Assortment & Space Planning Analyst - Kenilworth Cape Town at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Job Advert Summary    

• To liaise with Commercial Divisions to create, analyse and implement customer category assortment strategies (assortment structure & ranges), and produce category planograms.

Minimum Requirements    

• Relevant Post graduate degree or diploma.
• Category Management experience.
• Advanced excel skills
• SAP Merchandise knowledge is an added advantage.
• Any Catman software knowledge is an added advantage.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Provide assistance and input on category assortment/cluster strategy, (Space; Region; Demographic), to the category buyer.
• Assist and provide input on category ranging decisions for determined assortments/clusters to the category buyer.
• Create category assortment projects for various categories using the relevant assortment software.
• Produce category planograms for store implementation.
• Conduct Impact analysis on ALL category assortments/clusters on Profit and Turnover.
• Conduct adhoc in-depth assortment and space analysis.

Competencies    

• The ability to analyse, understands and utilise detailed information from various sources, and draw conclusions.
• Affinity for numbers and comfortable with large data sets.
• To clearly convey insights in a clear and concise manner.
• To ensure appropriate use of standards, meet deadlines, follow up action points, monitoring mechanisms in order to exercise control over processes and quality.
• The ability to plan and co-ordinate a task/activity realistically.
• Can work under pressure, with a sense of urgency.