# Senior Planner (Dubai)

ENVIRONMENT: A global Luxury Retailer seeks the expertise of a forward-thinking Senior Planner to join its high-performance team in Dubai. You will own merchandise financial planning and in-season performance management for assigned brands and categories. You will translate commercial strategy into seasonal budgets, assortment and range plans, open-to-buy controls, allocation decisions, and pricing actions. Through WSSI, post-season analysis, store grading, replenishment reviews, and weekly performance reporting, you will protect sales, margins, availability, and stock productivity. The role partners closely with Buyers and management to identify exceptions, reforecast plans, manage markdown exposure, and ensure product launches and replenishment reach stores and wholesale partners on time. Success means stronger plan accuracy, healthier forward cover, fewer stock-outs, improved sell through, and commercially disciplined inventory decisions. DUTIES: Own annual budgets, seasonal strategies, and open-to-buy plans across brand, department, class, sub-class, and item levels, aligning sales, margin, markdown, stock, inflow, and forward-cover targets with approved commercial strategy.

- **Id**: 3970514
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/datafin-senior-planner-dubai-2>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T11:35:25Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:35:25Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5072
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce

## Company

- **Id**: 4497034
- **Name**: Datafin
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/datafin>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T15:50:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 2
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T19:30:47Z

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