Allocator, Allen Solly

Location- Bangalore

Experience- 2-6years

Education- Graduate and above

Skills-retail allocation, excel

Key Result Areas

Assist in Merchandise assortment plan for all stores

• Create appropriate buying plan for assigned category as per Sales targets
• Set ARP targets for product categories
• Create Option plan and conduct depth analysis
• Formulate Stock to Sale plan for a season – EOM / BOM
• OTB calculation
• Create appropriate buying plan

Provide inputs for Monthly Target setting in each category 

• Breaking up of Monthly targets into product category
• Target Vs achievement
• Merchandise plan report
• Product performance Lk2Lk

Tracking Inventory Management Process

• Ensure Ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained
• Dormancy within specified norms
• Pullback within specified norms 
• Sell thru reports on Excel for Week1, week2 sales
• Photo Sell Through report

Being a custodian in formulating the Stock & sale plan

• Product category wise dispatch plan
• Planned Vs actual
• Allocation plan for each store as per dispatch plan and size wise analysis
• Tracking allocation vs. actual dispatches

Market Intelligence

• New launches (competition product / window / schemes)
• Competition Mapping
• Training (Merchandise, Product & VM related)

Track the Core Business Contribution

• Monitoring to enhance the category contribution % of total business of LTL basis
• Identifying new designs to be added to this category

Help in creation of Retail Design Brief

• Designing a retail brief to design – option grid & learning of past season

Integrated Go To Market (IGTM)

• Planning for a successful IGTM story along with VM and design
• Dressing up one key store for the look
• Roll – out across stores

Integration with space planning

• Working in close co-ordination with retail planner to closely monitor returns from space allocated