Allocation Analyst Jobs

Department: Merchandising – JD Sports

Location: Vancouver

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

JD Sports is a sports-fashion retail company with the incentive to inspire the emerging generation of globally minded consumers through a connection to the universal culture of sport, music and fashion. Established in 1981, the JD Group is a leading global omnichannel retailer of Sports, Fashion, and Outdoor brands. With our retail stores expanding and evolving all throughout Canada, The Group is continuously finding and developing talent that adds to the inclusive and diverse work culture. JD continuously and successfully sets the global standard for retail experience best through the unique delivery of the world’s most authentic brands to the market. Our commitment to showcasing brands in a premium environment and stores remain a key part of the JD strategy.

The Role:

As an Allocation Analyst, you are responsible for managing the allocations JD Sports. Through the use of daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports, you will develop weekly allocation plans, assortment plans to build and maintain inventory stock. Through partnership with management, you will ensure timely, effective allocations that support the needs of the stores and the business.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Executes the buyer and planner’s merchandising strategies in store through allocations and replenishment.
• Replenish inventory to stores based on sales trends, anticipating demand to ensure stores capitalize on opportunities.
• Collaborate with buyers and planners to create and implement exit strategies that maximize profit and ensure inventory turn targets are met.
• Incorporate marketing efforts into weekly allocations and replenishment activities to ensure maximum impact and capture sales opportunities.
• Monitor inventory levels by age of inventory, top sellers, and brand to quickly identify OTB opportunities.
• Optimize option counts and inventory levels in store and warehouse to meet or exceed sales, margin while maintaining option and inventory unit capacity.
• Work closely with buyers and planners to capitalize on these opportunities.
• Allocate new products to stores on time, ensuring a premium consumer experience with complete size runs and depth available.
• Create tools and ad-hoc reports to manage allocation processes effectively and efficiently.
• Support planner as needed with additional analysis.
• Partner with visual merchandising to ensure standards of excellence are met in store by keeping products in stock.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed:

• Jesta experience is an asset.
• Good business analytical skills and the ability to understand and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to aid in effective decision-making; Strong problem solving skills
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of inventory planning is an asset.
• 2-3 years allocations experience at either a vertical or multi-brand retailer.
• Intermediate computer skills including MS Office applications - Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook
• Interpersonal abilities to perform effectively in a collaborative and team-oriented environment, where partnering with others and building strong working relationships are critical; Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working in an office is an asset.
• Very strong communication skills: oral, visual, written.

The Perks:

To match our culture, focused on creativity, innovation and love for fashion, we offer our employees unique benefits such as product discounts, learning & development allowance & social events!