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About the Role

This role acts as the primary link between product merchandising, commercial teams, and allocation functions, ensuring accurate stock planning, demand transparency, and efficient replenishment across markets. You will oversee allocation and inventory flows, support decision-making with data insights, and ensure the right products reach the right locations at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Act as a contact point and partner with Sales Market Commercial teams on stock and inventory topics to facilitate strong commercial execution.
• Drive transparency and consistency, and secure sharing of best practices across Sales Markets on product merchandising and commercial execution.
• Challenge Sales Markets’ bottom-up demand plans from a stock-level perspective.
• Support Sales Markets in setting and adjusting price maps to reflect local competition and stock positions.
• Forecasting of supply in relation to demand, sharing insights and corrective measures.
• Decide and provide Sales Markets articles for final sale/clearance, as well as for special campaigns per channel.
• Decide and provide markdowns (pricing) in collaboration with Inventory Optimization Leads and other inventory management measures.
• Follow up and forecast R&D for Sales Markets.
• Capture learnings from exit and liquidation cycles to inform future pre-season plannings/buying quantifications.
• Act as the key point of contact for assigned SMs and warehouses on all allocation, replenishment, and stock management topics.
• Follow up stock on Sales Market level and review stock-balancing scenarios within a Planning Market.
• Responsible for the initial allocation from warehouses to stores in line with Sales Market plans.
• Responsible for adjustments to replenishment speed and setting replenishment blocks or stops for seasonal stock/predictable demand.
• Set backstock list for articles that needs to be removed from the shopfloor/pick locations.
• Create transparency on incoming deliveries/stock status to SM Commercial teams and Store Managers through regular stock update reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or similar in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
• 2–4 years in product merchandising, retail planning, or commercial operations within retail, fashion, or FMCG.
• Solid understanding of retail and product merchandising processes.
• Able to interpret sell-through and stock reports to identify improvement areas.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills across Markets and Continent teams.
• Good command of Excel and interest in BI tools (e.g.; Power BI).
• Detail-oriented; ensures high data accuracy in article tracking and reporting.

Skills

• Product Merchandising
• Commercial Support
• Allocation
• Replenishment
• Stock Management
• Data Analysis
• Forecasting
• Excel
• Power BI

Location

• Toronto, Canada

Work Type

• On-site
• Salary
• Exempt

Experience Level

• 2-4 years

Education Level

• Bachelor's or Master's degree or similar in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field

Salary/Compensations

• $113,994

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Wellness and family support programs
• Company match 401k
• Paid leave programs
• Paid time off
• Community day to serve your local community
• Employee discount at H&M, & Other Stories, and COS

About the Company

• H&M is a values-driven organization, guided by its 7 unique values that have been part of its success story for over 75 years.
• Offers access to Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) for community and networking.
• An inclusive company where employees are encouraged to be themselves.
• Provides access to a large global talent community for career growth.
• Believes in supporting employee wellbeing.

Equal Opportunity

• Values diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability.