Overview

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.

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.

- Partner with Allocation leadership to design, enhance, and maintain allocation tools, performance dashboards,

and reporting systems to support business agility and visibility.

- Support the refinement and automation of allocation processes to drive operational efficiency and scalability

across departments.

Pay Range

INR ₹0.00 - INR ₹0.00 /Yr.

📌 Senior Allocation Analyst (Bengaluru)
🏢 JCPenney
📍 Bengaluru