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The Lead Planner is responsible to manage and guide operational planning teams and ensure the use of standardized processes, tools and reports required to perform planning responsibilities and reach availability, sales, waste, working capital, margin, and profitability KPIs. The Lead Planner must also ensure effective integration and communication with all cross-functional teams and external stakeholders and drive their teams to contribute to and execute sales strategies and trade plans.Minimum requirements\nBCOM Logistics / Degree in Quantitative Analytics / Operational Research / Industrial Engineering / Applied Mathematics (RPL)\n3 + years Retail, Supply Chain or Planning Experience with at least 1 - 2 years PnP-specific experience\nSQL (Structured Query Language), Power BI and Access advantageous\nCompetencies\nAnalysis\nConceptual Thinking\nJudgement & Decision Making\nDrive\nFlexibility\nNetworking & Liaison\nOrganisational Awareness\nInfluencing\nVerbal & Written Communication\nBusiness Insights\nEnvironmental Scanning\nMonitoring\nStrategic Sales Plan\nEnsure compliance to T- planning processes (incl. promo/event planning)\nProvide guidance to teams on how to generate sales plans for each specific category\nWork with commercial buyers to achieve planning budgets and targets\nAttend meetings with commercial teams to agree forecast values at T-3\nPrepare figures for divisional sales planning meetings, sales forecast numbers at T-2\nEscalate significant differences between sales targets, commercial sales plan, and the retail sales forecast to Planning Manager\nTrack total category planning numbers and highlight risks (Forecast, Retail Forecast, Orders, Receipts, Sales)\nStrategic Operational Execution\nProvide guidance and strategic input to planners on how to execute sales plans for each specific sub-category\nEnsure the use of standardised planning and reporting tools for accurate sales planning and execution\nEnsure teams know when to influence forecast and that they are using the correct tools to accurately do so\nTrack total category KPI performance, highlight risks and identify and drive the implementation of opportunities within team\nEnsure all planners use the correct tools and reports to understand root cause on poor KPI performance and implement solutions that will proactively reduce/avoid returns.\nCategory Profitability\nProvide input on promo & pricing strategies based on category performance and annualization\nProvide input on range based on sales, waste, and profitability\nTrack and ensure Planners achieve KPI’s\nSupport maximized deal price purchases by ordering more stock for promo lines during the deal price period. Only for lines where applicable\nIdentify opportunities to increase category profitability by using a profit levers tool or something similar\nSupport Vendor Growth Hurdles and strategic Buy-ins (Category Profitability) by executing the plan provided by the planning line manager\nUnderstand the elements that contribute to improved category GP and work with commercial teams to achieve set targets\nWork with commercial and store teams to plan for the effective ordering and execution of service counter/in-store departments\nWork with commercial and logistics teams to implement ways of work that will drive increased franchisee buy-in participation\nStakeholder Engagement\nBuild & maintain good working relationship with all stakeholders\nInternal Stakeholders:\nCollaborate with required internal stakeholders to create accurate and realistic sales plans that reflect business, category and promotional strategies\nFollow the commercial integration rhythm as set by your line manager\nCommunicate sales plans to the SCP DC volume management team to ensure accurate DC volume planning and execution\nWork closely with the technical team to ensure the accurate maintenance of shelf life in SAP. 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