Category Planner

**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.

Our Operations team is responsible for securing and fulfilling omni availability to meet the customer’s needs. Operations team is 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. At C&A we are driven by our values, we love togetherness, treat each other with respect and encourage everyone to come up with new ideas. We care for your personal wellbeing and development. This is your chance to join us as Category Planner/Merchandise Planner

**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 top-down 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 fact-based insights and analytics.

**What you bring**:

- Minimum 3 years of experience in retail merchandise planning
- Fluent in business English, oral and written.
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Preferred: Good knowledge of Datawarehouse reporting
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Consumer Obsessed: passion for analysis to determine consumer demand from historical, market and trend data
- Strong self-organization, 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**:

- Career development and continuous learning opportunities within the company
- A positive working atmosphere where our different backgrounds and competences help us face challenges and find innovative solutions.
- An employee discount of 20%
- Flexible hybrid working options (2x per week remote)