Planning Allocation Manager (Remote)

Company: AYR
Location: Greenville
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

AYR stands for All Year Round. Our mission is to create confidence through clothing - we believe that the best design is ageless, timeless, effortless, and seasonless.

AYR is female-founded and independently operated. We created the company as an alternative to fast fashion. We make edited, effortless essentials designed to last, All Year Round. Sometimes, less is more - we produce a focused, seasonless assortment in small quantities and our team is very small and purposeful.

Our team is looking to hire a Planning Allocation Manager who will work closely with our CEO, production, and finance teams. In this position, you will analyze and determine timelines and quantities for inventory buys and replenishments, as well as allocating inventory to our retail stores.

What you'll do in this role:

You will develop and manage an inventory allocation process to ensure inventory is maximized to drive sales, improve investment productivity, profitability goals, and service goals.
You will have goals for various segments of inventory to include performing and non-performing inventory, excess and obsolete, raw material, in process, finished goods.
You will analyze and determine timelines and quantities for the replenishment and allocation of product within the context of the company strategy.
Manage & monitor inventory health on the daily basis, identifying problem areas and driving appropriate actions to achieve inventory targets.
Model missed opportunity, read and react, optimize efficiency of inventory investment in both existing & new product.
Size product orders.
You will review and prepare delivery allocation plans and partner with the production team to perform initial releases and subsequent replenishments to maintain size grading and flow.
Monitor KPI allocation flow down to SKU level.
Drive timely & accurate supply communications.
Maintain and improve inventory reporting for days of supply, inventory turns, inventory as a % to safety stock and inventory in relationship to entitlement.
You will be responsible for allocating inventory to retail locations to cover store-specific demand.

What your experience looks like:

You like doing your work, it brings you joy, and you're good at it.
You like to work with a high degree of freedom and to work without a lot of direction.
You're an expert in your field. You work autonomously, and get your work done well.
Even though you value your independence, you like cross functional team collaboration.
You are great at retail math, and demand forecasting.
You are analytical and an excellent planner.
You are great at creative problem solving, it's something you enjoy, and you're able to interpret both quantitative and qualitative data to come up with the right decisions for the business.
You value efficiency.
Bachelor's Degree
Minimum 5 years' experience in allocation and planning
Highly proficient and effective with Excel

Benefits and perks
Remote team (WFH)
Quarterly clothing allowance
Competitive bonus plan
100% coverage for employees and their families
Dental, vision, life insurance coverage
Paid maternity and paternity leave
Open vacation time

We are an equal opportunity employer to all. We interview and hire applicants of all backgrounds, orientations, expressions, and identities.

Please send your resume to: jobs@ayr.com

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