Merchandise Planner

**WE ARE DENIM HEADS.**
We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA. At G-STAR, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow.

Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.

Join the denim heads making raw denim

**YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Understand the customer needs by off price channel and regions and uses this information to make considered commercial decisions on product level that positively impacts the profitability working closely together with our Retail team, global merchandising, allocation team and marketing team.
- Establish and monitor store capacity and inventory levels both for our outlet stores and Off-price online channel.
- Develop and maintain store clusters using store volume, profile, capacity and performance by gender/product group, seasonality and region.
- Translates the overall merchandising strategy to assortment strategy to determine the right product mix by channel, hereby focusing and analyzing on the right width vs breadth of the collection, maintain a close eye on the product mix and incorporating the physical space vs potential to sell of our stores.
- Determine the merchandise strategy per region of each of the channels (geography planning) to create an aligned multi-region assortment mix.
- Determine pre-season OTB by channel and closely align the product department into the right strategy to fulfill OTB for each of the channels.
- Monitors the critical in conjunction with our marketing team and global merchandise and allocation team. Ensuring that deadlines are met and potential problems are identified at line level. Clearly communicating to management impact on launch position.
- Constantly review performance to identify and potentialize emerging trends to avoid missed opportunities, closely cooperating with the merchandise planners for other channels and contributing to our weekly trading meetings.
- Forecast on monthly level on relevant KPI’s such as sales, margin, stock, OTB (WSSI).
- Leverage stock positions for our outlet channels to maximize sell out potential versus stock investment that positively impacts profitability.

**HERE'S WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE**:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related study field,
- Excellent skills in Excel (reporting and handling big data amounts, executing pivots and other analysis),
- Experience working with senior leadership, possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build strong relationships across the business
- Excellent retail math and analytical skills with a strong link to translate to product,
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions,
- Shows innovation by challenging existing processes and practices to drive the business forward,
- Strong communication and presentation skills, written and verbal in English

**HERE'S WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE**:
We recently moved into our state-of-the-art office in the vibrant city of **Valencia**. This could be your chance to play a pivotal role in shaping the future development of G-STAR in Spain

Beyond a competitive salary, working at G-STAR brings many other perks and exciting opportunities:

- A clothing budget to showcase your personal style while representing G-STAR,
- A fully paid private medical insurance,
- Flexibility to work from home up to 2 days per week, promoting a healthy work-life balance,
- Free access to leading learning and development platforms like Udemy and Goodhabitz.

**HERE'S WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT**:

- As a result, we can ensure equal opportunities for everyone who applies, by evaluating everyone based on objective, scientifically proven insights rather than gut feeling. As we value personal growth and transparency, we will make sure you receive your results on the games as well
- When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will get in touch with you and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our** first interview**.
- If this goes well, we might follow-up with a **business case** to present during a **second interview**.
- When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-STAR employee store.

Good luck