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ABOUT POSITION
Department: Planning Report Line: DTC Planning Head
POSITION SUMMARY
The Manager, Allocation is responsible fdriving inventory productivity, sales performance, consumer experience across Under Armour China BrHouse (BH) Factory House (FH) stores. This role develops executes allocation, replenishment, inventory deployment strategies to ensure the right product is available at the right location at the right time. The position partners closely with Merchandising, Planning, Retail Operations, Supply Chain teams to optimize inventory investment support commercial objectives.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Allocation & Inventory Management
• Develop execute allocation replenishment strategies fChina BH FH stores.
• Optimize inventory deployment across stores based on sales trends, inventory productivity, consumer demand.
• Manage seasonal product launches, replenishment activities, promotional events, end-of-season inventory transitions.
• Drive inventory balancing through store allocations, replenishment, transfer activities.
• Ensure healthy inventory levels while maximizing product availability minimizing stock imbalances.
Business Performance & Inventory Productivity
• Monitanalyze key metrics including sales, sell-through, stock turn, weeks of supply, size broken rate, in-stock rates.
• Identify risks opportunities recommend actions to improve inventory productivity commercial performance.
• Support demand-driven inventory decisions to maximize full-price sell-through in BH optimize inventory flow FH.
• Develop store cluster level inventory action plans to improve productivity consumer experience.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Planning, Merchandising, Retail Operations, Visual Merchandising, Supply Chain teams to align inventory strategies with business goals.
• Support key business initiatives, including product launches, seasonal transitions, store openings, promotional events.
• Partner with field teams to understlocal dempatterns regional inventory opportunities.
Process & Systems Excellence
• Ensure timely accurate execution of allocation replenishment activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve allocation logic, reporting capabilities, inventory management processes.
• Drive adoption of best practices continuous process improvement.
Team Leadership
• Lead develop the Allocation team to deliver business objectives.
• Coach mentteam members to build strong analytical commercial capabilities.
• Foster a collaborative, data-driven, results-oriented culture.
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QUALIFICATIONS (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITES)
• Bachelor’s degree above
• 5-8 years of experience in Allocation, Retail Planning, Inventory Management, strong Microsoft Excel skills familiar with JDA system
• Pripeople management experience preferred.
• Experience in apparel, footwear, sporting goods, specialty retail industry preferred.
• Strong understanding of retail KPIs, inventory productivity, demand-driven allocation strategies.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills.
• Strong commercial acumen inventory management expertise.
• Excellent communication stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced retail environment.
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