Position: Inventory Deployment Analyst
Your Role
The Inventory Deployment Analyst is an individual contributor responsible for end-to-end 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 Inventory Deployment Analyst will also be a liaison between stores, logistics and other cross functional partners. They will utilize several business applications including, but not limited to: JDA Allocation, SAP and MicroStrategy.
Why You Belong Here
At Victoria’s Secret & Co, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.
Your Impact
- Execute daily/weekly deployment of product to stores to improve inventory levels, maximizing sales plans/trend.
- Deliver budgeted sales and margin by ensuring inventory levels align with store customer preferences enabling plan sell-thru
- Formulate inventory deployment strategy (pre-season & in-season), considering 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
- Develop and articulate fact-based analytical approach to deployment decisions, monitor results and action deployment adjustments with exceptional change agility
- Be an advocate for the field and participate in occasional store travel. Spark cross-functional action that improves the complexion of store level inventories.
- Quantify inventory buys by size to support targeted inventory levels by store
- Collaborate with the Merchandise Planner and Merchant partners to prioritize flow of product considering inventory constraints
- 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 partners to resolve external constraints that impact inventory flow to distribution center and stores
- Work collaboratively across multiple functions and departments within the organization.
- Support and execute to testing strategies, category specific initiatives and ad-hoc analysis.
- Support inventory management between digital and store channels