Allocations Manager Job in Bensalem 19020, Pennsylvania US
Fashion Bug has an exciting opportunity for an Allocations Manager to lead and develop the Allocation, Replenishment, Assortment Analyst team partnering with Planning and Merchandising to maximize our inventory investment to meet store demand, sales, and profitability. He/She will identify and implement process improvment to drive 'best in class' quality of allocation, replenisment, and analysis.
The Allocations Manager develop the skills of the Analyst team to become future planners and/or merchants of our company.
Role Responsibilities include:
Manage and support the Allocation Analysts in the daily allocation operations from hindsight to assortment plans to store class plans to allocation strategy, execution and analysis partnering with our merchants, planners, and company leaders.
Guide and lead team to work with merchants and planners to develop Allocation Strategies to call out opportunities and best position our inventory investment including focus on E Commerce and regional store cluster trends and distortions.
Train and develop the Allocation, Replenishment, Assortment Analysts in business process and systems expertise to grow our sales and profit..
Guide Assortment Analysts to select the appropriate historical data criteria, partnering with merchants and planners, for Choice Count, Assortment, Size Profiles, and PO pack optimization.
Partner with merchants, planners, replenishment analysts to recommend the replenishment model stock levels to meet year round inventory financial targets and in stock goals.
Manage the Replenishment Commit and On Order process ensuring replenishment projections are in line with current sales trend and future business financial plan and does not result in over stock/over buy.
Collaborate with Regional and District leaders on store initiatives to drive sales and profit.
Partner with Supply Chain, Merchandise Operations, and merchants on Weekly Flow and PO and Pack Optimization.
Provide systems administration to support user functionality of our tools: Arthur Allocation, E3 Replenishment, MMS, SAS Size Profiling, Pack Tool, and various vertical templates.
Impact to open position include missed sales opportunity, inaccurate inventory position, inaccurate replenishment models/orders all negatively impacting sales, inventory, margin, and turn.