Allocator (Fixed Term Contract) - Watford, United Kingdom - Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren
Verified Company
Watford, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Position Overview

Essential Duties & Responsibilities


RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations/Financial

  • Produce packs for Monday trade meetings which include weekly sales and promotional Reports
  • Attend Key Meetings to understand season performance as well as forward strategies
  • Work within teams to formulate and implement strategies to help drive sales.
  • Ensure the financial success of a product group by allocating stock to stores to meet or exceed sales, gross profit, and inventory turn goals
  • Track and monitor Distribution Center (DC) and Store available inventory for the product group, maximising sales to stock ratios and turn
  • Execute the release of initial product distributions and in season replenishment to stores
  • Monitor and ensure full size availability of best sellers, Continuity lines and seasonal products in stores in order to maximise sell through
  • Work with cross functional teams to ensure timely and accurate execution of new store openings
  • Support planning teams with store, product and size analysis
  • Manage store communications through the system 'Retail Intelligence' to answer store call outs and as well as communicate promotional and mark down changes
  • Use systems including JDA, Microstrategy, Promo MD, and SAP

Communications/Relationships

  • Develop and maintain effective working relationships within crossfunctional team (stores, buying, planning, marketing, visual, etc.). In particular the planner and buyer in the team responsible for the product group
  • Communicate initial release and replenishment strategies within cross functional team
  • Participate in cross functional meetings, contributing input on distribution and/ or trading strategies
  • Compose and deliver key trading messages to the wider business.
  • Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge
  • Manage communication regarding inventory/replenishment with field contacts on a store by store basis if required
  • Store visits to gain insight to performance a and availability
  • Participate in Company initiatives as appropriate
Experience, Skills & Knowledge

  • Able to organize, prioritise tasks and manages time well in order to meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates logical analysis and problem solving skills
  • Demonstrates good listening, written and oral communication skills, effectively and clearly communicates
  • Able to build and maintain productive relationships within team environment
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