Allocation & Planning Manager, Handbags & Accessories
at Aldo Group
Montréal, QC, Canada -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 19 Jan, 2025 | Not Specified | 21 Oct, 2024 | N/A | Multi Cultural Environment,Excel,Merchandise Planning,Interpersonal Skills | No | No |
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Description:
EXPERIENCE
Not Specified
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