Allocator

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze sales, inventory, and store performance to support allocation and replenishment decisions.
• Ensure stores have appropriate inventory levels based on sales trends, forecasts, assortment needs, and store capacity.
• Monitor inventory levels to identify stock shortages, excess inventory, and opportunities for improved inventory productivity.
• Support initial allocations, replenishment, product pushes, store transfers, and inventory consolidations.
• Review high-performing and high-turn styles to identify opportunities for maximizing sales and sell-through.
• Maintain allocation reporting, including ship-to-store summaries, store capacity, inbound inventory, replenishment, and inventory performance.
• Monitor inbound inventory and ensure product positioning supports business needs.
• Partner with Merchandise Planning and Buying teams to understand assortment strategies, inventory needs, and seasonal priorities.
• Work closely with Commercial teams to understand store performance and identify allocation opportunities.
• Support seasonal and in-season allocation strategies to maximize sales, sell-through, and inventory productivity.
• Partner cross-functionally with Planning, Buying, Commercial, Finance, and Visual Merchandising teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong comfort working with numbers and analyzing data.
• Strong logical and analytical thinking with the ability to work through problems step by step.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with spreadsheets and large datasets is preferred.
• Strong curiosity and a desire to understand the “why” behind business performance.
• Resourceful problem solver willing to ask questions, investigate issues, and work toward solutions.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and willing to take ownership and follow through.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to understand how inventory decisions impact sales, stores, and customers.
• Interest in fashion, retail, merchandising, planning, or allocation.
• Experience with planning or allocation systems such as Anaplan is a plus, but not required.