Director, Allocation

Director, Allocation

The Director of Allocation is responsible for leading the Allocation Team and oversees the management and evolution of the allocation process, creating and executing effective inventory deployment strategies, and managing inventory levels to support financial plans. This leader is a pivotal partner to Buying, Planning, Field Operations, and DC leadership. This position supervises several direct reports in addition to owning allocation strategies for all product categories and managing special projects. A dynamic problem-solver with effective communication skills, ability to influence others, and adapt quickly with competing priorities will be critical to delivering the company's inventory productivity objectives.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement effective merchandise allocation strategies that align with organizational goals and objectives. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies, adjusting as necessary.
• Drive initiatives to maintain healthy instock levels on key items and effective management of inventory deployment (flow, weeks of supply, excess inventory).
• Lead the evolution, testing, and validation of allocation / replenishment calculations and logic that improves inventory productivity and business results.
• Develop, enhance, and manage analytics reporting to deliver actionable insights, drive key initiatives, and monitor KPI performance and trends.
• Pursue increased systems / process efficiencies to drive toward automation.
• Partners with store operations to address inventory needs and concerns at the store, region, or district level.
• Maintain and update training content for Allocation / Replenishment systems.
• Serve as a primary point of contact between IT, Merchandising, Store Operations, and / or DC Operations teams.
• Communicate effectively and persuasively with employees at all levels of the company.
• Continued training & education of industry best practices, software capabilities, and other learning / development opportunities to foster growth, understanding, and effectiveness.

Additional Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Job Required Knowledge & Skills

Preferred Job Required Knowledge & Skills

Reports To

SVP, Allocation