Associate Inventory Planner - Clearance Optimization
Core
Allocating inbound purchase orders and managing inventory movement strategies for clearance merchandise, promotional buys, and discount products to ensure optimal store-level inventory integrity and support sales, margin, and turn goals.
Role type
Associate Inventory Planner (Clearance Optimization)
Builds
Inventory allocation plans and movement strategies for clearance and promotional merchandise
Domain
Retail / Sporting Goods
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Inventory allocation, purchase order splitting, backstock management, store inventory level monitoring, ad-hoc analysis, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Partnership with store operations, proactive inventory flow improvement
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Allocate inbound purchase orders of off-price opportunity buys, split purchase orders to achieve optimal store level inventory integrity, pull appropriate backstock quantities to maintain strong inventory productivity, maintain proper inventory levels by store locations to support sales and margin goals, ensure new stores are set with appropriate level of inventory, analyze and communicate product risks and opportunities to re-balance product flow, partner with Merchandise and Inventory Managers and Buyers to identify opportunities for merchandise allocation
Seniority
Associate, execution-focused IC