Merchandise Planning & Development Manager

The Merchandise Planning & Development Manager plays a pivotal role in connecting product strategy with commercial outcomes for Anko Global. This role is responsible for shaping and delivering integrated merchandise plans that drive sales, margin and inventory performance, while also helping to build scalable planning tools, processes and ways of working as Anko Global continues to grow internationally.

Requirements

• Develop and manage end to end merchandise plans that deliver agreed sales, margin, inventory and customer outcomes.
• Lead seasonal, in season and event planning, including forecasting, buy plans, OTB management and stock flow optimisation.
• Partner closely with Category Managers to support range architecture and assortment decisions aligned to customer value and commercial strategy.
• Support country teams with trading insights, identifying risks and opportunities and enabling timely actions such as markdowns and stock rebalancing.
• Build and embed consistent reporting and analysis to support decision making across markets, with a focus on sales, margin, availability and inventory productivity.
• Contribute to the development of the Anko Global merchandise planning playbook, leveraging knowledge of Kmart planning systems to establish scalable tools, processes and planning rhythms.
• Ensure data integrity across planning systems, including pricing, forecasts, hierarchies and product attributes, enabling high quality insights and reporting.