Merchandise Planner Resume

Merchandise planners are the main players in purchasing environment of Retail Industry. It is high profile action which includes sales related financial seasonal plannings, levels of stock, production needs and management of buy relative to intended levels of for example color, fabric and store/branch volumes.

These planners investigate and estimate trends fiscally, as well as the product trends, through utilization of the computerized systems. Merchandise planners direct and manage all activities of the distribution staff which involves evaluating performance by the products at branch and operating available stock.

Merchandise planners communicate directly with the fashion purchaser, senior management, producers and operational staffs.

Merchandise planners should have industrial talents, business orientation, superior people skills and cool nature. They should be highly confident, numerate, determined and have the enquiring mind. They can work at any retail industry.

The sample merchandise planner resume will help you to build your own resume for applying to the job of merchandise planner.

Sample Merchandise Planner Resume

Richard Anderson
1234, West 67 Street,
Carlisle, MA 01741,
(123)-456 7890.

Experience History:

Business Consultant (2007 - present)
Slalom consult Company, San Francisco, California

Assisted main United States furnitures and home wares retailer analysis their blueprint and sourcing business procedures and evaluate and choose s/f to change their present applications.
Select vendors included Eqos, TradeStone and PTC.

Product Manager (2006 - 2007)
Quantum Retail company, Los Angeles, California

Developed the procedures and the product designs for new launch of Inventory Optimization, Ordering, Forecasting, Allocation and replacement s/f solutions, which included investigating existing replenishment business methods at main United States music instruments and accessories retailer.

Independent Consultant (2005 - 2006)
Rep, SA

Done volunteer work for company, non-profit business focused on assisted the business owners to apply the Christian principles in businesses.
Worked the marketing and the business consulting services in SA and US. Also carried out paid consulting service with SA retailer, assisting them build up strategies for an enlarging their business to comprise conference facilities.

Manager (1996 - 2004)
Calenture, Cape Town, SA

Handled process design and execution of assortment plannings solution at SA branch store retailer, utilizing Makoro planning solution of IBM (known as Plan-It).
Responsibilities included daily project management, process designing, testing, training developments, training delivery, and post-execution user support.

Education:

University of Cape Town, South Africa
B.Sc. (Computer Science and Maths), 1986 - 1989

Applications:
Specialist In:

Retek's Merchandise Financial Planning
i2 TMMP, previously Makoro for Merchandise Plannings
Quantum Retail's Q-solution (forecasting, inventory optimization ordering, allocation)
MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
MS Visio & Projects
Lotus Notes, SmartSuite

Experience With:

TradeStones (Sourcing result)
Eqos (Sourcing result)
Oracle's RPAS plannings solution
I2's TM Allocation
JDA Arthur Plannings
COBOL (2-year experience)