Project Manager, Allocation Process

**Job Title**: Project Manager, Allocation Process

**Department**:
Looking to unbox your full potential? **Find YOUR Fit** at the ALDO GROUP.

**FIND YOUR FIT**
- Recognition programs to showcase your talent
- Tools to support and help them to reach their Career Goals. (Training Offers, Scholarship Programs, LinkedIn Learning and more).
- To be part of a company that takes a stand on issues affecting people, the environment, and our partners
- Summer Fridays (because Summer is for fun)
- Purchase discount on merchandise sold in all our divisions.
- Family & Friends events with discounts on our products
- Subsidized cafeteria & daycare
- Subsidized public transportation and free parking
- On-campus gym with access to a trainer
- Flex schedules and possibility to work from home
- Sick days
- Attractive total compensation

**YOUR ROLE**

Reporting directly to the Director of Planning & Allocation projects and responsible for:

- Mapping allocation processes, identify continuous improvement opportunities & implement them;
- Owning allocation processes & strategy (quantification, initial allocation, replenishment, recalls, store clusters ) & tools (systems & reports)
- Training new team members & ad-hoc/ refresh trainings to ensure that process improvements are shared & implemented
- Working in close collaboration with category managers & Sales & Operations Directors to identify challenges in the allocation process, specific needs for the category or stores.
- Subject Matter expert for IT projects related to allocations &systems supporting the Allocation processes
- Supporting the team reporting needs by creating new reports & dashboards once the data are available
- Building strong relationships within the team (Category managers, allocators) & the eco-system (buyers, sales & operations, visual merchandising )

Management and coaching:

- Train new allocators & ensure allocation practices are in each category aligned with our established processes

Process and operation driven:

- Map & challenge existing Allocation processes, document them in an organized & user-friendly manner (library of processes & best practices);
- Direct communication with Allocators, Buyers, Category Managers, Sales & Operations Directors, Inventory Control, Outbound Transport, Logistics to gather their challenges with existing processes & needs for improvements.
- Understand systems used by the Allocation team, maximize their usage within the team & document enhancements needed;
- Understand reports used/ produced by the Allocation team, challenge their value & identify the path for automation;
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities & area of focus to establish with leadership priorities & process roadmap

Analysis:

- Build a set of reports on allocation processes to ensure that allocations are done timely to the right store & in the right quantity (initial allocation, replenishment, aged inventory, store inventory )
- Ad hoc analysis to support cross categories requests

Project management:

- Subject Mater expert for Allocation with the IT team both for data (Business Intelligence) & systems (Enterprise Applications)
- Own Allocation project portfolio, align with leadership on the roadmap and deliver accordingly.

**DO YOU HAVE THE PROFILE WE'RE LOOKING FOR?**

Communication & interpersonal skills:

- Strong work ethic and interpersonal skills, enjoys working as part of a team and can provide coaching to team members
- Ability to work cross-functional in a multi-cultural environment.
- Ability to clearly communicate with partners from different teams and at different level in the hierarchy
- Ability to formalize ideas & projects: build documents/ presentation that articulate ideas clearly & map existing & target process
- Strong analytical skillset both to build reports & analyze the results
- “Customer Service” mindset to deliver support to allocators, stores

Process engineering & critical thinking:

- Allocation processes knowledge is an asset
- Project Management experience is an asset
- Understanding of inventory management & stores is an asset
- Extensive knowledge of Excel is required.
- Ability to review and analyze large amounts of data.
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems in a timely manner.
- Curiosity, willingness to seek for information & deep dive to perfectly understand all steps in a process
- Ability to summarize, understand & share the big picture (end to end) while knowing the details of each step
- Challenge status quo, think outside the box.

Management:

- Ability to work under pressure and meet multiple deadlines in a timely manner.
- Ability to document, provide constructive feedback & listen actively

**WE'RE ON A JOURNEY TO CREATE A WORLD OF LOVE, CONFIDENCE AND BELONGING**

The ALDO Group has been on this journey for over 50 years. We believe that our passionate associates are at the heart of our success, and that with them we will lead into our future with kindness.

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