31 Aug
Brand Collective
Sydney
About Brand Collective:
At Brand Collective, we bring brands to life! This is something we continue to strive towards with our iconic stable of brands including Shoes & Sox, Reebok, Superdry, Review, Clarks, Hush Puppies, Shoes Warehouse, Volley, Julius Marlow, Mossimo, Elka Collective, Black Pepper and many more!
About Shoes & Sox:
Shoes & Sox is the leading children’s footwear specialist retailer. It’s what we do together that makes us special. We are a family - supporting you through every step of life’s journey. A career adventure with Shoes & Sox is the opportunity to be empowered to bring your best self to work each day. As part of the iconic Brand Collective network,
we create career and customer experiences that enrich the lives of children throughout our 80+ stores in Australia and beyond.
The opportunity:
A career adventure with Shoes & Sox is the opportunity to be empowered to bring your best self to work each day. As part of the iconic Brand Collective network, we create career and customer experiences that enrich the lives of children throughout our 80+ stores in Australia and beyond.
The purpose of this role is to allocate stock and manage replenishments to ensure balanced stock and product assortment within stores, to achieve business KPIs such as sales budgets, gross profit, gross profit percentage, and stock turns.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Allocate to agreed timelines and ensure delivery targets are met.
- Ensuring that model stocks and/or rate of sale is correctly managed from the allocation plan, by store, by style, by size in the system.
- Manage stock levels of the categories, ensuring the right mix and depth of product, reviewing best sellers, and advising on of poor performers.
- Manage stock requirements in store to meet variances in demand and promotional calendars, i.e. BTS, EID and Black Friday/Boxing Day Sale
- Provide weekly stock allocation updates to the relevant business unit (stores, marketing, merchandise)
- Overall support in the planning department with general admin and ad hoc tasks to ensure a smooth workflow and meeting of targets.
- Working with Planners in optimising stock flow/allocation efficiency e.g. ratio packs, Xdock, Carton quantities
- Prepare, monitor, follow-up and communicate the warehouse dispatch and outstanding report to ensure smooth flow of allocations to stores, taking appropriate action.
- Compile and publish the Intake Report daily.
- Prepare and present new store opening range plans as required.
- Assist stores with any ad hoc queries regarding product, stocks, and customer requirements.
- Ensure monthly store visits are conducted to gain insight into customer, results of allocations done and identifying opportunities.
- Ensure that knowledge and application of our systems is kept up to date.
- Communicate promptly and effectively and with business partners like our Stores, IT, DC, Marketing, E-commerce.
- Manage own personal development and growth through being involved in the department and in being aware of strengths and challenges to ensure that appropriate support is sought in striving to improve performance.
The skills and experience you offer us:
- You have previous retail/wholesale planning experience within a similar role for a period of 1-2 years
- You are looking for a challenge
- You are eager to deep dive into the world of retail
- You are positive and energetic; no task is too big or too small
- You are a team player
The perks we offer you:
- A great culture fuelled by our passionate and diverse team
- Pet friendly workspace - yes, you can bring your dog to work!
- Generous discounts for you and your family across Brand Collective's entire stable of brands!
- Invitations to epic sample sales
- Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers (based on eligibility), volunteer leave and blood donation leave
- Purchased Leave program (ability to purchase an additional two weeks of leave per year, based on eligibility)
- Novated Leasing
- Floating Holidays - provides team members with the option to work on certain state based public holidays and take a different day off in lieu
- Reward and recognition program as well as generous service awards
- Recruitment referral incentives for permanent positions
- Exclusive benefits platform - access to generous savings from leading retailers like Woolworths, Amazon and Myer
- Learning and development – we want you to grow and get the most out of your role!
- BC Wellness Hub - Monthly wellbeing webinars, individual coaching and an Employee Assistance Program with free access to Mental Health Professionals for when times are tough
At Brand Collective our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we! We value diversity and inclusion in all forms, thus hire based on capability and performance. If you feel like your skills align with the role and company culture, apply with your current CV and Cover Letter. For bonus points,
tell us why this role excites you in an optional video cover letter.
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