Mr Price Group Trainee Planners


Advertiser: Mr Price Group
Location: Durban

The Mr Price Group is currently recruiting for high quality candidates who are keen on pursuing a career in Retail Merchandise Planning. The Trainee Planner opportunities are aimed at producing fully trained and equipped Retail Merchandiser Planners for our business.

The objective of your role is to ensure we invest in the right merchandise at the right price and allocate merchandise to the right store at the right time:
- If numbers are your second language and you can turn sums into poetry, then planning is the place for you
- Working alongside with experienced Buyers to develop a product strategy for each season
- You will be responsible for supporting an experienced Planner to control the budget and manage the supply chain

As a Trainee Planner, you will follow a structured training and development process. You will be placed within an actual team which will allow you to learn-on-the-job about the business and merchandise processes from the best merchandise talent in retail. Your primary focus will be to ensure sales and movement of stock, to determine initial allocation of stock, action inter-store stock transfers where applicable, review pre-determined stock and adjust if necessary, ascertain quantities and timing of purchases for replenished stock, avoid “out of stock” situations and take note of customer requests.

The minimum requirements for this Career opportunity are:
- A completed Bachelor of Commerce degree / Bachelor of Business Science degree / Diploma: specializing in Accounting, Supply Chain, Economics, Finance, Maths or Stats
- 1 year relevant work experience

The Mr Price Group currently employs over 20 000 associates and trades from over 1 000 retail stores in Africa and via online globally. There are 6 trading divisions - Mr Price, Mr Price Sport, Mr Price Home, Miladys, Sheet Street and Mr Price Group Financial Services. Our company’s success is based on its people while its core values - PASSION, VALUE & PARTNERSHIP set us apart from the rest!

Closing date: Not indicated in advert

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