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Manager, Inventory Strategy, Brand
Fashion Industry Company
New York, NY, United States
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GENERAL SUMMARY:
The Inventory Strategy group designs, creates, and implements inventory and price optimization capabilities that enable Company Specialty to manage business in a localized manner throughout the product lifecycle. Projects are designed to create sustainable competitive advantages that generate significant financial return and enhance the customer experience.
The Manager is primarily responsible for providing research, analysis, and guidance in identifying, evaluating, and capturing strategic opportunities. He or she will own and manage full projects or parts of larger initiatives, including identification of key issues, work planning, analysis, development of conclusions, and presentation of findings.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Facilitate the development and implementation of supply chain / inventory management initiatives that support overall company and brand objectives.
• Own and manage analytic approach, forecasting, and measurement methodology for inventory management initiatives.
• Provide research, analysis, and leadership in identifying, evaluating, and resolving strategic opportunities.
• Prepare presentation documents and assist in presenting findings to all levels of management
• Serve as a liaison with brand functional teams (merchandising, planning, finance, information technology)
• Work with others to bring form / structure to ambiguous situations.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of industry trends to introduce continual process, tool and methodology improvements.
• Proactively surface and communicate business issues
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated hypothesis-driven problem solving orientation with exceptional ability to create structured analyses from disparate sources of information
• Experience with strategic and quantitative analysis - ability to gather and interpret data
• Strong research sources and modeling techniques
• Strong oral, written, and formal presentation skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas in simple ways to all levels of the organization
• Strong strategic thinking skills with ability to perform analysis at a low level of detail
• Execution and results focused, with emphasis on on-time delivery, ability to structure complex work streams and work independently and with teams
• Ability to structure project activities, resource allocation, timing, and interdependencies
• Ability to drive results across simultaneous projects under tight time pressures
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
• 5 to 7 years work experience required
• Excellent mathematical and statistical aptitude with experience in a non-academic environment required
• Experience in supply chain management / inventory management industry
• Experience developing and working with inventory optimization and/or forecasting approaches for the retail industry preferred
• BA/BS with emphasis on quantitative skills in economics, industrial engineering, business, mathematics