Senior Demand & Deployment Analyst - VS Beauty

Victoria's Secret; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Victoria's Secret in New York is seeking a Senior Demand and Deployment Analyst to optimize store inventory through precise analytics, forecasting, and deployment from distribution centers to boutiques.

The role partners with stores, logistics and cross-functional teams to drive sales growth and margin, using tools like SAP and MicroStrategy, and to ensure inventory productivity aligns with budgeted targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead store-level analytics, sales forecasting and deployment planning.
• Coordinate inventory deployment from distribution centers to stores.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stores, logistics and other partners.
• Develop data-driven approaches to optimize assortment, buys and margins.
• Monitor inventory levels and adjust deployment to meet sell-through targets.
• Support testing strategies and ad-hoc analyses.
• Assist in field on-boarding and share best practices.
• Communicate insights to influence decision-making.

Job description

Description

Your Role:

The Senior Demand and Deployment Analyst role is responsible for store level analytics, sales forecasting and deployment strategy leading to finished goods allocation from distribution center to stores for a specific book of business.Ensures optimum inventory levels to maximize sales and margin to achieve targeted levels of inventory productivity, in support of overall product and company profitability.The Senior D&D Analyst will be a liaison between stores, logistics and other cross functional partners as well as be a leader within the team.They will utilize several business applications including, but not limited to: JDA Allocation, SAP and MicroStrategy.

Your Impact:

• Function as leader on the team in respect to on-boarding, establishing best practices, process/system optimization, building talent across the team and collaborating to drive short/long term strategies impacting assortment and buys

• Develop and articulate a fact-based analytical approach to store sales and inventory strategy, monitor results, and action necessary adjustments with exceptional change agility; all with the goal of delivering budgeted sales and margin and planned sell through expectations

• Formulate inventory deployment strategy (pre-season & in-season), accounting for constraints and inputs, such as inventory levels by store cluster (tiering), timing of merchandise delivery, minimum presentation, and distribution of sizes to support merchandise sales plans

• Execute daily/weekly deployment of product to stores to improve inventory levels, maximizing sales plans/trend

• Be an advocate for the field and participate in occasional store travel.Spark cross-functional action that improves the complexion of store level inventory

• Participate in category and cross functional meetings – leverage analytics to influence decision making

• Consistently demonstrate analytical curiosity and socialize thoughts to drive action

• Work with Logistics and production partners to resolve external constraints that impact inventory flow to distribution center and stores

• Support and execute to testing strategies, category specific initiatives and ad-hoc analysis.

• Support inventory management between digital and store channels

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