Category Planner

Vor 7 Tagen

Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland C&A Vollzeit

The future looks like you:

With more than 1,500 branches in 19 European countries, C&A is one of the leading fashion retailers in Europe.

C&A welcomes more than two million visitors to its stores every day and offers good quality fashion at reasonable prices for the whole family.


The purpose of the Operations function is to secure and fulfill omni availability to meet the customer's needs, accountable for the commercial planning of an assigned Category, in close collaboration with customer relevant merchandise offer in line with the respective Business Unit, Divisional and Corporate strategy.


This Category Planner (M/F/d) is with a 2 years Limited Contract.

Your responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement Financial Plan that drives the profitability and productivity of the collection, Forecast sales, intakes, margin and option productivity
  • Develop and manage the Buy Plan with rate of sale planning at option level based on historical data, considering expected demand and the importance of the option.
  • Ensure Big bets and key programs are fully potentialized and meet availability and sales plans
  • Reconcile and align the bottom up Buy Plan with the topdown Merchandise Financial Plan ensuring key financial parameters of sales, intakes, margin and option productivity by merchandise season
  • Forecast the Open To Buy to manage sales, inventory, margin and markdown by price type, merchandise season by category and market
  • Manage inventory to the business needs and creating inventory scorecard transparency for the Sales & Operations Planning meeting
  • Assess and analyze performance to drive business improvements on factbased insights and analytics.

What you bring:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Relevant experience in retail merchandise planning
  • Fluent in business English, oral and written.
  • Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Preferred: Good knowledge of Datawarehouse reporting
  • Consumer Obsessed: passion for analysis to determine consumer demand from historical, market and trend data
  • Strong selforganization, prioritization, and work structuring skills
  • Ability to synthesize big data sets and draw meaningful conclusions, complex topics in a simple and understandable way

What we offer:

  • An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment
  • A positive working atmosphere and a great team with an open feedback culture
  • Indepth introduction into C&A and your new role and countless learning opportunities via our C&A academy
  • Hybrid work model
  • An employee discount of 20%

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