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About the Role
Join the Inventory Management team to bring the company's financial strategy to life by managing its largest financial asset: the product. Drive success in product categories by creating financial roadmaps aligned with brand strategy and customer needs. Utilize qualitative and quantitative skills in a fashion retail environment, with a focus on forecasting, financial planning, innovation, and customer experience while exceeding financial targets. Strong analytical, storytelling, and collaborative skills are essential.
Responsibilities
- Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division and department.
- Collaborate with Merchandising to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy aligning future financial and product opportunities.
- Create preseason sales, gross margin, and inventory plans by division and department to support product strategies.
- Reconcile top-down to bottom-up division/department plans.
- Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan and historical data, and forecast in-season sales and inventories weekly, monthly, and quarterly.
- Manage inventory from PO creation to Distribution Center arrival, including receipt reconciliation, purchase order tracking, and size/pack management.
- Identify and resolve purchase order, receipt, and inventory flow discrepancies in partnership with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time product availability.
- Develop, collaborate, and maintain effective working relationships with cross-functional teams (Merchandising, Visual, Production, Allocation, and Planning).
Requirements
- Must love Excel, have strong technical skills, and be systems savvy.
- Believe in the Power of Team; build constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners.
- Possess strong business acumen and strategic agility, able to handle many projects simultaneously while effectively prioritizing workload.
- Demonstrate strong listening, written, and oral communication skills, able to present ideas and directions that rally others to action.
Skills
- Excel
- Technical skills
- Systems savvy
- Analytical skills
- Storytelling skills
- Forecasting
- Financial planning
- Communication skills
- Collaboration