Job Summary

Overview Senior Planning Analyst: The Senior Analyst will be part of Planning & Allocation Team where you will leverage your skills and business acumen to achieve the organization and team goals.

Responsibilities

- Own and develop/maintain grading guidelines/strategies. Ensure grading guidelines/strategies are being followed through grading review process.
- Create and maintain store grading at the class level. Monitor and review the grading process to ensure compliance with established guidelines.
- Review high volume/low space stores. Analyze stores with high sales volume but limited space and provide actionable insights.
- Determine how to best optimize high volume/low space stores.
- Identify and implement strategies to maximize efficiency and sales in these stores.
- Communicate individual store grade adjustments. Inform relevant stakeholders about changes in store grades.
- Adjust store grades based on identified opportunities for improvement.
- Drive size strategy. Develop/manage the overall size strategy for the company. Determine level to profile and strategies to drive size precision.
- Review and analyze size curves for each store before they are finalized and published.
- Implement and maintain detailed size profiles for different classes and item types.
- Conduct analysis to find size-related opportunities based on brand, region, or demographics and provide actionable insights to relevant stakeholders.




- Review/examine actual sales data, allocated sizes, and planned penetration percentages. Identify areas for improvement and make recommendations to enhance size allocation accuracy.
- Collaborate with ASMs and Business Units to build store clusters.
- Implement/roll out localization strategies and brand/category-specific initiatives.

Qualifications

- 4 to 6 years of experience in Retail Supply Chain - planning and allocation, merchandising planning, inventory management and forecasting.
- Critical thinking
- Problem Solving & Decision-making
- Business planning and financial analysis, Allocation, Planning, Buying, Merchandising, Inventory Control and Supply Chain knowledge.
- Proficiency in Blue Yonder INFORM/JDA/EFAs or other planning and allocation operating system.
- Experience with Microstrategy Planning & Reporting tools a plus.
- Proficiency in intermediate excel.

Key Skills

- Planning and allocation
- Merchandising planning
- Inventory management and forecasting
- Blue Yonder INFORM/JDA/EFAs
- MicroStrategy Planning & Reporting
- Excel (intermediate)
- Business planning and financial analysis

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📌 Planning Sr Analyst (Karnataka)
🏢 JCPenney
📍 Karnataka