The Divisional Allocation Manager is responsible for leading, motivating, training and developing a team of Allocation Analysts to ensure they’re providing thoughtful store analysis that places the right product in the right stores at the right time. prThis role is instrumental in driving sales and margin for the company through management and optimization of inventory. The Divisional Allocation Manager is a highly collaborative role that partners closely with a variety of cross functional teams, such as Buying, Planning, Visual Merchandising and Supply Chain. We’re looking for an allocation expert with at least 1-2 years of experience in a relevant allocation system. This individual should effectively exhibit JD Finish Line’s core values of Customer, People, Winning, Community, and Financial Responsibility in everything they do while performing the following main duties:

• Directly supervises 6-8 employees including interviewing and training employees, planning, assigning and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Assists in training of all new Allocation Analysts, including 30, 60 and 90-day check ins.
• Sets and monitors productivity standards and inventory service level performance.
• Proposes actions to recover risk and maximize opportunities in alignment with the Senior Director of Allocation, Senior Directors of Planning and SVP of Planning & Allocation, at a department/store/brand/category level.
• Oversees category replenishment by proactively making adjustment recommendations based on sales trends, seasonality factors, visual merchandising strategies, and business needs.
• Determines category preseason allocation strategies and communicates to Allocation Analysts on team.
• Collaborates with other Divisional Allocation Managers to ensure consistency of information, shared best practices and development of system knowledge.
• Able to create ad hoc reports to support business; inclusive of, but not limited to, weekly sales and inventory reports to identify top stores and SKUs, as well as under-performing stores and SKUs.
• Builds constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners.
• Able to perform day to day allocation tasks, as well as ensuring best practices are being followed in the allocation system.
• Additional duties and projects as required.

Required Education and/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Additional 3-5 years of previous merchandising/allocation experience required. Candidates with JD Finish Line experience strongly preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Computer and/or Technical Skills

Should have at least intermediate knowledge and abilities with a relevant allocation system, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and should have basic to intermediate knowledge and abilities with Google suite software, and competence in learning how to maximize the use of new software.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for more than 6 hours per shift
• Use hands to finger, handle and feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talk and/or hear
• Stand for up to 4 hours at a time regularly
• Walk or move from one location to another
• Periodically may need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally
• Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the company’s policies are required for this position.
• The average work week is 40-50 hours, which can vary depending on business needs.
• The work environment for this position is a moderately noisy office setting.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per the company policy.