Planning & Allocation Analyst (6 Month Contract)

Planning & Allocation Analyst (6 Month Contract)

** Serving the needs of all families with young children,**Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.

** HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT**:
The Planning & Allocation Analyst partners with the Planning, Merchandise, and DC teams to achieve the overall financial and strategic objectives of the organization. Their core function consists of maintaining, analyzing, and reporting on all business strategies, in partnership with the Senior Analysts and Allocation Manager, highlighting performance drivers and opportunities that will impact top and bottom-line sales. Along with all allocations, analysis, system maintenance and inventory management for their area of coverage.

60%: Reporting, Analytics and System Maintenance
- Forecast analysis in partnership with Planning and Allocation Manager for area of responsibility providing details on anticipated sales and allocation projections. Proactively flagging concerns to Leaders on forward looking forecasts that don’t align to marketing cadence, business objectives and growth strategies.
- Providing weekly, monthly, quarterly analysis to Business Partners and Leadership Teams on all corporate growth strategies and initiatives (Product, Store Attributing and Formats, Competition Impact, and New, Renovated, Closing Stores).
- Supporting market analysis and store profiling through store visits, researching and understanding the competitive landscape, demographic nuances, weather and seasonal anomalies and any other relevant store attributing impacts.

40%: Allocations and Inventory Management
- Executing all allocation workflows through Inventory Smart for Launch, Backup and New Store for area of responsibility.
- Life cycle and store attribute constraint management (WOS, Min, Max) in partnership with Planner and Allocation Manager, communication on configuration updates with Category Manager, Planner, and Sr. Analyst.
- Effectively dissect and communicate forecast demand prior to allocation release to understand projected allocation qty’s ensuring alignment with marketing initiatives, inventory plans, store trends, lifecycle, and seasonality of product for all allocation workflows.
- Actively partner with Planning and Merchandising team to understand business performance, inventory levels (in store and DC) and flow requirements to optimize inventory ensuring sales plan is obtained, WOS is balanced and minimizing stockouts.
- Actively participate in all allocation meetings with team, business partners and Allocation Manager to understand the goals and corporate initiatives along with sharing data analysis and recommendations.
- Partnership with Merchandise Associates, DC Partners, Category Managers, Planners, and Sr. Analyst to rectify all inventory concerns and ensure every unit is accounted for and actioned.

** WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF**:
Must have:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 1+ years of Retail Analysis & Allocations
- Proficient in Microsoft Office - ability to manipulate large data and develop professional analysis and presentations.
- Strong analytical skills, experienced in retail math concepts and a solid understanding of retail KPI’s.
- Must be able to work as part of a team and independently with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities with ease and composure while continuing to meet deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to express ideas, problems, recommendations, and solutions with clarity.
- Preferred skills and experience:

- Experienced with Inventory Smart, OMNIA, and Tableau are strong assets.
- Normal office environment
- Role is based in our Mississauga location

** OUR TEAM MEMBERS**:

- Lead Courageously: Have a strong sense of personal values that align with our Company values
- Collaborates Broadly: Build cooperation, trust, and thrive in a consensus driven environment
- Customer Focus: Proactively seek opportunities to leverage data and fact-based insights to serve customers and/or internal clients
- Drive Growth: Set aggressive goals and implement plans precisely
- Cultivates Innovation: Respectfully challenge the “we’ve always done it this way” mentality and explore new ways to achieve desired outcomes

**MAKE A CAREER AT CARTER’S**:
Career Development: Success starts from within, and we have several paths from which you can choose to enhance your career evolution. From Carter’s University to Toastmasters to mentorship programs and more, we encourage you to utilize these tools to elevate your professional prowess.

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