PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:
- Work with the team to achieve best allocation & replenishment plan for Retail business.
- Build up relationship with SCM team as well as own retail team by providing consistent and pertinent communication
- Ensure to take proactive action to achieve targets
Planning- Develop, align and implement weekly, monthly and yearly merchandise demand plan to achieve the sales and inventory target as well as weeks coverage to maximize product usage.
- Drive replenishment planning forecast to maximize the business opportunities and manage the workflow downstream with stakeholders.
- Collaborate with planning team to align the inventory demand forecast based on inventory and sales target.
- Define business opportunities through markdowns, promotion and manage stock on hand at store level.
- upport manager to manage the whole allocation cycle from creating sales orders, collaborating with SCM team on schedule and releasing products to driving the business results and liquidation plan
- Participate in building the allocation strategy in both new buy and excess inventory through automatic replenishment system and parameters setting in order to manage the store capacity and product’s productivities
- Manage weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting and drive action plans proactively from promotion, markdowns, inventories, sales & week covers prospective under brands, product types, seasonality’s aspect.
- Collaborate with operation and SCM team on product delivery including scheduling and capacity management in both warehouse and stores
Processes- Able to understand Retail KPI and targets, growth strategies, related policies and processes
- Monitor data compliance, identify issues and propose solutions
- Proactively work with stakeholders to drive the best practice
- Concurrently review process and necessary enhancement to support the growth of the business in term of qualitive deliverable in the factory outlet team
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
OMB Planning, Inline Buying,, VM, Marketing etc.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Good communicate skill
- Strong analytical and problem solving skill
- Learning and self-development
- Results oriented
- Products and merchandising knowledge
REQUISITE EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER SKILL
- University advanced degree
- 3-5 years’ experience in allocation or planning experience with recognized retail brands (fashion or FMCG)
- Prefer good Excel skills and ability to develop useful models/tools