Ross Stores Careers – Allocation Planner

Job Description:

The Allocation Planner is responsible for a diverse range of assignments, projects, and analytics to support the end of month inventory plan achievement and strategic initiatives for their assigned Regions/Stores. The Allocation Planner manages Comp and Non Comp Stores through pre-month development of Weekly Sales Curves and In-Month Sales Trend assessments to capture emerging sales performance. They provides weekly visibility of current performance and trends to leadership. Additionally, the Allocation Planner researches and responds to product level inventory concerns from stores.

Job Responsibilities:

• Communicate conclusions and recommendations in a clear, straight forward, and concise format to business partners
• Research and respond to store callouts
• Execute and maintain Excel based reports/tools
• Support New Store and/or Going Out of Business processes
• Provide weekly communication to Allocation leadership of results and inventory opportunities/risks, providing recommended action needed to support changing trends
• Analyze historical sales performance in development of Weekly Sales Curves to capture Regional patterns and unique store performance
• Monitor region and store inventory position in relation to sales trends, with future opportunity to analyze at lower hierarchy levels
• Support end of month inventory plan achievement through use of Weekly Sales Curves and In-Month Trending for assigned Regions, as well as exception store management at the division level.
• Drive timely and effective communication with cross-functional business partners to inform/recommend allocation strategies and results
• Perform ad hoc analysis as needed

Job Requirements:

• Requires sitting, standing, walking, hearing, talking on the telephone, attending in-person meetings, typing, and working with paper/files, etc.
• Vision requirements: Ability to see information in print and/or electronically.
• Consistent timeliness and regular attendance.
• Intermediate MS Excel skills including formulas/functions (e.g., vlookup, countifs, etc.)
• Bachelor’s Degree or 2-4 years of related experience in Planning and/or Allocation
• Working knowledge of retail software, a plus (e.g., JDA/ACE, RDW)
• Job requires ability to work in an office environment, primarily on a computer.

Job Details:

Company: Ross

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Dublin, CA

Application Deadline: N/A

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