Free People · 1 week ago
Free People DTC & Retail Strategy Analyst
Philadelphia, PA
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry LevelFree People is looking for a DTC & Retail Strategy Analyst who will support planning and allocation to maximize sales, profit, and operating income. The role involves developing inventory strategies, overseeing special projects, and collaborating with various teams to enhance retail performance.
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Responsibilities
Work with manager to analyze, monitor, and execute all retail store budgeting activities as part of the annual budgeting process, including recommending category expansions or reductions for existing and new stores. Provide monthly reforecasts by store from a bottoms up approach to tie to top down metrics. Monitor performance by store region, district, comp status and new stores
Support planning team by retrieving large amounts of dense data to solve complex business problems. Organize and format data to make recommendations to drive sales and margin
Support the purchase order split process between channel and country, overseeing size scales by destination country and channel. Follow up with appropriate buying partners to make sure split targets are met
Demonstrate an understanding of managing inventory between channels: US domestic, international direct and international stores. Recommend inventory balancing between channels
Collaborate with Store regionals and Director of Stores to analyze field recommendations for improving retail business. Be a key liaison between the home office and the store organization. Investigate inventory concerns, sales-driving special events and transfer requests from the field. Provide feedback and appropriate actions
Recommend and partner with the P&A team to establish new automatic replenishment programs and aid in the justification for expanding shared / omni inventory strategies
Provide inventory / assortment management direction to Planning and Allocation team that align with store demographic / volume grouping profiles. Drive improvements in supply chain to include pre-packing goods, ideal splits between DC’s by category and multi-DC backstock positioning
Perform ad hoc sales and margin analysis to unearth new opportunities to drive operating income
Support the weekly markdown process
Become an expert in core business systems to offer support to the planning and allocation teams, such as Microstrategy, Island Pacific, Warehouse Management and MID allocation
Participate in retail Buy and OTB meetings as needed
Monitor and report on the inventory allocation into new store openings and relocations. Identify shortfalls to inventory plans and work with merchandising and allocation to build out the assortment to targets. Follow up on inventory flow to store from shipping from the DC through the store opening
Communicate inventory needs for special, store level opportunities that are not visible at the top line to the planning and allocation teams
Coordinate all internal reporting needs for International Direct and Retail endeavors
Closely monitor business results for our Canadian business and recommend actions to improve those businesses each month (including product extensions / reductions, MD’s, retail price changes, etc)
Develop best practices within the MID allocation tool to support our Free People brick and mortar stores abroad. Develop replenishment tools as needed by developing a process that can scale to larger store counts
Qualification
Required
Strong financial and analytical skills
Very eager to learn
Can juggle multiple priorities at the same time
Result oriented with an eye for an extreme attention to detail
Creative problem solver, 'outside the box' thinker with the ability to work in ambiguity
Strong communication skills and work well in cross functional teams
Advanced Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, index/match etc)
Preferred
Experience in Microsoft Access and/or VBA is beneficial
Bachelor's in Finance or Business related degree preferred
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
PTO
Generous employee discounts
Retirement savings
Much more
Company
Free People
Free People is an online clothing store.
Founded in 2004
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Allison Mcghee
Business Assistant to the CEO of Free People and Global CEO of Urban Outfitters Group
Ana Hartl
Chief Creative Officer
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