Full Time Junior Demand Planner Beauty Cape Town

Junior Demand Planner Beauty-Clicks Group LimitedClicks is on the hunt for a Junior Demand Planner, to ensure effective demand and statistical forecasting for assigned categories in order to drive profitability through increased sales, improved margins, and working capital productivity.To be accountable forforecast accuracy within the allocated categoriesTo be accountable foroptimized inventory levels within the allocated categories and minimum order quantity within the allocated categoriesTo partner with the CategoryManagers on the development of pre-season sales, markdown, margin, and inventory plansTo analyze and propose to the merchandising department top line shifts in the assortment investment at the category levelAt the category level monitor projections, inventory flow and seasonal sell-off plans as well as validate monthly forecast for open to buymanagementTo recognize and reconcile forecast exceptions to track and manage sales against forecast and validate forecast for OTB managementTo determine causal factors impacting forecasts and respond appropriately, (weather, moving events, promotions etc.)To ensure effective stakeholder management and engagement in order to determine trends, identify new products, evaluate risks and determine inventory and replenishment requirementsTo generate and deliver accurate and timely management reports and maintain key metrics against goals in order to analyze forecast performance and ensure forecast accuracy and inventory optimization