VF

Operates global apparel, footwear, accessories brands

Channel Planner & Allocator

Inventory Management +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

At least 3-5 years of related experience.
A bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Business, Statistical Analysis, or Apparel.
Advanced understanding of retail mathematics and Open to Buy.
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments.
Good interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to make decisions and take calculated risks.
Strong organization and planning skills, with the ability to deliver results according to process and timeline.
Ability to turn data and analytics into information that informs and influences decision-making.
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Ability to interact and communicate with employees at all levels, both senior and junior.
Flexibility to change business processes and ways of working.
Self-awareness and a desire for constant self-improvement and goal orientation.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to adopt VF systems, including SAP and BI, and tools such as Tableau.
Fluency in Japanese and English.

Responsibilities

Lead and own inventory management strategies, including allocation, replenishment, consolidation, store capacity, and product life-cycle management, to maximize sales, margin, and inventory targets.
Identify, develop, and implement process improvements to deliver efficiencies and make critical decisions that directly impact commercial performance.
Collaborate with the inventory management and commercial teams to formulate in-season inventory strategies and share insights.
Provide data-driven recommendations and analytics to optimize multi-channel inventory and maximize channel sales at the SKU level.
Manage system settings for markdowns and promotions.
Analyze sales and product performance at the store and cluster levels, and provide support and input to the build.
Own and drive pre-season merchandise financial plans, open-to-buy, flow planning, in-season forecasting, and in-season management, including promotional and markdown activity.
Run rolling forecasts using sales-split, markdown, and sell-through assumptions to create seasonal open-to-buy plans across multiple time frames.
Develop seasonal product flow plans in collaboration with the Merchandising and Buying functions.
Analyze store plans and provide feedback to the marketplace team during monthly, seasonal, and yearly planning processes.
Identify weekly year-to-go forecasts, risks, and opportunities with the marketplace team.
Review sales trends, forecast ending inventory, identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions to address risks.
Monitor the business through analytics and identify actions to achieve key performance metrics.

Role & Responsibilities:

Job Definition (Key Purpose of the Job):

Thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong proficiency in excel with strong business acumen, and will play a key role in optimizing sales, forecasting inventory needs, and identifying opportunities to maximize growth.

Lead & own inventory management strategies, including allocation, replenishment, consolidation, store capacity and product life cycle management to maximize sales, margin and inventory targets.

Allocator Key Result Areas:

Identify, develop and implement process improvement opportunities to deliver efficiencies and making critical decisions that directly impact commercial performance.
Collaborate and share insights to inventory management team & commercial team in formulating in-season inventory strategies
Provide data driven recommendations & analytics to optimize multi-channel inventory and maximize channel sales at SKU level.
Manage system setting for markdown and promotion
Analyze sales and product performance at both store and cluster level, provide support and input to the build.

Channel Planner Key Result Areas:

Own and Drive pre-season merchandise financial plans, open to buy, flow planning, in-season forecast and in season management including promotional/markdown activity.
Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-thru assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame
Developing the seasonal product flow plan in collaboration with Merchandising and Buying function
Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process
Identifying weekly MTG YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team
Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk.
Consistently monitoring the business through analytics and identifying actions to achieve the key performance metrics.

Competency Requirements:

Advance understanding retail mathematics and Open to Buy
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments
Good communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal
Entrepreneurship – an ability to make decisions and take calculated risks
Strong organization and planning skills; ability to deliver results to a process and timeline
Ability to turn data and analytics into information to inform and influence decision-making
Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior
Flexibility to change business process, way of working.
Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement(goal-oriented)

List down specific set of functional skills required to perform in this role

MS Office (Excel /PowerPoint)
VF system (SAP, Bi, etc) & Tools (Tableau) adoption

Experience

Minimum Relevant Experience: At least 3-5 years related experience

Academic Qualifications

Minimum Degree Held: Bachelor

Subject Expert In: Mathematic/Business/Statistical analysis/Apparel

Certifications Required: N/A

Language Proficiency:

Fluent in: Japanese / English

Specific Working Conditions

Frequency of Travel: 10%

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About the Company

VF

Operates global apparel, footwear, accessories brands

VF Corporation coordinates a global portfolio of apparel, footwear, and accessories brands with a focus on outdoor, active, and workwear. The company’s products span clothing, footwear, and accessories under recognizable names like The North Face, Vans, Timberland, and Dickies. It operates through multiple channels, selling wholesale to mass merchants, specialty stores, and department stores, while also running direct-to-consumer options via VF-owned stores, concessions, and e-commerce. VF differentiates itself by combining a large, diversified brand roster with an omnichannel strategy and an internal venture arm (VF Venture Foundry) that tests new platforms, services, and experiences. Its goal is to grow its brands and revenue by expanding its direct-to-consumer presence, optimizing its multi-channel distribution, and evolving the business to respond to market changes.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Denver, CO
Founded: 1899

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