Merchandising Operation Manager

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Manager of Allocation & Store Planning leads the team responsible for pre- & in-season store inventory, yield, allocation and store planning strategies for South China. He/she partners closely with merchandise planning to translate financial plans and create, manage and execute allocation and replenishment strategies to ensure profitable inventory allocation across stores. They ensure that yield management is optimized through effective promotional and end-of-life markdown management to ensure optimal inventory turns and margins that align to financial targets. Success in this position requires the ability to lead a team that is able to translate quantitative and qualitative data into actionable strategies; and the ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships with Merchandise Planning, Merchandising, Logistic, Store Operations, and the Field.

CORE COMPETENCIES
# Learning Agility
# Resourcefulness
# Strategic Orientation
# Talent Builder

ORGANIZATION RELATIONSHIPS:
Partners and collaborates with Merchandising/Field/Store Ops and Marketing/Visual leaders etc. and cross functional teams.

需出差，一年累積時間約六個月以下

QUALIFICATIONS:
1) Required knowledge, skills & abilities:
• Able to influence team leaders across the organization.
• Superior leadership / communication skills of both direct reports and cross functional teams.
• Strong ability to prioritize and focus on only key initiatives to drive the business (80/20).
• Able to approach opportunities with a problem-solving mindset.
• Able to empower others and lead to drive results.
• Advanced competency with Microsoft Excel and the ability to learn new applications quickly.
• Supply chain, logistics, store planning and retail software product knowledge is highly desirable.
• Strong comfort level with managing change.
• Able to manager broad job scope and work with a tremendous amount of detail without losing sight of the big picture.
• Can work in and bring structure to ambiguous environments.
• Clear understanding of systems, applications and tools used by Gap Inc. IT, Inventory Management Systems, Warehouse Management System, Planning and Distribution and Distribution Centers.

2) Minimum Education Level
• BA/BS required.

3) Experience Required
• Minimum 5+ years inventory management experience.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• Experience/knowledge in business strategy or operations improvement.
• Experience in inventory management, IT systems, product pipeline process design, promotional strategies and team management, training and development.