Allocation Associate

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Job Title:  Associate Allocator, North America

Summary:  The Associate Allocator is an enthusiastic, self-motivated, analytical individual who is a key driver of the omnichannel North America business. This person is detail and process oriented and enjoys applying creative thinking and problem solving to help optimize the business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and execute allocation strategies with an understanding of sales trend, store capacity, and stock to sales ratio
• Allocate, analyze and manage inventory levels at both distribution center and store by effectively utilizing appropriate strategies and systems to impact the financial success of selected departments.
• Compile weekly reporting and develop thorough knowledge of area and regional level performance through extensive data analysis.
• Collaborate and partner closely with cross-functional partners on distribution strategies to drive sales, gross margin, and mitigate any inventory risk in season.
• Run weekly reporting, analyze location selling, and track future receipts.
• Optimize inventory across stores and Ecommerce through monthly transfer processes to maximize sales and turn.
• Track and communicate timing of receipt deliveries into DCs

Skills and Abilities Required

• Self-starter who can work independently
• Detailed oriented and highly organized
• Strong strategic thinking and outstanding analytical/quantitative skills with ability to manage large amounts of data.
• Advanced working knowledge of MS Excel preferred.
• Ability to effectively multi-task, prioritize and adapt to fast-paced, dynamic business environment.
• Strong communication skills and comfortable partnering with many different teams
• Ability to identify and troubleshoot problems
• Strong strategic thinking and outstanding analytical/quantitative skills with ability to manage large amounts of data.
• Knowledge of SAP preferred

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred with 1+ years of experience in allocation/buying/planning/inventory management
• Experience in a sized category is a plus

Our Competencies for All Employees

• 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.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• 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.

Stuart Weitzman is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or employeerelations@tapestry.com

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Work Setup

BASE PAY RANGE $70,000.00 TO $80,000.00 Annually
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