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Manager, Store Planning and Allocation
True Religion
Manhattan Beach, CA, United States
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JOB TITLE: Manager, Store Planning and Allocation
IMMEDIATE MANAGER: Sr. Director of Planning and Allocation
DIRECT REPORTS: Allocation team
DIRECT REPORTS TITLES: Sr. Allocator/Allocator
JOB CLASSIFICATION: Exempt
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: N/A
LOCATION: Manhattan Beach, CA
THE PURPOSE:
The Manager of Allocation and Store Planning is responsible for directing, managing and monitoring the execution of product allocation to support company strategy and achieve inventory objectives.
THE ROLE (what you are accountable for)
• Store Planning
◦ Represent Store Planning point of view to all cross-functional and field business partners.
◦ Communicate and inform cross-functional partners of location based performance results, trends, opportunities and risks. Develop appropriate recommendations and influence actions to maximize sales.
◦ Develop market and store knowledge based on geography and customer attributes, field communication and historical store performance
◦ Develop accurate inventory flow forecasts that support business strategies
◦ Provide store insight to merchants and planners for creation of seasonal product strategies
• Allocation
◦ Execute allocation strategies to optimize inventory, including new store assortments and replenishments
◦ Recommend and execute exception management and size balancing activities to ensure customer demands are met
◦ Determine and standardize allocation best practices
◦ Ensure that product vision and plan is executed through optimal store allocation
◦ Execute data analysis, synthesize results and recommend solutions.
◦ Understand data flows and interfaces in multiple systems in order to successfully manage processes and uploads and provide support to downstream business partners
• General
◦ Evaluate and maximize system capabilities to further enhance allocation tools and effectiveness
◦ Establish and continually develop partnership with field to gain credibility and trust
◦ Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with multiple cross-functional teams
◦ Ability and willingness to learn new systems and become a technical expert on the team
◦ Train, develop and support allocation team
YOU ARE:
• Intellectually curious
• Self-motivated
• Team player
• Excellent time management skills
• Organized
• Ability to multi task
• Flexible
• Open minded
• Ability to think quickly and make decisions
• Passionate
• Fearless, Focused, Open and Fast!
REQUIRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
• Bachelors Degree
• Strong planning, store planning, and allocation skills and experience
• Ability to perform analysis at a low level of detail
• Knowledge of retail/wholesale product lifecycle
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
• BS with emphasis in finance, business and/or economics or 4 years experiance in a similar role.
• Experience working with JDA, Full Circle, Epicor, or Quantisense (Microsystem)