Merchandise Planner - Print Copy Center, and Art & Craft

As a Merchandise Planner at the Warehouse Stationary, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring financial rigour, commercial effectiveness and category growth. Partnering closely with our buying and supply chain teams, you’ll build robust commercial and assortment plans, manage OTB with precision, and ensure our budgets are delivering strong return. You’ll diagnose issues, provide clear solutions, and consistently analyse category performance to drive improvements.

This is a dynamic role where pace, accuracy, and energy are essential. You’ll enter a highly communicative, ambitious team that thrives on collaboration, while bringing your own diligence and commercial mindset to help us deliver for our customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partnering with Buyers to create robust assortment plans and manage OTB

• Setting budgets and delivering financially accurate forecasts

• Driving financial planning and building category growth strategies

• Analysing product performance, diagnosing issues, and identifying consistent solutions

• Optimising stock-flow and product lifecycle to maximise ROI

• Forecasting demand, including the impacts of promotions and seasonal trends

• Turning data into actionable insights and clear commercial storytelling

• Communicating strategies and recommendations across stakeholders