Merchandise Planner oppportunities

The Warehouse Group (TWG) is a New Zealand success story, evolving from a single The Warehouse store to become one of the largest multi-brand retailing groups in New Zealand. As a company, we’re continuing our innovation and agile journey – with bold new ways of moving forward, empowering teams and with more effective collaboration and communication, we have our customers top of mind and work purposefully together, “Helping Kiwis live better every day”.

The Role

Are you a customer-centric Merchandise Planner excited to drive results in our dynamic multi-brand environment? Or perhaps you have a natural inquisitiveness to ask ‘why’, ‘why not’, ‘how can we do things better’, strong numerical and analytical capabilities and thrive working to deliver key objectives and results by optimization and planning?

These roles are at the heart of making insightful decisions and we’re recruiting several positions at varying experience levels to add and complement our passionate Commercial Planning team! Our team spans and supports the analytical and commercial planning across all areas of the business – Apparel, Appliances & Technology, Grocery, Home.

Your role as Commercial Planning Chapter Member (Merchandise Planner) is to balance what our customers need with how our business delivers through insightful commercial planning and pricing across our product ranges.

With strong financial acumen, assortment building skills and a real commercial mindset, you'll work collaboratively to will drive optimisation and manage the product lifecycle process, while consistently on top of trends and performance.

Your key responsibilities and work will include:

• Working with the Buyers on range assortment plans, controlling markdowns and category spend
• Setting budgets and reviewing forward plans
• Analysing product performance trends and making recommendations for improvement
• Reporting and planning - providing effective financial, forecasting and stock flow management reports
• Promotional activity
• Managing stock-flow and monitoring aged stock

About you

You’ll be passionate about and love retail as much as we do! You always have customers front of mind and can interpret data into stories, translate customer mission strategies into actionable decisions that deliver results. All things that describe you – Collaborative, excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, strong influencer. Our chapter members have the unique opportunity to practise their craft in different categories so being nimble to change to meet business needs is essential! Innate curiosity for ‘how we can do better’ will suit the fast-paced demands of the retail environment.

We are looking for someone ideally with:

• Retail and merchandise planning experience
• Balanced commercial acumen with numerical and analytical skills to translate data into commercial decisions
• Decisiveness in our dynamic, fast-moving environment

Come work with us!

We offer a dynamic, supportive and flexible team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. We’re excited as we continue to innovate, and by empowering our teams and increasing cross-collaboration, we aim to make TWG New Zealand’s best place to work!

Visit us our careers site to view our list of benefits and wellbeing initiatives: https://www.twgcareers.co.nz/nz/en/benefits