L brands

Senior Demand & Deployment Analyst

L brands • $95K — $115K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years in inventory management or store analysis
  • Bachelor's degree in a business-related field preferred
  • Experience in high volume, fast-paced retail environment
  • Strong analytical skills with quantitative data
  • Intermediate Excel proficiency and ability to learn new software
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team in onboarding and establishing best practices
  • Develop a fact-based approach to sales and inventory strategy
  • Formulate pre-season and in-season inventory deployment strategies
  • Execute deployment of products to stores weekly
  • Advocate for the field with occasional store travel
  • Influence decision-making in cross-functional meetings using analytics
  • Resolve inventory flow issues with logistics and production partners
  • Support category initiatives and ad-hoc analysis
  • Manage inventory between digital and physical store channels

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Employee discount programs
  • Professional development and training opportunities
Full Job Description
Your Role:

The Senior Demand and Deployment Analyst role is responsible for store level analytics, sales forecasting and deployment strategy leading to finished goods allocation from distribution center to stores for a specific book of business. Ensures optimum inventory levels to maximize sales and margin to achieve targeted levels of inventory productivity, in support of overall product and company profitability. The Senior D&D Analyst will be a liaison between stores, logistics and other cross functional partners as well as be a leader within the team. They will utilize several business applications including, but not limited to: JDA Allocation, SAP and MicroStrategy.

Your Impact:

  • Function as leader on the team in respect to on-boarding, establishing best practices, process/system optimization, building talent across the team and collaborating to drive short/long term strategies impacting assortment and buys
  • Develop and articulate a fact-based analytical approach to store sales and inventory strategy, monitor results, and action necessary adjustments with exceptional change agility; all with the goal of delivering budgeted sales and margin and planned sell through expectations
  • Formulate inventory deployment strategy (pre-season & in-season), accounting for constraints and inputs, such as inventory levels by store cluster (tiering), timing of merchandise delivery, minimum presentation, and distribution of sizes to support merchandise sales plans
  • Execute daily/weekly deployment of product to stores to improve inventory levels, maximizing sales plans/trend
  • Be an advocate for the field and participate in occasional store travel. Spark cross-functional action that improves the complexion of store level inventory
  • Participate in category and cross functional meetings - leverage analytics to influence decision making
  • Consistently demonstrate analytical curiosity and socialize thoughts to drive action
  • Work with Logistics and production partners to resolve external constraints that impact inventory flow to distribution center and stores
  • Support and execute to testing strategies, category specific initiatives and ad-hoc analysis.
  • Support inventory management between digital and store channels


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Your Experience:

  • 3-5 years of inventory management and/or store analysis experience
  • Bachelor's degree in business-related discipline preferred
  • Experience in high volume, fast paced, specialty/big box retail environment or equivalent
  • Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities effectively
  • Ability to work collaboratively and influence multiple partners on business decisions and able to troubleshoot issues for best possible resolution
  • Strong analytical skills - ability to analyze and understand quantitative data
  • Intermediate technical skill proficiency (PC-based) using functions in Excel; demonstrated ability to learn and apply new software technology.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills: concisely presents complex information/ recommendations in terms meaningful to various audiences


About L brands

Bath & Body Works, Inc. is an American specialty retailer based in Columbus, Ohio. It owns Bath & Body Works, posted $11.9 billion in revenue in 2021, and was listed as 248 on the 2020 Fortune 500 list of largest United States companies by revenue. In February 2020, L Brands announced the planned sale of its Victoria's Secret division to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm. Under the agreement, Sycamore Partners would gain a 55% controlling stake in Victoria's Secret while L Brands would keep a 45% stake, leaving Bath & Body Works to become L Brand's sole business. The sale fell through in May 2020, although Wexner did step down as CEO as planned, replaced by Andrew Meslow. In March 2021, L Brands announced it would spin off Victoria’s Secret as a stand-alone publicly traded company, and then change its name to Bath & Body Works, Inc.
Learn more about L brands
Size
2,800 employees
Market Cap
$22.2 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Net Income
$845.3 million
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
-0.5%
Revenue
$11.8 billion
NASDAQ
LB
* Ladders Estimates

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