Merchandise Analyst - Ralph Lauren
Role Overview
Support commercial performance through data-led merchandise planning, OTB management, allocation, and in-season optimization.
Partner with Buying, Merchandising, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing to plan products, quantities, prices, and store placement against financial and inventory targets.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Support commercial performance through data-led merchandise planning, OTB management, allocation, and in-season optimization.
Partner with Buying, Merchandising, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing to plan products, quantities, prices, and store placement against financial and inventory targets.
Planning and trading
- Support pre-season merchandise strategies and OTB planning aligned with sales, margin, sell-through, and inventory targets.
- Build option plans and space plans to optimize assortment depth and store productivity.
- Deliver pre-season and in-season analysis for buy sign-off, milestone reviews, and trading decisions.
- Monitor sales, stock, OTB, margins, sell-through, inventory cover, and productivity KPIs.
- Drive replenishment, allocation, stock balancing, and fast- or slow-mover actions.
- Develop allocation and replenishment strategies to reduce stockouts and ageing inventory.
Reporting and performance improvement
- Partner with Buying and Retail teams to prioritize budgets and execute buying strategies.
- Support pricing, markdown, promotional, and clearance analysis to improve margin, inventory turnover, and ROI.
- Prepare weekly and monthly performance reports with insights, risks, and corrective actions for senior management and HQ.
- Conduct market and competitor analysis to inform assortment planning, pricing, and future buys.
- Support online merchandising performance, pricing, and promotional strategies.
- Contribute to improving planning systems, tools, KPIs, dashboards, and forecasting accuracy; reduce manual reporting.
- Assist with annual and seasonal sales forecasts, discount strategies, and margin targets.
- Support feasibility studies and new merchandise planning initiatives.
Your profile
- Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent.
- 3–5 years of experience in retail analysis, planning, merchandising, buying, and inventory management.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with proficiency in data analysis and reporting.
- Proficiency in Excel and other reporting tools.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
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