Channel Planner & Allocator

**Role & Responsibilities:** Job Definition (Key Purpose of the Job): Thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong proficiency in excel with strong business acumen, and will play a key role in optimizing sales, forecasting inventory needs, and identifying opportunities to maximize growth. Lead & own inventory management strategies, including allocation, replenishment, consolidation, store capacity and product life cycle management to maximize sales, margin and inventory targets. Allocator Key Result Areas: * Identify, develop and implement process improvement opportunities to deliver efficiencies and making critical decisions that directly impact commercial performance. * Collaborate and share insights to inventory management team & commercial team in formulating in-season inventory strategies  * Provide data driven recommendations & analytics to optimize multi-channel inventory and maximize channel sales at SKU level. * Manage system setting for markdown and promotion * Analyze sales and product performance at both store and cluster level, provide support and input to the build. Channel Planner Key Result Areas: * Own and Drive pre-season merchandise financial plans, open to buy, flow planning, in-season forecast and in season management including promotional/markdown activity. * Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-thru assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame * Developing the seasonal product flow plan in collaboration with Merchandising and Buying function * Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process * Identifying weekly MTG YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team * Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk. * Consistently monitoring the business through analytics and identifying actions to achieve the key performance metrics. **Competency Requirements:** * Advance understanding retail mathematics and Open to Buy  * Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments  * Good communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal  * Entrepreneurship – an ability to make decisions and take calculated risks  * Strong organization and planning skills; ability to deliver results to a process and timeline * Ability to turn data and analytics into information to inform and influence decision-making * Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams * Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior * Flexibility to change business process, way of working. * Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement(goal-oriented)  List down specific set of functional skills required to perform in this role * MS Office (Excel /PowerPoint) * VF system (SAP, Bi, etc) & Tools (Tableau) adoption **Experience** Minimum Relevant Experience: _At least 3-5 years related experience_ **Academic Qualifications** Minimum Degree Held: Bachelor Subject Expert In: Mathematic/Business/Statistical analysis/Apparel Certifications Required: N/A **Language Proficiency:** Fluent in: Japanese / English **Specific Working Conditions** Frequency of Travel:  10% R-20260824-0084