Associate- Planning & Trading

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Key Objectives:

• In-season Trading & Analysis - responsible for ensuring availability of right stock at right place at right time thereby enabling sales achievement
• Collaborate with VM & Retail Operations to ensure seasonal rollout is aligned and implemented
• To ensure incoming new season stock to be launched is sent to respective doors in a timely manner as per plan
• To execute accurate replenishment and to ensure stock holding is healthy at a SKU level to avoid lost sales opportunity
• To manage RTV to warehouse & stock consolidation in between stores to reduce slow moving merchandise and improve the store assortment
• To work closely with buying team and ensure buys are placed at right pockets as per requirement forecasted/strategic inputs
• Responsible for Pricing and Promotion setup, ensuring delivery of planned Net sale, markdown %, GP% and MGP
• Drive weekly, monthly reporting and analysis and present the same in sales review. Drive actions to achieve targets.
• Constantly aim to improve efficiency of replenishment, allocation and prune the tool inputs to achieve the ideal SKU level inventory state

Eligibility Criteria and Functional Competencies Required:

• Graduate from reputed institute
• Experience of 1-2 years in Retail Planning/Trading
• Excellent writing, presentation, communication and organization skills
• Experience with Excel is must
• Analytical and Numerical skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work based on business importance
• Willingness to learn new technology/tools as required by business

PUMA supports over 19,000 employees across 120+ countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and Stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany. PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all, is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.