Allocation Planner
About The Position
The Allocation Planner is responsible for a diverse range of assignments, projects, and analytics to support preseason and in-season allocation strategies and initiatives for their assigned Regions/Stores/Product areas. This role will evaluate overall sales performance and emerging trends to recommend action for in-month receipt management. The Allocation Planner provides weekly visibility of current performance and trends to leadership. Additionally, the Allocation Planner researches and responds to product level inventory concerns from stores. The ideal candidate should demonstrate the ability to work independently to provide sound analytics, with the ability to draw and communicate conclusions and recommendations. Allocation Planners work on projects and tasks where analysis of situations or data requires a review of diverse factors. Allocation Planners must exercise judgment to determine appropriate action(s) to resolve a variety of issues and builds productive internal/external working relationships. In this role Analysts are developing their professional knowledge and expertise. The base salary range for this role is $70,310 – $97,450. The base salary range is dependent on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, qualifications, relevant education, certifications, seniority, and location. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards vary by position and location.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferred
- 1-2 years equivalent work experience
- Intermediate proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Efficient verbal and written communication skills
- Retail Math
- Ability to independently analyze data sets to solve problem and summarize recommendations
Nice To Haves
- Retail software experience, a plus (JDA or Other Allocation Software)
Responsibilities
- Analytics of Sales, Inventory and Receipt Management
- Support end of month inventory plan achievement and strategic initiatives for assigned Regions/Stores/Product areas.
- Monitor region and store inventory position in relation to sales trends
- Research and respond to store inventory concerns
- Execute and maintain Excel based reports/tools
- Perform ad hoc analysis as needed
- Support on-boarding of concepts with peers.
- Communication
- Drive timely and effective communication with internal and external business partners to inform/recommend allocation strategies and results
- Provide weekly communication to Allocation leadership of results and inventory opportunities/risks, providing recommended action needed to support changing trends
- Communicate conclusions and recommendations in a clear, straight forward, and concise format to business partners
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
