Allocation & Planning Manager, Handbags & Accessories

at  Aldo Group

EXPERIENCE

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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