INVENTORY MERCHANDISER & ALLOCATION PLANNER
Core
Own the weekly inventory allocation, replenishment, transfer, and capacity planning process to ensure the right stock is in the right location at the right time for a multi-store fashion retailer and its ecommerce channel.
Role type
Senior Inventory Merchandiser & Allocation Planner
Builds
Stock allocation plans, replenishment schedules, inter-store transfer recommendations, and capacity plans for physical stores and online.
Domain
Fashion retail / Apparel
Required skills
Multi-store stock allocation, replenishment ownership, assortment planning, store capacity planning, sell-through analysis, SKU-level availability management, Excel modeling (complex formulas, lookups, pivots), data interrogation, commercial merchandising judgement, omnichannel stock balancing.
Preferred skills
Fashion or apparel experience, experience with proprietary inventory models, AI tool usage for analysis and QA.
Technologies
Excel (advanced), proprietary inventory models, AI tools.
Responsibilities
Own initial stock allocation across stores and ecommerce; provide assortment and intake signals to Product/Buying; drive replenishment and identify fast-selling product needs; recommend inter-store stock transfers; manage store capacity planning; monitor size and SKU-level availability; analyse sell-through, stock turn, and ageing; maintain stock-action queues and track execution; operate and QA the existing inventory model; identify model exceptions and work to improve decision logic.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC