Is Merchandise Planner actually your fit?

A 15-minute focused check — only the assessments that actually predict success in this role. No fluff, no full battery.

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Merchandise Planner

Operations

Merchandise Planners in India own the numerical backbone of retail buying — pre-season OTB (Open-to-Buy) budgets, in-season allocation and replenishment, markdown optimization, and post-season sell-through forensics. Unlike the Fashion Merchandiser who curates range and negotiates vendors, the Merchandise Planner is algorithm-and-model-first: running demand forecasting tools (JDA/Blue Yonder, RELEX), building store-cluster OTB matrices, tracking GMROI, WOS, and ASP daily, and flagging inventory risk before it becomes a write-down. The role spans fashion (Reliance Retail, Aditya Birla Fashion, Shoppers Stop, Lifestyle, Westside/Tata), electronics (Croma), grocery, and e-commerce (Myntra, Nykaa) — any Indian retailer managing multi-SKU inventory at scale. Entry paths run through NIFT/MBA with strong quantitative aptitude, and candidates from engineering or supply chain increasingly enter through analytics roles.

What you'll do

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Career Interests
7 min
Tells us if the day-to-day activities of this role energize you.
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Personality Profile
8 min
Reveals whether the working style this role demands fits how you naturally show up.

What you'll get — free

A clear fit verdict for Merchandise Planner — strong, good, worth exploring, or stretch.
The 2-3 reasons it fits (or doesn't), based on what this role actually demands.
An honest signal on whether to keep exploring this path or look elsewhere.

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Career Interests

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