Assistant/Associate Analyst, Location Planning

Company Description
Job Description
This job is located at our APAC Home Office in Shanghai, China.

The Location Planning Analyst is a central corporate service role enabling the company to achieve strategic objectives and financial goals through global inventory strategies.

This role is the Center of Excellence for location planning, spearheading the development of strategic inventory processes, ensuring seamless coordination across regions and maintaining a global view of key inventory benchmarks.

The Location Planning Analyst will be working closely with the Supply Chain, Planning, Store Operations and Finance Teams to provide end to end strategic inventory alignment. This role requires a strategic mindset combined with a keen attention to detail and data accuracy. The ideal candidate will be a collaborative team player with a passion for problem-solving and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Develop and implement a comprehensive global inventory strategy aligned with the company's overall business objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align inventory goals with sales forecasts, delivery schedules, and omni-channel market demands.
• Drive accurate placement of inventory by region, DC, and store while maintaining company level KPIs
• Support the Stores and Store Operation teams through capacity modeling, offsite analysis, and strategy execution needs.
• Lead efforts to optimize inventory levels to meet customer demand while minimizing carrying costs and stockouts.
• Own the location level inventory plan in partnership with merchandise planning to ensure financial and service metrics are met.
• Work collectively with supply chain, visual merchandising, and testing to ensure inventory readiness for all promotions and events.
• Develop and implement inventory management strategies that accommodate end of life inventory management across all selling channels.
• Develop and implement assortment segmentation strategies based on product characteristics, demand patterns, and sales forecasts.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency of inventory management processes globally.
• Proactively identify potential risks to inventory management and develop mitigation strategies.
• Monitor inventory health across all locations and nodes and address aged or inefficient inventory.
• Travel to stores in the region and collaborate with local store teams on executing global/regional strategies.
• Assess productivity of inventory and ability to hit sell through targets.

What Do You Need To Bring?

• Bachelor's Degree in economics, finance, data analytics, data visualization or related field, or equivalent experience preferred
• 2-4 years experience in inventory planning / allocation / location planning within fashion industry
• Excellent math, organization, and time management skills
• Proficient in MS Office and Excel, Power BI
• Strong ability to handle and understand analytical data, with keen attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment with a focus on continuous improvement and process implementation
• Eagerness to creatively solve problems and drive business profitability and growth

Our Company
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) is a global retailer of five iconic, omnichannel lifestyle brands catering to the kid through millennial customer: Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie kids, Hollister, Gilly Hicks and Social Tourist. At A&F Co., we're here for our associates, customers and communities on the journey to being and becoming who they are – and because no journey is the same, we strive to create an inclusive culture, where everyone is free to share ideas.

Our Values
We lead with purpose and always put our people first, which is evidenced by our Great Place to Work Certification, as well as being a 2021 recipient of Fortune's Best Workplaces in Retail, and named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign for 16 consecutive years. We're proud to offer equitable compensation and benefits, including flexibility and competitive Paid Time Off, as well as education and engagement events, including various Associate Resource Groups, volunteer opportunities and additional time off to give back to our global communities.

What You'll Get
As an Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) associate, you'll be eligible to participate in a variety of benefit programs designed to fit you and your lifestyle. A&F is committed to providing simple, competitive, and comprehensive benefits that align with our Company's culture and values, but most importantly – with you We also provide competitive incentives to reward the commitment our associates have for moving our global business forward:

• Incentive bonus program
• Annual companywide review process
• Flexible spending accounts
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Associate assistance program
• Paid parental and adoption leave
• Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
• Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Mobile Stipend
• Paid time off & one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
• Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are "work from anywhere" days for most roles & six work from anywhere weeks per year)
• Seven associate wellness half days per year
• Merchandise discount on all of our brands
• Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
• Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
• Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU

Additional Information
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER