Job Description
Role Summary Free People is looking for a Senior Allocator who will coach, train and support the allocation team to maximize sales and profitability through allocation and business analysis to achieve financial objectives.
Role Responsibilities - Meeting or exceeding sales and inventory goals
- Allocating for one or more product class
- Responsible for store sales and inventory plans for assigned merchant categories
- Analyzing sales to stock ratios and product flow management-new purchase order and back stock allocations
- Ensuring the right product is delivered to stores at the right time
- Managing a basics business; working with the planning team to maximize size level opportunity
- Preparing to line plan with style and sku count per store
- Working with cross functional partners on new store assortment
- Identifying opportunities and risks, recognizing trends by product category and attribute at the individual store and store group level
- Partnering with planning to run size and color selling analysis to place future size and color buys
- Collaborating with planning and buying to relate current store performance to impact upcoming buys
- Prepping for and participating in monthly reforecast, strategy, buy meetings, and division roll
- Creating and managing store plans
- Communicating with distribution center as necessary
- Partnering with the visual team and participating in weekly turnover meetings
- Communicating weekly with DM's about current business
- Collaborating with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge
Role Qualifications - Strong statistical analysis skills
- Excellent organizational, prioritizing and creative problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills
- Works well in teams
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
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