Manager - Planning Allocation - Retail

- Inventory Management: Ensuring balanced stock positions across stores by analyzing demand forecasts and merchandise projections, NSO's.

- Strategic Allocation: Making decisions to place the right products in the right stores at the right time to maximize sales and minimize markdowns, tracking allocations against actual dispatches.

- Collaboration: Working closely with buying, planning, and sourcing teams to align inventory with financial and sales objectives.

- Data Analysis: Reviewing sales trends, SKU productivity, and stock imbalances to refine allocation strategies, Identifying slow moving & fast moving SKU's to execute necessary inter-store transfers & Stock consolidation, fill rate.

- Team Leadership: Managing and training a team of merchandise analysts to execute allocation strategies effectively