Sr. Allocator

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

The Senior Allocator is directly responsible for all allocations for Boutiques and outlet stores in the US and Canada. They will work closely with the merchandise planning team, buying team and business leads to create builds, manual push needs and craft the total allocation strategy for the store business. They also need to ensure proper inventory management between the warehouse’s and ECOM business to ensure that the stock is in the right place to maximize sales.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

• Create and maintain all allocation reporting including, but not limited to: Ship to store summaries, build re-caps, store capacity, in-bound tracker, high turn styles, core replenishment MOH
• Assist Director of Planning, in partnership with business leads, to accurately ensure the right level of stock in all stores, aligned with budget and forecasted sales.
• Work with Buying team to ensure the correct levels of inventory are being bought into at the beginning of the season.
• Seasonally develop key allocation strategies and approaches to the business that will help drive sell through and top-side sales.
• Partner closely with head of outlet business to push the right level of stock and assortment to the outlet stores, to ensure the right balance and level of stock on hand.
• Create in-season consolidations between markets and stores to maximize sales,
• Key Cross functional partnership with Buying, Finance, business, Visual Merchandising.
• Manage a team of 2 direct reports, to support across the allocations across the stores and teams. This role will be required to still engage in allocations within the day to day needs of the job.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 3-5 years experience in Allocation, in both big and small door companies.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, highly detail-oriented and organized
• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint expertise: must be able to analyze large volumes of data in excel and be able to distill analysis into 
• Four year college degree

CORE COMPETANCIES

• Initiative: Actively strives to achieve goals beyond the minimum level of performance. A self-starter who has the ability to work well without close supervision.
• Mathematical: Must be proficient working with numbers to ensure correctness of date produced when compiling large volumes of data on a spreadsheet for analysis.
• Analytical: Must be able to identify and react to business trends in various markets.
• Organized: Must be able to develop a system that will enable you to gather and retrieve information quickly.
• Communication: Able to communicate clearly and productively with various business partners to foster open communication and to establish good working relationships within the business. 

Core Values and Traits:

Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

At Lacoste, we’re committed to building the best team we can. We hire for potential and support every team member through each step of their career development. Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for our team to think differently and push the status quo is incredibly important to us; and we strive to use these guiding principles as the foundation for how we interact with each other, how we build our business, and how we hold ourselves accountable to our core values.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

At Lacoste, we’re committed to providing equal opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, color, religion, creed, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, and/or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must also always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values.

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

The Senior Allocator is directly responsible for all allocations for Boutiques and outlet stores in the US and Canada. They will work closely with the merchandise planning team, buying team and business leads to create builds, manual push needs and craft the total allocation strategy for the store business. They also need to ensure proper inventory management between the warehouse’s and ECOM business to ensure that the stock is in the right place to maximize sales.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

• Create and maintain all allocation reporting including, but not limited to: Ship to store summaries, build re-caps, store capacity, in-bound tracker, high turn styles, core replenishment MOH
• Assist Director of Planning, in partnership with business leads, to accurately ensure the right level of stock in all stores, aligned with budget and forecasted sales.
• Work with Buying team to ensure the correct levels of inventory are being bought into at the beginning of the season.
• Seasonally develop key allocation strategies and approaches to the business that will help drive sell through and top-side sales.
• Partner closely with head of outlet business to push the right level of stock and assortment to the outlet stores, to ensure the right balance and level of stock on hand.
• Create in-season consolidations between markets and stores to maximize sales,
• Key Cross functional partnership with Buying, Finance, business, Visual Merchandising.
• Manage a team of 2 direct reports, to support across the allocations across the stores and teams. This role will be required to still engage in allocations within the day to day needs of the job.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 3-5 years experience in Allocation, in both big and small door companies.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, highly detail-oriented and organized
• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint expertise: must be able to analyze large volumes of data in excel and be able to distill analysis into 
• Four year college degree

CORE COMPETANCIES

• Initiative: Actively strives to achieve goals beyond the minimum level of performance. A self-starter who has the ability to work well without close supervision.
• Mathematical: Must be proficient working with numbers to ensure correctness of date produced when compiling large volumes of data on a spreadsheet for analysis.
• Analytical: Must be able to identify and react to business trends in various markets.
• Organized: Must be able to develop a system that will enable you to gather and retrieve information quickly.
• Communication: Able to communicate clearly and productively with various business partners to foster open communication and to establish good working relationships within the business. 

Core Values and Traits:

Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

At Lacoste, we’re committed to building the best team we can. We hire for potential and support every team member through each step of their career development. Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for our team to think differently and push the status quo is incredibly important to us; and we strive to use these guiding principles as the foundation for how we interact with each other, how we build our business, and how we hold ourselves accountable to our core values.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

At Lacoste, we’re committed to providing equal opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, color, religion, creed, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, and/or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must also always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values.