General Role
The Retail Planner forecasts and acts to support local business needs. Mains responsibilities involve sales forecasting and inventory management. It requires strong collaboration with Retail Merchandisers and Logistics Departments.
Responsible for stock management including defining the right level of stock per store per category and allocating products through sales analysis and stock monitoring on a regular basis.
Responsible for the establishment of stock replenishment strategy based on group strategy and local business character.
Major responsibilities
Supply Chain Management
Facilitate products supply in coordination with HQ supply department. Follow up on quality of deliveries from Paris. Communication with HQ and Region to solve any delivery issues.
Implement the Group’s replenishment strategy while adapting to local stock replenishment strategy by category and finding the areas of improvement.
Define the selection of Permanent Stock items (PSI) with Retail Merchandisers and set min/max level for automatic replenishment from Paris to Korea stores, twice a year.
Define min/max quantities of products to be replenished from local distributor center to stores, every quarter.
Update min/max for seasonal items according to new season launching twice a year.
Forecast short-term and long-term demand for production planning and share local market insights.
Sales & Inventory Management
Forecast sales: define yearly sales budgets by category of products in collaboration with the Retail Merchandising Director
Monitor stock ageing and propose adequate actions
Manage phased out stock with related Departments.
Conduct stock allocation from the local distribution center to stores in a daily basis
Manage and optimize monthly stock positions to guarantee the right level of inventory, avoiding lost sales or over stock situations.
Conduct monthly meetings with internal logistic teams to manage the current stock flow and tackle challenges. Suggest areas of improvement for optimum stock efficiency.
Participate in the annual stock-taking process
Merchandising operations and projects
Discounted sales management
Responsible for stock return from stores to local distributor center based on phased-out item list
Generate monthly sales analysis report
Participate in ad-hoc projects as a support to the subsidiary
Participate in the integration of SAP
Requirements & Capabilities
Ideally 5 – 8 years of relevant experience in retail industry. The position title may vary depending on the candidate’s experience level and interview results.
Merchandising & Logistic experience is preferred. Retail/sales experience is an advantage.
Experience in using SAP is a plus
Must be a good team player, detail-minded, service-oriented, and self-motivated
Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skill
Good capability to analyse and synthesise
Proactive and organized
Fluent in English is a must. Ability to understand French is an advantage.
Good at Microsoft Office program, advanced level in Excel.
A creator, artisan and seller of high-quality objects since 1837, Hermès is an independent, family-owned French house that employs more than 16,600 people worldwide. Driven by its permanent entrepreneurial spirit and consistently high standards, Hermès cultivates the freedom and autonomy of each individual through responsible management. The company perpetuates the transmission of exceptional know-how through strong territorial presence that respects people and nature, a source of exceptional materials. Sixteen artisanal métiers nurture the creativity of the house, whose collections are presented in over 300 stores around the world.
