MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Executive daily work and develop project independently
- Provide independent subject matter expertise and analytical support to category decisions made by the Merchandising Organization. Typical analyses include but not limited to:
(1) External Marketplace and Competitor Analysis
(2) Internal Category Performance and Analysis
(3) Line Structure, Price point offerings and profitability
(4) Vendor / Brand offerings and profitability
(5) Key product attribute offerings and profitability
(6) Customer insight and basket attachment analytics
(7) Inventory analysis by store volumes or SKU velocity
(8) Geography and Clustering performance
(9) Execution performance tracking and assessment
(10) Online analytics for interconnected retail
- Understand the business context/product knowledge and provide standard set, deep dive and tailor-made review analytics and be accountable for accuracy, thoroughness, thought process, ability to manage timeliness under pressure, and deliver data-driven recommendations/insights
- Integrate multiple sources of data and place them into context of the review objectives
- Manage multiple projects and support PLRs event on-site or remotely independently
- Drive special projects, and develop Best Practice Sharing with team
- Complete other assignments from leaders or planners
POSITION PURPOSE
The Senior Assortment Planning Analyst will partner with Assortment Planners in the US primarily during Rapid Business Reviews (RBR), Product Line Reviews (PLR) and Category Management (CM) for a designated department, to drive analytical support during the review milestones from end to end and partner with the Merchandising Organization in developing go-forward category assortment strategy.
