About this role
Role & Responsibilities: Job Definition (Key Purpose of the Job):
Thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong proficiency in excel with strong business acumen, and will play a key role in optimizing sales, forecasting inventory needs, and identifying opportunities to maximize growth.
Lead & own inventory management strategies, including allocation, replenishment, consolidation, store capacity and product life cycle management to maximize sales, margin and inventory targets.
Allocator Key Result Areas:
• Identify, develop and implement process improvement opportunities to deliver efficiencies and making critical decisions that directly impact commercial performance. • Collaborate and share insights to inventory management team & commercial team in formulating in-season inventory strategies • Provide data driven recommendations & analytics to optimize multi-channel inventory and maximize channel sales at SKU level. • Manage system setting for markdown and promotion • Analyze sales and product performance at both store and cluster level, provide support and input to the build.
Channel Planner Key Result Areas:
• Own and Drive pre-season merchandise financial plans, open to buy, flow planning, in-season forecast and in season management including promotional/markdown activity. • Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-thru assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame • Developing the seasonal product flow plan in collaboration with Merchandising and Buying function • Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process • Identifying weekly MTG YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team • Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk. • Consistently monitoring the business through analytics and identifying actions to achieve the key performance metrics.
Competency Requirements:
• Advance understanding retail mathematics and Open to Buy • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments • Good communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal • Entrepreneurship – an ability to make decisions and take calculated risks • Strong organization and planning skills; ability to deliver results to a process and timeline • Ability to turn data and analytics into information to inform and influence decision-making • Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams • Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior • Flexibility to change business process, way of working. • Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement(goal-oriented)
List down specific set of functional skills required to perform in this role
• MS Office (Excel /PowerPoint) • VF system (SAP, Bi, etc) & Tools (Tableau) adoption
Experience Minimum Relevant Experience: At least 3-5 years related experience
Academic Qualifications Minimum Degree Held: Bachelor Subject Expert In: Mathematic/Business/Statistical analysis/Apparel Certifications Required: N/A
Language Proficiency: Fluent in: Japanese / English
Specific Working Conditions Frequency of Travel: 10%
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