Job Location

• Sandy, Utah
• Position is in-person and not remote

Job Overview

As a Merchandise Planner/Allocator you will be responsible for managing and optimizing in-store inventory levels to drive sales, gross margins, and overall store performance through the execution and formulation of effective allocation strategies.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Perform the sales allocation operations efficiently to ensure financial success by achieving sales and inventory targets and service levels.
• Coordinate with store personnel and inventory planner for assortment of needs, selection, and reallocations.
• Perform sales reviews, determine the purchase needs, prepare assortment plans for seasons and coordinate with inventory planning and merchandising teams to perform initial release and replenishments and maintain stock levels.
• Coordinate with different departments to implement launch of new stores, define initial inventory levels based on store grading, allocation strategies and assortment plans.
• Analyze the spreadsheet reports, size selling data to identify improvement opportunities and implement allocation strategies to maximize business.
• Develop store specific distribution plans based on the sales trends, seasonal needs of the store and prioritize the distributions using the Hot and Not information shared by staff.
• Coordinate with District and Regional Managers to inform them about the progress of the business at stores and address issues that improve the store level business.
• Recommend and implement innovative strategies that inspire the team to perform and manage the business efficiently.
• Perform the allocations on time to maintain the flow of merchandise and meet logistic requirements.
• Maintain good relationships with different departments to contribute on strategies, share best practices and improve better business knowledge.
• Maintain the flow of merchandise, address special delivery requests, and resolve any order issues and special requests in coordination with Indirect Sales Departments and Customer Service.
• Coordinate with the IT team to evaluate if the issues have been addressed by the proposed solution and audit the delivery status.
• Coordinate with Corporate Purchasing Dept to help in the allocation of orders and creation of delivery and ensure that it meets customer requirements and provide status reports of orders.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, required.
• Must be able to lift boxes up to 50lbs.
• Must be able to be on your feet up to six hours a day.
• Prior retail experience required; women's apparel preferred.