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Replenishment planner
Pinkenba, 4008, Brisbane, Queensland
Full time
Posted 13/04/2025
Closes 27/04/2025
Created with a love for fashion, Petal and Pup was founded in 2014 with a focus on curating must-have trends for the Australian customer. With an Instagram account and a digital storefront combined with a passion for selecting the best, fashion forward styles, Petal and Pup quickly grew into a global online shopping destination.
Today, we have over 2 million followers across various social channels, customers in over 80 countries and operations spanning Australia and the USA. We are a brand that is leading the wave of next generation, socially native shopping experiences.
We are a people-centric culture building sincere relationships with our customers and our teams.
We Are Thoughtful
We Are Ambitious
We Are Easy to Love
We have operations in Brisbane, Australia and California, USA. We are looking for e-commerce, fashion and customer enthusiasts to join our growing team. Our digital first approach has shaped us to be innovators in our practices, technologies and partnerships.
If you are a problem solver, self-starter, optimist who loves collaborating and figuring things out, then we would love to connect with you!
About the Role
The Merchandise Replenishment Planner supports the overall business with the tactical responsibilities of analysing the sell-through of products, making data-driven decisions for replenishment, executing and tracking purchase orders from point of origin to warehouse, updating OTB, and preparing reports that help enable the buying team to make intelligent business decisions.
This is a 12 month parental leave contract, staring in approximately May 2025.
- Identify and purchase new & replenishment styles across multiple categories under the direction of the Director of Planning & Replenishment.
- All administrative tasks related to the accurate creation and maintenance of purchase orders for selected departments.
- Maintain your departments within 6-8 weeks of stock cover.
- Manage OTB weekly for your departments.
- Ensure all replenished items meet sizing requirements of AU 4-16, XS-XL and work with suppliers on adding additional sizes.
- Partner with leadership to create pre-season, item-level inventory and sales plans that align with product rankings, merchandising strategies, and tops-down financial goals.
- Increase margin for your departments by negotiating better costs with suppliers when placing replenishment orders.
- Spend full OTB each month, but not exceeding without leadership approval.
- Monthly closing stock on hand must have no more than 10% variance in excess of budget.
- Review top 20 sellers by region (US/AU) for departments each day to ensure no OOS on top sellers.
- Pull a monthly report of top overstock items for departments for markdowns.
- Maintain accurate IP tags for all products within your departments.
- Review high return rates for items in your department and make informed decisions about improving the quality to reduce the return rate or ceasing to carry the style (Permission from leadership on top sellers).
- Order 6-8 weeks of cover from the landing date accounting for a 3-week lead time from suppliers.
- Ensure all replenished items are being purchased x-works unless prior approval from leadership.
- Zero top repeat styles are sold out.
- Zero top repeat styles with more than 2 sizes sold out.
- Each department has a full sweep conducted weekly in line with other weekly goals.
- Monitor your on-order filter to ensure your cover is still adequate based on recent sales trends.
- Form a cover plan for Chinese New Year in partnership with leadership.
- Have 2 + years' experience as a planner/buyer
- Great data analysis skills
- Great communication and relationship building skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Know and love our brand & product, connecting with our customer
We care about our employees and have curated a benefit package that enriches our team's experience. At Petal and Pup we certainly love our work perks!
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Flexible Scheduling & Rostering Practices - We Work Around Your Availability (Unless Noted) - Amazing Employee Discount Program (50%)
- Company Paid Employee Assistance & Mental Health Plans (EAP)
- Positive Company Culture that Celebrates both Personal & Company Milestones
Petal & Pup offers you the chance to make a daily impact on a global business. We look forward to meeting you!
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Petal & Pup Pty., Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We're committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from all walks of life. Come join us, different makes us better.
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