Associate Planner & Allocator

Tapestry, Inc.; New York; On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a detail-oriented individual to join their team focusing on soft goods allocation and store planning. This role involves managing inventory levels, analyzing sales trends, and collaborating with various teams to ensure optimal store performance. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills, with a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join a vibrant company that values creativity and inclusivity, and contribute to a brand that celebrates individuality and optimism in everyday life.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of planning and/or financial analysis experience required.
• Proficiency in analytical skills and retail math essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage replenishment of Off Price locations to maintain inventory levels.
• Analyze business trends to identify opportunities and risks.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Retail Math Skills

Time Management

Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Flexibility

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Primary Purpose: This position would focus on soft goods allocation, as well as store planning functions specifically pertaining to allocation (cluster management, market grading), weekly store reporting, information coordination between CFTs (field, finance, marketing), managing store visit recaps and ad hoc analysis.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in store planning & allocation to:

• Manage replenishment of all Off Price locations to maintain healthy inventory levels on a weekly basis by analyzing store sales and future WOS.
• Analyze historical business trends on an ongoing basis to understand business drivers, identify opportunities and risks, while partnering with key stakeholders to take action appropriately.
• Support hindsight and market preparation: set up planning files and partner with the Buying team on pre-season key strategies.
• Participate in seasonal purchase budget process, partnering with manager to develop category and channel sales, margin and inventory plans aligning with business strategies.
• Manage monthly store planning deliverables, including sales by store and KPI forecasting; store cluster management; and cross-functional communication with finance and field teams.
• Collaborate with store field teams to ensure they are set up for success and have the proper inventory to do forecasted sales as well as gather anecdotal information that might affect future sales plans.
• Manage weekly product reporting package for cross-functional team.
• Run ad-hoc analysis when needed to provide clear conclusions and actionable next steps.

The accomplished individual will possess:

• Exceptional analytical/retail math skills; ability to analyze retail business at a macro/micro level.
• Excellent time-management and organizational skills.
• Strong listening, communication, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and have aptitude to learn technical applications quickly.
• Flexibility to multi-task and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

An outstanding professional will have:

• 2+ years of prior planning and/or financial analysis experience; Equivalent combination of work experience and education will be considered.

Our Competencies for All Employees:

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers:

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Kate Spade is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or [e-mail].

BASE PAY RANGE: $65,000.00 TO $75,000.00 Annually