Position Summary:
Psst, what’s your side hustle? Got one? Or thinking about one? Then you’ve already grabbed our attention!
We’re RFO, the newest outlet fashion retailer, & we’re obsessed with #HustlingTogether to find our customers the most wanted clothing bargains this side of a streetwise two!
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit & thrive on being resourceful, you’ll be right at home on our team. Read on to get your disruptive juices flowing…
Key Responsibilities:
- Management of the range assortments and replenishment – keep the stores fresher than the washing.
- Management and implementation of distribution strategy e.g. analyzing stores profiles & sales trends, developing promotional & range distribution by store & cluster – that fun, nerdy excel stuff… throw in a few graphs to wow the bosses.
- Optimize our planning processes…Getting us slicker than a used car salesman.
- Projecting future sales into key categories…. So we know what to go and get more of.
- Mentoring the Merchandise Planning Team to accelerate their development…. So that we can live without you.
What you’ll have:
- Proven decision-making ability – #empowered
- Computer literacy in word, excel, and planning systems – essentially a digital treasure hunt
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills – #hustling for our customers
- Proven working experience as a Product Planner (5+ years essential)
- Strong affiliation to systems, particularly PMM and Instagram
- Strong business acumen and merchant thinking – spot a deal & make it happen!
- A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed, and strategic approach to work – turn cents into rands and lemons into lemonade
- Good organizational and interpersonal skills – teamwork makes the dream work