Director, Planning & Allocation Technology

Vuori, Inc; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Savings and Retirement Plan

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Time Off

Wellness & Fitness benefits

Job summary

Vuori, Inc. seeks a Director of Planning & Allocation Technology to lead the strategy for merchandise planning and allocation.

You will own the product roadmap, partner with Data Science to productionize forecasting, and drive adoption of system forecasts across planning and merchandising teams. You will manage a small team of PMs and analysts, work with on/offshore partners in an Agile environment, and help shape the planning operating model with human-in-the-loop decisions and transparent

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, analytics, or planning tech.
• 2+ years mentoring product managers or analysts.
• Shipped ML or advanced analytics into a user workflow.
• Fluent forecasting knowledge and interpretability.
• Strong merch planning and allocation experience.
• Experience with Agile in global teams and enterprise planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for merchandise planning and allocation capabilities.
• Partner with Data Science to develop forecasting models and explainability.
• Drive adoption of forecasts and measure forecast value-add.
• Evolve operating model around human-in-the-loop decisions.
• Monitor emerging tech and integrate production-ready solutions.
• Define data foundation requirements and collaborate with data engineering.
• Lead and develop a small team of PMs and analysts.
• Collaborate with offshore/onsite partners in agile ceremonies.

Skills

Product management

Analytics

Merchandise planning

Forecasting modeling

Team leadership

Agile & Jira

SQL knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Anaplan

o9

RELEX

Blue Yonder

Board

SQL

Job description

Director, Planning & Allocation Technology

• Full-time
• Workplace Type: Onsite
• Department: HQ - Technology
• Compensation: USD 181200 - USD 242550 - yearly

Vuori is re-defining what athletic apparel looks like: built to move and sweat in but designed with a casual aesthetic to transition into everyday life. We draw inspiration from an active coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, creative expression and life. Our high energy fast paced retail environment is reflected in the clothes we make. We aim to inspire others to take on all aspects of their lives with clarity, enthusiasm and purpose…while having a lot of fun along the way. We are proud to be an outlet for opportunity and for personal growth and success.

Vuori is one of the fastest-growing apparel brands in the world, and the way we plan andallocateproducthas tokeep pace.We'relooking for a technically strong product leader to own the strategy and roadmap for our merchandise planning and allocation capabilities — spanning pre-season and in-season planning, top-down and bottom-up, and how inventory flows to our stores and distribution centers. You'll partner with Data Science to put machine learning and advanced forecasting into the hands of our planners, work closely with Merchandising and Planning leadership to shape how that workactually getsdone, and lead and grow a small team of Product Managers and Analysts. This is a role for someone as energized by explainability and user adoption as by the technology itself — because the best forecast in the worlddoesn'tmove the business if plannersdon'ttrust it.

Whatyou'llget to do:

• Own the product roadmap for our merchandise planning and allocation capabilities,prioritizingbusiness impact, technical feasibility, andadoption ofreadiness.
• Partner with Data Science as a technical peer to develop and productionize forecasting capabilities — machine learning models, probabilistic forecasting, and attribute-based new-item demand modeling — and own the explainability requirements that make planners trust them.
• Drive adoption of system-generated forecasts as a primary measure ofsuccess andestablishforecast accuracy and forecast value-addmeasurement,so model performance and business impact stay visible.
• Partner with Planning, Merchandising, and Technology leadership to evolve the planning and allocation operating model around human-in-the-loop decision-making — helping define what the system decides, what the planner decides, and where exceptions escalat
• Keep a pulse on emerging technology across planning, forecasting, and AI, assessing what is genuinely production-ready and building it into the roadmap on a realistic timeline.
• Own the product requirements for the data foundation behind planning intelligence, partnering with Data Engineering on pipeline timing, data quality, and the data products forecasting and allocation depend on.
• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of Product Managers and Analysts, raising the bar on technical fluency,requirements ofquality, andoutcome ofownership.
• Collaborate with on/offshore development partners on solution design anddelivery andrepresent planning and allocation priorities in agile ceremonies and quarterly planning.

Who you are:

• 10+ years in product management, analytics, or planning technology, with meaningful exposure to retail merchandise planning, allocation, or demand forecasting.
• 2+ years managing or mentoring product managers or analysts, with the communication skills to explain technical trade-offs to merchants and planners, and business trade-offs to engineers and data scientists.
• You have shipped a machine learning or advanced analytics capability into a business user's day-to-day workflow — not a dashboard, and not a proof of concept that stalled.
• Technically fluent in forecasting: comfortable discussing model approaches, error metrics (WMAPE, bias, forecast value add), probabilistic versus point forecasts, and the trade-offs between accuracy and interpretability.
• Strong working knowledge of merchandise planning and allocation — pre-season and in-season, top-down and bottom-up, open-to-buy,receiptflow, and store/DC allocation.
• Experience working with on/offshore development teams in an Agile environment (JIRA,sprintand quarterly planning), plus hands-on familiarity with enterprise planning platforms (Anaplan, o9, RELEX, Blue Yonder, Board, or similar) from a data model and configuration perspective. Working knowledge of SQLis a plus.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience preferred.

Our investment in you:

At Vuori, we’re proud to offer the following to our employees:

• Health Insurance
• Savings and Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness & Fitness benefits

The salary range for this role is $181,200 per year - $242,550 per year. This role is bonus eligible.

Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.