Allocator
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Job description

The Allocator is responsible for allocations for full-price and off-price stores in the US and Canada. They will work closely with the merchandise planning team, buying team and business leads to create builds, manual push needs and craft the total allocation strategy for the store business. They also need to ensure proper inventory management between the warehouse s and online business to ensure that the stock is in the right place to maximize sales.

Job duties

Create and maintain all allocation reporting including, but not limited to: Ship to store summaries, build re-caps, store capacity, in-bound tracker, high turn styles, core replenishment.

Assist Director of Planning, in partnership with business leads, to accurately ensure the right level of stock in all stores, aligned with budget and forecasted sales.

Work with Buying team to ensure the correct levels of inventory are being bought into at the beginning of the season.

Seasonally develop key allocation strategies and approaches to the business that will help drive sell through and top-side sales.

Partner closely with head of off-price business to push the right level of stock and assortment to these stores, to ensure the right balance and level of stock on hand.

Create in-season consolidations between markets and stores to maximize sales,

Key Cross functional partnership with Buying, Finance, business, Visual Merchandising.

Qualifications

Minimum of 1-3 years experience in Allocation, in both big and small door companies.

Strong cross-functional partnership skills, highly detail-oriented and organized

Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint expertise: must be able to analyze large volumes of data in excel and be able to distill analysis into digestible presentations

Four year college degree

Core Competancies

Initiative: Actively strives to achieve goals beyond the minimum level of performance. A self-starter who has the ability to work well without close supervision.

Mathematical: Must be proficient working with numbers to ensure correctness of date produced when compiling large volumes of data on a spreadsheet for analysis.

Analytical: Must be able to identify and react to business trends in various markets.

Organized: Must be able to develop a system that will enable you to gather and retrieve information quickly.

Communication: Able to communicate clearly and productively with various business partners to foster open communication and to establish good working relationships within the business.