We are looking for a Retail Merchandiser – Allocation & Planning who will be responsible for driving the right product availability across stores by effectively planning, allocating and replenishing merchandise. The role will involve close coordination with Buying, Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain, Warehouse and Retail Operations teams to ensure optimum inventory levels, improved sell-through and reduced stock-outs.
The ideal candidate should have strong analytical and Excel skills, a good understanding of retail metrics, and the ability to translate sales and inventory data into actionable allocation decisions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Merchandise Planning & Allocation
- Plan and allocate merchandise across stores based on store potential, sales trends, category performance and inventory requirements.
- Prepare store-wise and category-wise allocation plans for recent launches, seasonal collections and ongoing products.
- Ensure the right product, size, colour and quantity reaches the right store at the right time.
- Monitor stock availability and identify opportunities for reallocation / redistribution between stores.
- Develop allocation strategies based on store clusters, formats, locations and customer profiles.
2. Sales & Inventory Analysis
- Analyse SKU-wise, store-wise and category-wise sales and inventory performance.
- Monitor key retail metrics such as:
- Sell-through %
- Stock cover
- WOS / Weeks of Supply
- ROS / Rate of Sale
- Stock Turn
- Availability %
- Ageing
- Markdown
- Stock-to-sales ratio
- Identify fast-moving, slow-moving and non-moving products and recommend corrective actions.
- Analyse size-wise sales to ensure appropriate size mix at store level.
3. Replenishment Planning
- Monitor daily/weekly store stock levels and generate replenishment requirements.
- Ensure timely replenishment of fast-moving and high-demand SKUs.
- Track stock-outs and take corrective action to improve product availability.
- Coordinate with warehouse and supply c
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