Specialty Inventory Manager bei Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble · New York, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Onsite
- Professional
- Optionales Büro in New York
Job Summary
An employee in this position can expect an annual starting rate between $65,000 and $70,000, depending on experience, seniority, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law.
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What You Do
• Meet deadlines set by the Specialty Commercial Calendar to ensure timely delivery of product.
• Present inventory buy and allocation strategy to larger Specialty team when appropriate.
• Work with buyers on key items to determine quantities or adjustments needed to presets based on marketing, publicity and commercial calendar plans.
• Work with Visual Merchandising team to identify appropriate display quantities for furniture and fixtures.
• Effectively utilize inventory management systems to execute allocation strategies.
• Partner with the Distribution Center when appropriate to ensure inventory is flowing to stores timely and efficiently.
• Assist in managing the production process for any applicable products by ordering components, planning production quantities and allocation of finished goods.
• Analyze ongoing sales trends and postmortem findings to take appropriate actions to ensure the optimal inventory levels are maintained in each store throughout the product lifecycle.
• Replenish inventory to stores to minimize markdowns and/or maximize margin and sales.
• Use tools to reorder quantities of products based on their replenishment strategy and rank to maintain positive DC in stock position.
• Make recommendations to buyers for expansion and contraction of existing products/programs and promotions based on store profiles and store sales data.
• Identify sales trends or store profile changes for core products/programs and make store/item combination change recommendations when opening new stores or assisting in store renovations.
• Report analytics and identify actions needed to support margin, sales and sell through of product.
Knowledge & Experience
• Must be flexible enough to identify and interpret changing trends, convert those findings into buying strategies, effectively communicate proposed strategy changes to cross-functional team members and drive the business.
• Must be collaborative while balancing the confidence to remain steadfast on decisions as needed.
• Listens attentively and is receptive to other perspectives, incorporating this feedback in decision making.
• Ability to adapt well to changes in direction and priority in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
• Works consistently and productively, showing strong concentration and discipline.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with partners, follow up and create a collaborative work environment.
• Is positive, self-motivated and proactive.
• Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of retail math – must be a “numbers” person.
• Experienced in Microsoft Office suite and familiarity with internal merchandising, inventory and reporting tools a plus (including Business Intelligence, Corporate Reporting Center, IMM, IM2, 1010 data, Data Warehouse, other analytical tools).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with at least 3 years of experience in retail analysis.
• Strong analytical skills. Ability to think critically and communicate complex thoughts and/or ideas in clear and concise manner. (Moved this to Position Requirements).
• Works collaboratively with cross functional partners.
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