Channel Planner & Allocator (Vans)

Job description

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. Competency Requirements: Advance understanding retail mathematics and Open to Buy Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments Good communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal Entrepreneurship – an ability to make decisions and take calculated risks Strong organization and planning skills; ability to deliver results to a process and timeline Ability to turn data and analytics into information to inform and influence decision-making Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior Flexibility to change business process, way of working. Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement(goal-oriented) List down specific set of functional skills required to perform in this role MS Office (Excel /PowerPoint) VF system (SAP, Bi, etc) & Tools (Tableau) adoption Experience Minimum Relevant Experience: At least 3-5 years related experience Academic Qualifications Minimum Degree Held: Bachelor Subject Expert In: Mathematic/Business/Statistical analysis/Apparel Certifications Required: N/A Language Proficiency: Fluent in: Japanese / English Specific Working Conditions Frequency of Travel: 10% R-20260824-0084