Retail Planner

Thank you for your interest in joining our team Qurate Retail Group comprises six leading retail brands - QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road® - all dedicated to providing a more human way to shop. Qurate Retail Group is the largest player in video commerce ("vCommerce"), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms.

The Opportunity

Join our Merchandising team in Brugherio (MB), we are looking for a “Planner (Fashion)” - maternity cover full time role.

In this role you will act as a liaison between Buyers (Fashion category) and Broadcasters, ensuring the long-term profitability of airtime and products and maximizing sales opportunities in the short term.

This will involve in-depth demand and sales analysis to determine the optimum strategy for Brands/products implementing them on all our platforms in order to achieve company Sales, Inventory and Margins targets.

Who We Are

QVC empowers shoppers with knowledge and shares insights in a lively, engaging way. We offer an ever-changing collection of familiar brands and fresh new products - from home and fashion to beauty, electronics - and we connect shoppers to interesting personalities, engaging stories and award-winning customer service. Worldwide, QVC reaches more than 200 million homes via our 12 broadcast networks and reaches millions more via multiple streaming services, websites, mobile apps and social pages. In 2021, QVC International served 4.7 million customers and has more than 7,000 team members in the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Poland and China.

Your Impact

Reporting to the Planning Manager your main responsibilities will be:
Maximizing Sales & Margins:
- Strategize items to maximize sales & margins on all the QVC platforms.- Identify opportunities including pricing promo, installment payments and free shipping.- Monitor and review sales performance.- Manage Fashion and cross category Multiplatform campaigns.- Partner with Buying to analyze business and develop short and mid-term strategic plans.

Stock Management- Manage and action overall inventory to assigned goal.- Analyze item performances and determine next actions such as re-orders, promotions and return to vendor.- Identify opportunities within category assortment based on sales trends and gaps in the inventory.

Reporting- Partner with Buying and Commerce Platforms to forecast, plan and recap campaigns.- Forecast with high accuracy sales and inventory providing information for the open to buy process.- Build and explore/understand reports to get insights in order to update Brand/product strategy during the year.

What you bring- At least 1-2 years experience in a similar role.- Experience of being responsible for a product area and stock management.- Excellent knowledge of Excel.- Fluency in Italian and English is a must.- Ability to work in a dynamic
- collaborative environment.- Strong analytical skills.

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If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, it’s so you. If you’re excited about retail, fashion, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate

flexible working options, our Qurated community

, where intentional connections matter and a company committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation and great benefits, employee assistance/wellbeing programmes, and much more. With friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers, working with us - it’s so you

for assistance. QVC UK is a Disability Confident employer and operates a

Guaranteed Interview Scheme