Job Description
Job Title: Planning Assistant
Location: Central London (Fully onsite)
Contract Length: 16/02/2026 to 29/05/2026
Payrate: £111 to £125 PAYE OR £150 to £169 UMBRELLA - depending on experience
Hours: 37.5/week
RESPONSIBILITIES
Replenishment Operational Management
They will be responsible for:
- Assessing the Global Replenishment forecasts for their Division/Areas, and creating a culture of accountability for forecast accuracy
- Maintaining the Global board line cards for Replenishment items and ensuring adherence to the Replenishment monthly critical path
- Collaborating with a designated Region to identify and maximize opportunities in Replenishment products
- Determining long range forecasting to support some key vendor strategies
- Assisting in the Global Single Pool of Inventory, including forecasting future procurement by size and weekly Single Pool Stock allocations to regional contracts
- Accountable for communication to the Regions on weekly allocation and stock drops
- Partnering with Region to define optimal A&R parameters, driving global alignment, championing a unique relationship with an assigned Region whilst covering their product areas for all.
- Alongside Planner, responsible for assessing the Global Replenishment line cards and ensuring adherence to global Weeks of Cover targets for both store and hub
- Alongside Planner, responsible for driving the Global Replenishment Buy process across all lines actualising against seasonal plans
- Assists in preparation of insightful commercial analyses to highlight missed opportunities and hindsight for future collection guidance / development particularly with respect for regional ranging
- Assist other Replenishment Planners on coordinating regular free stock drops to optimize replenishment inventory
- Assisting in forecasting and planning Replenishment margin for Input into the Seasonal Plans
Global Line Card Management
- Responsible for maintaining parameters within Global Line Card across all Replenishment options, including addition and removals, seasonal set-up, link line management.
- Responsible to reviewing Replenishment sized procurement, drive SPI allocation to Regions
- Responsible for building and maintaining any necessary line card functionality to ensure optimum process and changes in business process.
- Responsible for reviewing trading and buy summaries across the line card which flag anomalies versus centrally defined Hub WOC, Mins and Maxes
- Responsible for updating Training documentation and driving ongoing training on Line cards across the regions.
- Responsible for maintain good working relationship with IT to ensure data inputs into the Replenishment Line Cards are sustainable and fit for
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
