• Manage the OTB sales and inventory at brand/ category level and ensure that the merchandise targets are met on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Participate in weekly / monthly in-season forecast and OTB meetings.
• Analyse historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities; compare sales data of the planned category to company sales and provide action plans to reconcile deviations.
• Partner with the sourcing/buying to actively manage inventory levels by increasing and decreasing inventory, and/or cancelling orders.
• On a monthly and quarterly basis, recap and report back on the sales and inventory results to plan, forecast in-season sales and inventory.
• Partner with buyers to maintain store clusters using stock movement, capacity, geography by gender / category.
• Review orders with in-store date 30 days out to identify any changes required. Prioritize key styles/categories for delivery. Ensure pre-allocations to meet store targets.

Job Requirements :

• Strong aptitude with numbers and clear understanding of retail.
• Product analysis, analysing product performance, regularly track competitors’ activities, consumer’s needs and buying pattern.
• Analysing Slow/Fast movers and provide the insights to Design/VM/MKT for necessary actions.
• Preparation of scheduled reports (Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly) for review & provide the same with insights to Management.
• Review the scheduled reports with Operation & Store Managers for performance improvement.
• Entire Performance analysis (Category, Product, Stores & aging) and taking appropriate action.
• SKU rationalization for inventory optimization.
• Analysing Target vs Achievement of the category on store level & take necessary action for sales achievement.

Skills : merchandise,retail,allocations,sales .