Position Summary
Pivot Apparel is seeking a detail-oriented and analytically driven Business Analyst to support our Global Planning and Strategy organization across all channels - Wholesale, Retail Stores, and E-Commerce. This role partners closely across the planning and merchandising ecosystem to turn large, complex data sets into transparent, actionable recommendations that drive sales, inventory productivity, and margin across all categories - apparel and non-apparel. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience within a specialty contemporary apparel brand and is fluent in retail math, open-to-buy principles, and the cross-functional rhythm of a merchandising organization.
What You'll Do
• Partner with Merchandise Planning to build, maintain, and analyze seasonal sales, margin, and inventory plans at the department, class, and SKU level across all categories.
• Support Demand Forecasting by validating forecast accuracy, identifying trend shifts, and surfacing risks or opportunities in the sales forecast versus plan and versus prior year.




• Collaborate with Buying teams to analyze open-to-buy (OTB) positions, style/color productivity, and vendor performance, providing recommendations on receipt flow, chase opportunities, and markdown risk.
• Work with Allocation & Replenishment to evaluate weeks of supply (WOS), sell-through, and in-stock performance by door/DC and channel, recommending allocation strategy adjustments.
• Support Store Planning with door-level financial plans, cluster/segmentation analysis, and space or fixture productivity insights.
• Build and maintain reporting tools and dashboards (Excel-based and/or BI platforms) that synthesize large, multi-source data sets into digestible, decision-ready outputs for cross-functional partners.
• Conduct ad hoc analyses — such as 80/20 (Pareto) reviews, price elasticity, wholesale specialty account reconciliation, and style/color performance — to inform buy, allocation, and pricing decisions.
• Reconcile and valida

📌 Business Analyst (Mumbai)
🏢 Pivot Apparel
📍 Mumbai