Assistant or Associate Planner 12m FTC

OVERVIEW:

Join our team as an Assistant or Associate Planner on a 12-month fixed-term contract and play a key role in managing one of the company’s largest financial assets: our product inventory. In this dynamic role, you’ll support your manager with data entry, analysis, and allocation across your category, while learning to shape financial strategy by interpreting sales trends, inventory insights, and departmental goals. Partnering closely with Assistant Merchants, you’ll help forecast future product performance, analyze in-season results, develop cross-channel strategies, and ensure products are distributed effectively across regions and channels. This is an exciting opportunity to build foundational planning skills and make a meaningful impact on the business.

Whether you are looking to grow your foundational planning skills (Assistant Planner) or take on more strategic responsibilities (Associate Planner), this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the business.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Pre-Season

• Support the Planning Lead in building sales, margin, and inventory plans across departments, styles, and colors.

• Analyze prior results to identify growth opportunities, missed sales, and key financial drivers.

• Assess product opportunities and risks using financial and trend metrics (IMU, AUR, AUC, margin).

• Recommend style and color counts and product flow to maximize margin and productivity.

• Contribute to financial strategy presentations for grow/maintain/decline categories and create quarterly investment review materials.

• Maintain pre-season forecasting tools.

In-Season

• Deliver daily/weekly business updates, highlighting trends and variances to forecast.

• Flag risks and opportunities and propose adjustments for current and future quarters.

• Prepare sales, margin, and inventory forecasts; support monthly OTB meetings with receipt flow, stock-to-sales analysis, and pricing recommendations.

• Monitor core style performance and ensure accurate allocation and in-stock levels across stores.

• Manage weekly style-level sales plans to inform department forecasts.

• Support markdown and promotional strategies with pricing and margin scenarios.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  

• Ability to manage multiple work streams/projects with tight deadlines.  

• Strong technical aptitude, including advanced competency in Microsoft Excel and ability to quickly master new applications and systems.  

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 25th November 2025