Job description

This position is responsible for executing the company's replenishment and inventory allocation policies, objectives, and initiatives in order to achieve sales goals. Analyzes store sales patterns to determine optimal replenishment levels across all merchandise categories and coordinate with Demand Planners and Category Teams, and Supply Chain partners to achieve instock and sales order coverage objectives.
Key Metrics

• Store Instock Rates
• Store Turns
• Sales order Coverage
• Projects and supporting objectives as assigned

Duties and Responsibilities:
Leadership and Development

• Serve as a primary point of contact for merchandising, inventory, and field management in support of store replenishment processes.
• Represent Store Planning in cross-functional meetings and project groups with focus on New Store opening process.
• Assume planning lead in new store process to ensure initial setup, planogram fill, and stocking levels.
• Coordinate with project managers and report out to team on execution and exception management.

Inventory Shipment & Placement

• Collaborate with the Transportation/Allocation planners, identifying issues and ensuring regular shipping coverage is maintained.
• Coordinate special requests with field management, store ops, and new store team.
• Interact with Distribution to support demand planning and projection of short-term outbound shipment volume.
• Backup allocation as needed for planning and store support.
• Update planning databases and shared team files that support planning and RP functions.

Inventory Planning

• Support the company inventory objectives by driving the reorder point update processes including exception reviews, special requests, and assortment changes.
• Perform two major bi-annual flooring reviews.
• Perform monthly re-alignment updates.
• Communicate monthly changes to Inventory Team.
• Utilize JDA and SAP to analyze and plan store level inventory targets, providing reporting on stock usage, inventory levels, and forecasting that support store cluster.
• Make recommendations as needed to support changes in trends, assortments, and store capacity.
• Prepare for and participate in the following group meetings reporting out as needed on allocation plans, inventory status, and issues.
• Weekly POD meeting – assigned group
• Merchandise Plan Review
• Monthly Regional Manager Discussion
• Review and report out on order coverage data monthly and establish plans of action as needed for implementation.
• Review weekly Instock exceptions and execute corrective action as needed.
• Coordinate promotional builds for high volume events.
• Establish inventory plans for new stores based on cluster and POG assignment.

Store Support

• Interact with Transportation Team as needed to ensure shipment schedules are supporting inventory targets.
• Investigate and follow-up on store order issues as needed to support customer service.
• Conduct monthly inventory planning updates with Regional Managers and participate in regional store calls as needed.
• Research and follow-up on any issues impacting store replenishment

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to present information in writing and to speak effectively before groups of customers, clients and other members of the organization.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume
• Demonstrates excellent sound judgment by making effective decisions and being able to support decisions with facts. Includes others in decision-making process and makes decisions in a timely manner.
• Ability to work individually or cooperatively in a team environment.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks to achieve results within assigned deadlines.
• Proactively assist others. Step in and help when and as needed
• Execute special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
• Ability to solve problems and apply creative and timely solutions.
• Attendance and reliability is extremely important in this position
• Customer Focus – Establish and maintain effective customer relationships. Seek to understand customer needs and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.
• Accountability – Follow through on commitments. Take personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures.
• Collaboration – Cooperate with others to achieve shared objectives and get work done. Consider interests of others as well as one’s own.
• Instill Trust – Show consistency in word and action. Treat others with respect. Operate with honesty and integrity.
• Change Management – Adaptable to a fast paced, shifting work environment; willing to remain flexible to accommodate changing business conditions, work requirements, customer and scheduling needs.
• Detail Oriented – Attention to detail, ability to focus on the project or task at hand, adherence to Company policies and requirements while consistently delivering error free results.
• Leads by example in following the Company Code of Business Conduct (Ethics), all applicable tenants of the Lacey Act and all other applicable laws, policies and procedures. Immediately reports all concerns to the appropriate party.

Other Physical Requirements:

• Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception)
• Ability to effectively communicate with others

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (BA / BS) from accredited four-year college or university.

Related Experience, Qualifications and/or Certifications:

• Three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Prior inventory management or inventory allocation experience required.

Computer Skills / Special Equipment Knowledge:

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required including ability to use compound formulas, lookups, and pivot tables. Access and database management preferred.
• Experience with SAP preferred.
• Experience with JDA or other forecasting and replenishment software preferred

Just Picture It! A career at LL Flooring! At LL Flooring, our vision is to become customers' first choice in hard surface flooring by providing the best experience from start to finish. Your contributions as a LL Flooring teammate will leave a lasting impression with our customer as they find FLOOR LOVE. With over 437 stores nationwide and two distribution centers, the career opportunities at LL Flooring are endless. If you're customer obsessed, seize the opportunity, and apply today!

At LL Flooring, we are committed to being a company that delivers an inclusive, diverse team and culture which understands, values, and adapts to the needs of our associates and customers. LL Flooring is an equal opportunity employer. LL Flooring does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law. If you need assistance or to request a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, related to the search for employment opportunities or to complete an application, please contact us at recruiting@llflooring.com LL Flooring adheres with the California Consumer Privacy Act Notice for California Consumers (CCPA Notice). To find out more click here, CCPA Supplemental Notice.

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