Primary Purpose: The Senior Allocator is responsible for effectively managing inventory levels to support Coach's overall North American Retail & Outlet sales and inventory plans. The Allocation team is highly collaborative and partners closely with a variety of cross-functional teams. This is a great opportunity for an individual with outstanding analytical and communication skills, who is strategic, motivated, and systems-savvy.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Men's Footwear Allocation to:- Effectively utilize appropriate allocation strategies to impact the financial success of selected departments.
- Continuously analyze and manage inventory levels at both distribution and store levels.
- Work closely with Buying partners to clearly communicate allocation strategies, understand Buying strategies, and ensure alignment with cross-functional partners.
- Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency and accuracy of information, share best practices, and maximize systems knowledge.
- Recommend seasonal buy investment strategies to influence inventory levels based on channel performance and tiering strategies.
- Perform door and distribution analysis to influence current and forward-looking business.
The accomplished individual will possess:- Bachelor's degree and at least 2-4 years of allocation experience.
- Advanced working knowledge of MS Excel and retail math required.
- Passion for data analysis and driving growth and innovation.
- Experience managing sized categories and understanding the importance of optimizing inventory.
- Strong forward strategic thinking and outstanding analytical/quantitative skills with the ability to manage large amounts of data to leverage Alteryx recommendations.
- Ability to effectively multi-task, prioritize, and adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic business environment.
- Excellent listening, communication, and presentation skills; ability to effectively interact with team members and cross-functional and field partners at all levels.
- A keen attention to detail and a drive to finish tasks accurately and efficiently.
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
- Problem-solving mindset and uses critical thinking skills to identify and resolve issues.
- Ability to work independently and own the end-to-end process.
- Experience with allocation and reporting systems and databases (i.e., InventorySmart, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Alteryx).
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 ManagersStrategic 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.
Base Pay Range$80,000.00-$88,000.00
Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.
