Allocation & Planning Manager, Handbags & Accessories

at  Aldo Group

Montréal, QC, Canada -

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Immediate19 Jan, 2025Not Specified21 Oct, 2024N/AMulti Cultural Environment,Excel,Merchandise Planning,Interpersonal SkillsNoNo
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Description:

EXPERIENCE

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Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Vice President of Planning & Allocation for Aldo North America & responsible for:

  • Owning planning & allocation strategy & execution for handbags & accessories across Canada & US.
  • Lead a team of planners & allocators to ensure the planning deliverables are done and approved in a timely manner and the allocation strategy is properly executed across our store fleet.
  • Owning planning tasks for the Handbag category.
  • Building the relationship with Buyers for both categories & countries and with Sales & Operations in Canada & US
  • Developing a product category expertise to partner closely with Buying in defining the right product blend, SKU budget per cluster, quantifying the buys, allocate & replenish timely & in the right quantity;
  • Lead category specific projects to optimize assortment and drive revenue growth
  • Owning inventory for the category in both countries & maximize its productivity
  • Working in close collaboration with the Project Team to ensure that the team is properly supported (process mapping, training & continuous improvement, reports, IT enhancements).

Management and coaching:

  • Lead a team of planner & allocators, organize their workload & help them on priority management.
  • Build a very strong partnership with Buying to maximize inventory profitability & store performance
  • Foster a results-driven culture & accountability on KPIs and results.
  • Develop team members by developing synergies between planners & allocators, building product expertise & strong store fleet knowledge.

Process and operations driven:

  • Manage all planning deliverables for the handbags category across both countries
  • Understand deeply the mandate of allocation & planning to be able to challenge planners & allocators
  • Identify continuous improvement opportunities & area of focus to feed the project team supporting us

Analysis:

  • Pilot the category by checking on a weekly, daily basis with health checks reports to ensure that allocations for the category are done timely to the right store & in the right quantity (initial allocation, replenishment, aged inventory, store inventory…) & planning deliverables are done timely & accurately
  • Ability to analyze our results with potential deep dive on some product / stores to build action plan for the category (promotion, re-balancing of units…)
  • Ad hoc analysis to support requests on the category performance from Buyers or NA leadership


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)

Retail Industry

IT Software - Other

Retail Management

Graduate

Proficient

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Montréal, QC, Canada