Associate, Buying (Allocations) - Value Channel

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Manage retail inventory flow and create store-specific distribution strategies to maximise store sales and SKU productivity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage inventory flow by brand, district, store, and assortment group to budget taking store size, climate, seasonality, capacity, etc. into consideration when making decisions.
• Proactively plan, react, communicate, and take appropriate action to meet and exceed sales and margin budgets.
• Assist with the implementation and management of store assortments through a strong partnership with buying team, using store clusters (to include store size, climate, seasonality, capacity, etc.) to maximize full price sell thru and turns.

• Analyse, monitor and recap core item performance and inventory levels on a weekly basis, to minimize out of stocks.

• Provide quantitative analysis to support planning, buying and store planning ...