Retail Allocator

  • Full-time

Company Description

A three-billion-dollar global leader in the high performance and lifestyle footwear industry, Skechers USA, Inc. designs, develops and markets more than 3,000 styles for men, women and children. Skechers' success stems from its employees, high-quality, varied product offering, diversified domestic and international distribution channels, and targeted multi-channel marketing.

The company offers two distinct footwear categories: a lifestyle division and performance footwear. Through licensing agreements, the company also offers branded apparel, bags, eyewear, toys, and more.

Celebrity product endorsees for Skechers' collections include multi-platinum recording artists Meghan Trainor, model and actress Kelly Brook, TV personality Brooke Burke-Charvet, and boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard. In addition, elite marathon champion and Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi, elite runner Kara Goucher, and pro golfers Matt Kuchar, Belén Mozo and Colin Montgomerie represent the Skechers Performance Division.

The Company sells its footwear in department, specialty and independent stores, as well as through more than 1340 Company-owned Skechers retail stores and online at skechers.com. Beyond the United States, Skechers product is available in more than 160 countries and territories through an international network of subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Japan, and 27 countries in Western and Central Eastern Europe, as well as through joint ventures in Asia and distributors around the world.

Headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, Skechers is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SKX.

Job Description

To contribute to the business team in order to achieve divisional and departmental merchandising plans.  Develop and maintain optimum store inventory levels, monitor new store performance, and determine proper inventory mixes to satisfy each store by gender, category, style and size requirement.

Essential Job Results

  • Develop and execute initial allocation and replenishment of product to all assigned stores detailed in the “Buy Plans.”  Manage auto replenishment within published standards and proactively make adjustments based on sales trends, seasonality factors, visual merchandising strategies, and business needs.  Identify and focus on “Top 20” SKUs.  Target a 90% in-stock rate on those SKUs.  Develop and employ “best practices” methodologies as they are discovered.
  • Transfers – Responsible for monitoring SKU performance at the store level and recommending transfers or consolidations within published guidelines.  Once recommendations are approved by a Merchandiser, responsible for keying them into the APROPOS system for download to stores.
  • Ensure the right balance of product within their respective gender/category.
  • Develop allocation parameters that take into account store capacity, demand, bulks, seasonality and product life styles.
  • Assume responsibility for re-works and transfers based on the “out of stock” criteria set by the planners while focusing on the quality of merchandise, not quantity.  In –stock means having adequate sizes on all maintained and active codes.
  • Analysis – Using MicroStrategy, Garpac, Apropos, Stock Reports and Stock to Sales Reports, perform various store level analysis to anticipate the needs of business.  This includes creating weekly sales and inventory reports to identify top stores and SKUs, underperforming stores and SKUs and then using solid judgment to take appropriate action and making recommendations to the Planner when needed.  Create and utilize reporting tools to facilitate stock balancing transactions, as well as identifying and communicating missed product opportunities in specific store groupings.
  • Bulk management – Monitor “Buy Plans” to ensure that bulks are being distributed in a timely manner.  Communicate any issues to the Merchandiser, who will resolve them with the Allocations department.  Actively anticipate potential product constraints and direct the Merchandiser to bulk goods to protect future needs.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Maintain sample room 
  • Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • No. 

Job Requirements

  • Strong  analytical skills
  • Strong problem solving skills 
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment. 
  • Computer proficient with knowledge of Apropos, Micro Strategy and Excel

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required
  • 3-5 years’ footwear distribution and allocations experience required. 

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to walk; sit, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel. The employee is occasionally required to sit for long period of times.  

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