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Ecommerce Planner

LexisNexis
Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
Full-time
AI tools:
Azure AI
GitHub Copilot

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

About the Role

We are looking for an e-commerce planner. In this role, you will be functioning as the strategic architect for online sales, driving campaigns by aligning business goals with marketing tactics to increase traffic, conversions, and customer retention. You will utilize a mix of data-driven insights and creative execution to manage campaigns across digital channels, ensuring a cohesive brand experience from the first ad impression to the final checkout

Responsibilities

* Demand Planning & Forecasting: Developing demand forecasts using historical sales, market trends, and product lifecycle analysis to ensure product availability.

* Inventory Optimization: Managing inventory flow, minimizing excess stock, and reducing stock-outs.

* Webmaster/Platform Management: Utilizing e-commerce integrated tools and platforms (e.g., Shopify) to manage product listings, which ensures that inventory levels are accurately reflected on the front end.

* Data Analysis: Using advanced Excel (pivot tables, vlookups) and BI tools like Power BI to analyze variances, predict trends, and generate reports.

* Supply Chain Coordination: Aligning demand plans with purchasing, marketing, and logistics

Requirements

* Experience: 5–10 years of experience in demand planning, inventory management, or supply chain preferably within an e-commerce or retail environment.

* Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a related field.

* Technical Skills: Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP IBP, Anaplan) and e-commerce platforms. Magneto to be specific

* Retail Math: Familiarity with metrics such as Open-to-Buy (OTB), turnover, and sales per square foot.

* Marketing: Campaign management and execution.

* Project management: cross functional team collaboration

Applications go to the hiring team directly