Display a passion for the merchandise processes
- MS Office – Intermediate MS Excel
- Initiative, results driven and have the ability to work under pressure
- Strong interpersonal and consultative skills
- Logical, methodical approach
- Analytical, conceptual, problem solving and solution-driven
- Effective communication skills at all levels of the business
About Mr Price Group
Mr Price Group (officially Mr Price Group Limited, sometimes referred to as MRP Group, and stylized in lowercase) is a South African retail group. The company operates via numerous subsidiaries, across multiple distinct retail categories, and maintains stores in numerous African countries. It is one of South Africa’s largest retail groups, by number of stores and annual revenue.
Established in 1985 and headquartered in Durban, the group has 3,100 stores across 10 brands.[5] MRP Group employs over 32,000 people, and is a Level 4 BBBEE contributor.
The company is listed on the JSE Limited, and is the largest apparel and homeware retailer on the FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index, ranking 32nd for market capitalization.