Description:
The Sales & Range Planning Coordinator supports the recreational sales team in refining and administering range planning, sales projections, and forward order management. This role involves compiling and analysing sales data, managing key account and e-commerce administration, and ensuring accurate system updates. You will work closely with the sales, buying, and operations teams to optimise product availability, track sales performance, and enhance efficiency across multiple retail channels. This role plays a vital part in ensuring the sales team has accurate, up-to-date information to make strategic decisions.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Sales & Range Planning
Support recreational sales team in refining, documenting and administering the range planning process per brand as required (normally 6 monthly). Support recreational sales team pre-season range planning by gathering, organizing, and distributing necessary sales data. Sales Projections: Work closely with sales team in administering and obtaining sales projection data per brand and SKU from online platforms, chain retailers & / or key accounts who provide projections to inform expected sales performance. Forward/Advance Orders: Work with buying & sales in the creation of forward order templates to assist sales in gathering and consolidating pre-season orders from customers to facilitate accurate buying. Forward Order Management: Work with buying team and sales admin team to ensure orders are captured into ERP System accurately and timeously, stock availability aligns with demand and orders are delivered to customers efficiently.
Sales Reporting and Analysis
Compile and analyse sales data from e-tailers, chain retailers and independent retailers to track and report on monthly and annual sales performance relative to both annual and monthly channel specific targets and / or sales projection data. Assist in identifying sales trends and opportunities by preparing data-driven reports for decision-makers.
Key Account and E-Commerce Administration
Manage product listings, pricing, images, and descriptions on e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Takealot. Maintain accurate key customer spreadsheets for: tracking sales performance recoding and managing promotions monitoring stock levels by obtaining stock reports monthly. Identify stock gaps and potential range issues, highlight sales successes and communicate this to sales team to drive re-stock / refinement of product mix. Support the sales team with administrative tasks such as order management, invoicing, and follow-ups.
System Administration
Use internal systems such as Odoo