What are the responsibilities and job description for the Urban Outfitters Allocator position at URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly)?
Urban Outfitters is looking for an analytical, collaborative, and customer focused individual to support allocating goods to stores. The Allocator is an operational role working with multiple teams across the organization, including the Planning, Buying, Operations, and Distribution teams. With the key objective of managing inventory at the store level to maximize sales and achieve financial objectives for their respective division and total company.
Role Responsibilities
URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits
EEO Statement
URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.
Role Responsibilities
- Meet or exceed sales, gross margin and inventory turn goals
- Execute the Allocations of initial inventories and in-season replenishment to stores
- Recap and communicate location and size selling performance
- Collaborate with buying team on basic replenishment styles to meet in-stock targets
- Ensure timely and accurate execution of new store openings
- Develop knowledge of geographic and store-attribute performance and trends through data analysis and field communication
- Participate in OTB, Strategy, and Hindsight meetings, contributing input on distribution strategies
- Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge
- Support store needs (inventory/replenishment) as they are communicated from our Store Planning partners
- Visit stores on a regular basis to understand site specific opportunities
- Minimum 2 years Allocation experience
- High Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Basic knowledge of retail math concepts and applications
- Strong statistical analysis skills
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent organizational, prioritizing and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well within a team environment
URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits
EEO Statement
URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.