(Senior) Merchandise Planner (m/f/d) Permanent, full time, location NRW

ABOUT navabi

10 years into our e-commerce retail journey, we are striving to realize our potential and to help our customer, who have been neglected by a whole market for far too long, to express herself. 

We are sure we have the core ingredients: 

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   a team driven to pursue excellence that respects and cares for one another
   
   
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   a strong growth and profitability path for our business model
   
   
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   one of the most loyal customer bases in e-commerce
   
   

We are very meticulous about finding the right people. If during the recruiting process we see a mutual fit, we will do our utmost best to create a position that you can call your dream job. We will invest in your development and our mission is to support navabistas (that’s what we call ourselves) to consciously become the best version of themselves. 

YOUR PERSONAL MISSION AT NAVABI

As (

Senior) Merchandise Planner (m/f/d)

at navabi your personal mission is to create the right assortment strategy for the business’s success and to deliver accurate planning and in-season management.

YOUR NAVABI CHALLENGE

Assortment strategy 

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  Support your team in deriving the right assortment analysis and customer research & to come up with recommendations for a better assortment strategy. 
  
  
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  Work alongside our BI team and together dig deep into the data to support strategic decision-making. 
  
  
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  Elaborate on ad hoc C Level requests for assortment and product analysis. 
  
  

Planning and Forecasting

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  Help your team in creating a proper seasonal budget on various levels and deliver insights to the buying teams for their seasonal order management. 
  
  
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  Create, monitor, and revise the Open-to-Buy. 
  
  
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  Help navabi to identify the Big Bets for each season and invest in the right brands, product categories etc.
  
  
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  Create monthly re-forecasts and review with C levels to make sure we are on track. 
  
  

Inseason Management & Trading 

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  Review weekly top line analysis of KPIs regarding sales, stock levels, gross profit, and markdown costs.
  
  
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  Review analysis of stock levels and markdown costs and revise markdown costs based on business needs.
  
  
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  Optimise inventory through smart pricing and markdown strategies.
  
  
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  Review style flow and resulting OTB to achieve monthly forecasts, drive sales while minimising risks.
  
  
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  Establish processes for inseason topics such as reordering and NOS. 
  
  

WHAT EVERY NAVABISTA MUST BRING TO THE TABLE

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  A deep desire to constantly improve yourself both professionally, as well as personally through intentional learning. You strive to become your best version. 
  
  
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  The ability to self-manage & think independently. We don’t want to hire someone who doesn’t want to own their own destiny and needs to constantly be told what to do.
  
  
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  A kind and compassionate nature. Everyone is fighting a battle we don’t know anything about and we need people who are able to be compassionate despite challenges, while also being able to practice tough love when necessary. You generally spread fun at work! 
  
  
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  A passion and deep love for what you are doing. As one of the cornerstones of our culture, we see this deep passion and love for what we do. This sets free the energy and drive we need to build navabi as a successful company and amazing workplace!
  
  

WHAT COULD BE VALUABLE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

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  Analytical and abstract reasoning skills
  
  
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  An ability to work effectively with BI tools, and strong experience in working with excel 
  
  
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  Merchandising financials and profitability management know how
  
  
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  Ability to structure the merchandise planning team and experience in executing best practices
  
  
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  Good collaborative and communicative partner
  
  
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  Passionate about fashion and the customer
  
  
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  Absolute Hands-On mentality whilst being a capable strategist
  
  
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  Great Teamplayer and understanding how to build and grow a team
  
  
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  High affinity for software and systems
  
  
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  Fluent in German AND English
  
  
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  Preferably experience with women apparel and e-commerce businesses
  
  

WHAT WE OFFER

We are not the biggest fashion e-commerce company, but we have a fantastic work culture and an amazing team of people. We’re really proud to have been voted the best fashion-tech employer over the past years.

Some of the benefits waiting for you, are:

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  A unique and vibrant working culture
  
  
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  A diverse, international team with compassionate and inspiring colleagues from all over the planet
  
  
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  A successful & growing ecommerce business
  
  
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  Flexible working hours
  
  
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  Home office option
  
  
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  Self-managed teams and super flat hierarchies
  
  
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  Game nights
  
  
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  Parties and Events 
  
  
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  Individual strengths-based development plans and budgets
  
  
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  and many, many more…