Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Oversee merchandise from initial allocation through end of life cycle, including replenishments and consolidation of goods across stores and channels.
- Evaluate sales trends, inventory levels, and store performance to identify risk and opportunities and take action to address them.
- Drive allocation decsions across stores and chennsl to ensure inventory is aligned with business needs and assortment strategies.
- Provide clear recommendations to improve sales performance, optimize inventory, and reduce risk.
- Partner with Planning to algin allocation strategies with sales plans, forecasts, and inventory trends.
- Collaborate with Merchandising to ensure assortments are aligned with store demand and performance trends.
- Support promotional and markdown strategies by identifying opportunities to drive sell-through and improve inventory productivity.
- Lead reporting and business analysis, providing insights and actions to support weekly and monthly business reviews.
- Monitor and ensure accuracy of inventory data across systems to support cross-functional alignment.
- Identify areas of opportunity within allocation processes and recommend improvements to increase efficiency and productivity.
- Provide direction and support to Jr. Allocators on allocation execution, reporting, and prioritization of workload.
- Oversee updating and managing the On Order file, ensuring the timely allocation of product as inventory arrives to the warehouses.
- Partner with Planning on receiving of core and carryover product and work with Production to understand ship status, shortages, and overages to ensure timely resolution of issues.
- Actively participate in cross-functional meetings, representing allocation and providing input to support business decisions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Ability Requirements:
- 4-5 years of relevant work experience in allocation or inventory analysis, preferably in the luxury retail industry.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and computer skills.
- Proven ability to identify trends, risks, and opportunities within the business.
- Demonstrated ability to make recommendations and influence business decsions.
- Detail-oriented with excellent follow through.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs.
- Foster a positive and motivating work outlook with emphasis on team collaboration.
- High proficiency in Excel.
Skills Required
- 4-5 years of relevant experience in allocation or inventory analysis
- Experience in the luxury retail industry
- Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and computer skills
- Ability to identify business trends, risks, and opportunities
- Ability to make recommendations and influence business decisions
- Excellent attention to detail and follow-through
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs
- Ability to foster team collaboration and a positive work outlook
- High proficiency in Excel
What We Do
Established in 2014 by Mike Amiri, the luxury menswear and womenswear brand, AMIRI, marries refined craftsmanship with the glamor of LA’s authentic skate and street culture. An LA native, founder Mike Amiri began his career in fashion by handcrafting unique stage pieces for iconic hard rockers such as Axl Rose and Steven Tyler. Eternally intrigued by such dark, heroic figures, his flair for tapping into this rock ‘n’ rock ethos led him to design an exclusive capsule collection for the LA-concept store, Maxfield. Since this debut collection, Mike established a distinct design signature with his deconstructed, hand-embellished denim jeans, leather jackets, grungy flannel shirting and graphic tee-shirts — all grounded in the nostalgic touchstones of his Californian youth. Early styles, like the MX1 jeans and Bandana Buckle boots, remain the pillars of AMIRI today, and the designer’s nascent DIY sensibility has since evolved into a studied and distinct savoir-faire. Today, AMIRI presents a collection bi-annually at Paris Fashion Week and is available from some of the most renowned retailers worldwide, such as Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Joyce in Hong Kong. As its global presence grows, AMIRI remains faithful to its roots: each garment is still a labor of love, cut from the finest fabrics, produced in majority in LA, and often even hand-finessed in-house. More recently, production of leathergoods and tailored suiting moved to Italy. Since 2018, Mike Amiri has been a member of the CFDA. In 2018, he was also nominated for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at the CFDA Fashion Awards and honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. In 2019, Mike was nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
