Channel Planner & Allocator (Vans) - ASIA > JPN > Tokyo > Sumitomo Fudosan Harajuku Building Office | VFC Job

Role & Responsibilities:

Job Definition (Key Purpose of the Job):

Thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong proficiency in excel with strong business acumen, and will play a key role in optimizing sales, forecasting inventory needs, and identifying opportunities to maximize growth.

Lead & own inventory management strategies, including allocation, replenishment, consolidation, store capacity and product life cycle management to maximize sales, margin and inventory targets.

Allocator Key Result Areas:

• Identify, develop and implement process improvement opportunities to deliver efficiencies and making critical decisions that directly impact commercial performance.
• Collaborate and share insights to inventory management team & commercial team in formulating in-season inventory strategies 
• Provide data driven recommendations & analytics to optimize multi-channel inventory and maximize channel sales at SKU level.
• Manage system setting for markdown and promotion
• Analyze sales and product performance at both store and cluster level, provide support and input to the build.

Channel Planner Key Result Areas:

• Own and Drive pre-season merchandise financial plans, open to buy, flow planning, in-season forecast and in season management including promotional/markdown activity.
• Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-thru assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame
• Developing the seasonal product flow plan in collaboration with Merchandising and Buying function
• Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process
• Identifying weekly MTG YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team
• Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk.
• Consistently monitoring the business through analytics and identifying actions to achieve the key performance metrics.