Overview:

Allocation Analyst

About Catalyst Brands:

Catalyst Brands is a leading U.S.-based retail organization formed in 2025 through the merger of JCPenney and SPARC Group, combining multiple iconic fashion brands under one umbrella. The company manages a diversified portfolio of well-known brands including Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Nautica, Lucky Brand, and JCPenney. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Catalyst Brands focuses on delivering up-to-date retail experiences while leveraging the heritage of established global brands. With a workforce of over tens of thousands and multi-billion-dollar revenue, the organization operates at a large scale across retail, e-commerce, and supply chain domains. The company emphasizes innovation, digital transformation, and customer-centric strategies to enhance brand value and consumer engagement. Catalyst Brands is expanding its global presence, including a growing capability centre in India that supports technology, digital operations, and analytics. It aims to drive operational excellence and business growth by integrating technology, data-driven insights, and efficient retail practices.

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

Primary Allocation Responsibilities:

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Execute comprehensive allocation strategies to support merchandise assortment plans, ensuring consistent

alignment with business objectives and buyer direction.

- Manage the end-to-end inventory allocation process utilizing JDA (or other relevant inventory management

systems), ensuring timely and accurate product flow across all retail locations.

- Continuously monitor and analyze store performance, sales trends, and regional/seasonal demand to make

data-driven allocation adjustments that enhance product availability and minimize stockouts or overstocks.

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Buying Units (Buyers, Assistant Buyers, Assortment

Planners,



and Inventory Demand Analysts)—to support pre-season and in-season merchandise planning
decisions.

- Conduct in-depth hindsight reviews of past seasons to identify key learnings and apply insights to improve future

allocation and assortment planning strategies.

- Provide clear, strategic recommendations to business units through ongoing review of critical business

performance reports, ensuring decisions are backed by data and market intelligence.

- Proactively manage residual inventory and warehouse stock by ensuring timely allocation to stores, mitigating

potential overstocking or markdowns.

- Evaluate and initiate channel-to-channel transfers, Return to Warehouse (RTW), Return to Vendor (RTV),

Transfers and Returns (TARs), and Enterprise Inventory Reserve (EIR) actions to optimize inventory health.
Primary Replenishment Responsibilities:

- Drive Instock and adhoc analysis to find opportunities and risks, providing actionable insights to Business Units,

ASMs, and Inventory Distribution Analysts to meet sales, profit, and inventory goals.

- Drive and perform periodic assortment optimization by utilizing tools, providing insights to Inventory Distribution

Analysts and Business Units, and managing processes for expansion and discontinuation.

- Review store level inventory ensuring it aligns with expectations, and action when stores are outside of tolerance.

Identify and action store level opportunities through enhanced analytics and Plano communications.

- Manage demand planning and buy quantification in collaboration with BUs and Sourcing teams. Responsible for

sending supplier information and supporting the demand planning team with data.

- Analyze and quantify vendor projections, fill rates,



and in-stock trends.
- Run replenishment orders. Review and release of all manual order types. Adjust SOQs on an exception basis and

review/action on exception reports for ordering.

- Review and action Target Inventory/Minimum Safety Stock at all locations (Warehouse, Store, DLC’s)
- Manage system setup and maintenance of assortment by activating and deactivating SKUs as per buyers' intent and

optimization.

- Review All Replenishment Parameters to achieve optimal inventory levels and develop and communicate

parameter changes needed for product/category to ASMs, IDAs & Business units.

- Maintain logs for parameters, supersessions and safety stock templates.
- Monitor key performance indicator (KPI) reports to track inventory levels and sales performance. Use these reports

to provide actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making.

- Deliver an outstanding in-store and online experience through balanced, optimized inventory by channel, volume

grade and climate to provide compelling and productive assortment for our customer.

- Identify, analyze, and respond to replenishment ordering and low/high weeks of supply exceptions or deviations

from standard inventory needs.

- Partner with ASMs and Business units to develop and implement inventory strategies to build inventory, maximize

sales, and increase productivity

Core Competencies & Accomplishments:

- 2 to 4 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 to advanced excel.

Pay Range: INR ₹0.00 - INR ₹0.00 /Yr.

📌 Allocation Analyst (Bengaluru)
🏢 JCPenney
📍 Bengaluru