Merchandise Allocation Specialist

2 weeks ago

Shanghai, Shanghai, China Adidas Full time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Merchandise Allocation Specialist to join our team at Adidas. As a key member of our retail allocation team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing allocation strategies to maximize product usage and drive business results.

Key Responsibilities:

Planning

  • Develop and align weekly, monthly, and yearly merchandise demand plans to achieve sales and inventory targets.
  • Drive replenishment planning forecasts to maximize business opportunities and manage workflow downstream with stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with planning teams to align inventory demand forecasts based on inventory and sales targets.
  • Define business opportunities through markdowns, promotions, and manage stock on hand at store level.

Allocation

  • Support the manager in managing the whole allocation cycle from creating sales orders to collaborating with SCM teams on schedules and releasing products.
  • Participate in building allocation strategies for new buys and excess inventory through automatic replenishment systems and parameter settings to manage store capacity and product productivity.
  • Manage weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting and drive action plans proactively from promotions, markdowns, inventories, sales, and week covers prospective under brands, product types, and seasonality.
  • Collaborate with operations and SCM teams on product delivery, including scheduling and capacity management in both warehouses and stores.

Processes

  • Understand retail KPIs and targets, growth strategies, related policies, and processes.
  • Monitor data compliance, identify issues, and propose solutions.
  • Proactively work with stakeholders to drive best practices.
  • Concurrently review processes and necessary enhancements to support business growth in terms of qualitative deliverables in the factory outlet team.

Key Relationships:

OMB Planning, Inline Buying, Operations, SCM, VM, Marketing, etc.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Good communication skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Learning and self-development.
  • Results-oriented.
  • Products and merchandising knowledge.

Requisite Education, Experience, and Other Skills:

  • 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.

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