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 decisions both pre-season and in-season.
• Analyse and monitor open to ship by department for each store.
• Ensure all product is shipped in compliance with product launch dates and new store opening dates.

• Monitor and update store capacity models according to sell thru trends and requirements.
• Evaluate adjustments to plans and allocations for performance trends and inventory levels.
• Create and maintain smooth product flows by development of outbound flow from the DC on specific timelines.

• Consolidate, analyse and communicate size and location-based performance, including sales/inventory comparisons, seasonality and marketing impacts. Utilize analysis to identify profit opportunities.
• Collaborate with operations, DC, planning and the BU to support strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities.
• React to in season trends by door to ensure that the models are being adjusted appropriately based on each store’s performance.

Key Relationships: 

•    Market Retail team including:

• Retail Back Office (RBO) team
• District Managers
• Store Managers and Store teams 
• Logistics
• Finance
• Go To Market (GTM) teams
• Supply Chain
   

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of and familiarity with Retail KPI’s.
• Strong analytical skills and a thorough understanding of retail math.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite and familiarity with merchandising systems/applications. 

• Advanced Excel skills, and a thorough understanding of macros, pivot tables, lookup formulas, formatting, etc.

• Familiarity accessing data from a database structure.
• SAP experience a plus
• Strong oral and written communication skills 

• Ability to understand and use financial data, such as fractions, percentages, ratios, gross margin, net sales, etc., to make decisions and influence outcomes.
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data and create reporting tools from data.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

• Think strategically, synthesize data, identify trends and recommend viable solutions.
• Work on a cross functional team and be a part of a team atmosphere.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: 

•    Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university.
•    Experience with Merchandising preferred.

What's on offer? 

A competitive base salary, bonus scheme and adidas employee benefits are also on offer to the successful candidate, these may include: 

• Remote Working Options
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Parental Benefits 
• Generous Employee Discount

How do I apply? 

• Press the "Apply" button and follow the instructions
• You will be required to fill out the online applications forms, and attach a copy of your resume and cover letter which addresses all of the above candidate requirements
• Please note that due to high volume of applications adidas receives, we will be unable to respond to all individual enquiries.