Allocator, Kate Spade SEA (1-year Contract)
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- Manage end-to-end tracking if shipments, ensuring timely delivery from DC to stores by communicating with global, logistic, 3rd party vendor and cross-functional teams.
- Manage & communicate floor set delivery time & action calendar by country.
- Maintain and enhance master data accuracy.
- Allocate appropriate monthly floor set deliveries, weekly STS and replenishment to achieve sales and inventory turn goals. Review market rebalancing monthly to optimize inventory efficiency.
- Analyze store performance weekly, by department, style, region and volume cluster and present weekly/monthly recaps and align with team on recommended actions.
- Collaborate with merchandising team during monthly allocation meetings and present allocation strategy with financial data to support recommendation.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure allocations are aligned with overall strategies.
- Develop knowledge of store attributes/performance through data analysis, field communication (particularly with Retail Managers and Store Leaders) and merchandising discussions.
- Develop, maintain & update appropriate allocation tools & templates.
- Responsible for driving eCommerce growth in SEA across third-party and brand-owned sites
- Maintain most updated inventory for all eCommerce platforms in SG and MY.
- Partner closely with Planner and Merchandisers to drive overall sales and product performance, leveraging data and knowledge of local customer/market/channel needs.
- Strategize channel growth by identifying and growing priority categories (and platforms), while optimizing penetration plans for other categories
- Work closely with digital marketing team on participation in major online campaigns and key promotions, to ensure there is sufficient inventory to support sales targets.
- Weekly/monthly recaps and align with team on recommended actions.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- 1+ years' experience in allocation for a vertical retailer, preferably from international retail brands
- Strong communication/multi-tasking skills
- Ability to work cross functionally in a collaborative environment
- Strong analytical/mathematical skills - retail math experience a plus
- Intermediate to advanced excel skills
- Detail oriented
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Manage end-to-end tracking if shipments, ensuring timely delivery from DC to stores by communicating with global, logistic, 3rd party vendor and cross-functional teams.
- Manage & communicate floor set delivery time & action calendar by country.
- Maintain and enhance master data accuracy.
- Allocate appropriate monthly floor set deliveries, weekly STS and replenishment to achieve sales and inventory turn goals. Review market rebalancing monthly to optimize inventory efficiency.
- Analyze store performance weekly, by department, style, region and volume cluster and present weekly/monthly recaps and align with team on recommended actions.
- Collaborate with merchandising team during monthly allocation meetings and present allocation strategy with financial data to support recommendation.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure allocations are aligned with overall strategies.
- Develop knowledge of store attributes/performance through data analysis, field communication (particularly with Retail Managers and Store Leaders) and merchandising discussions.
- Develop, maintain & update appropriate allocation tools & templates.
- Responsible for driving eCommerce growth in SEA across third-party and brand-owned sites
- Maintain most updated inventory for all eCommerce platforms in SG and MY.
- Partner closely with Planner and Merchandisers to drive overall sales and product performance, leveraging data and knowledge of local customer/market/channel needs.
- Strategize channel growth by identifying and growing priority categories (and platforms), while optimizing penetration plans for other categories
- Work closely with digital marketing team on participation in major online campaigns and key promotions, to ensure there is sufficient inventory to support sales targets.
- Weekly/monthly recaps and align with team on recommended actions.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- 1+ years' experience in allocation for a vertical retailer, preferably from international retail brands
- Strong communication/multi-tasking skills
- Ability to work cross functionally in a collaborative environment
- Strong analytical/mathematical skills - retail math experience a plus
- Intermediate to advanced excel skills
- Detail oriented
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.