To act as a business partner for North Asia stores, orchestrating the inventory distribution for the Ready-to-Wear / Shoes / Watches & Jewelry categories. This role is central to achieving service excellence, optimizing stock quality, and driving business success through robust analytical skills, a strong commercial mindset, and deep collaboration with Merchandising, Logistics, and Retail teams.
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
- Manage the RTW, Shoes, and Watches & Jewelry categories in collaboration with Zone Merchandising and Central Supply Chain teams.
- Develop and maintain robust distribution processes to support business objectives, with potential transversal actions involved.
- Oversee end-of-life and obsolete product management.
- Produce reports on Product category performances.
INVENTORY DISTRIBUTION, OPTIMIZATION & FLOW MANAGEMENT
- Partner with stores, Merchandising, and Market teams to ensure timely and appropriate inventory distribution of RTW, Shoes, and Watches & Jewelry to North Asia stores.
- Optimize product availability by define and maintain appropriate stock targets for each store to balance inventory levels, avoiding both overstock and understock situations.
- Support stores' turnover targets by proactively planning and assessing store requests.
- Manage distribution flows for all product types (seasonal, carry-over, permanent) and respond to special store requests in a timely manner.
- Determine and execute necessary reverse logistics, including rebalancing, overstock, and obsolete product flows.
- Coordinate with the Logistics team to address transportation issues and constraints.
- Determines and implements necessary reverse flows, including Rebalancing, Overstocks, Obsoletes.
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
- Collaborate daily with other distribution planners to manage warehouse workload capacity and arbitrate priorities.
- Contribute to mid-term assessments of warehouse storage requirements.
STORE OPENING / POP UP / EVENTS
- Ensure successful preparation and logistics for store openings, pop-ups, and events by working closely with Retail, Visual Merchandising, Warehouse, RPM
- Facilitate a clear understanding of processes for all participants involved in store openings and events.
COMMUNICATIONS
- Builds collaborative and trusting working relationships with the markets, in order to be able to anticipate the events and seasonalities of the stores
- Proactively share stock information, targets, and prioritization guidelines with Store Management, Logistics, Sales Administration, and Warehouse teams.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT & PROJECTS
- Continuously seek to improve client services by ensuring commitment and support of all the teams involved (Supply Chain and Logistics team, Merchandising team, Retail Performance Management, Network, Finance, IS...)
- Participate in global Metiers, IS, Supply Chain and Logistics process optimization and automation projects
OPERATIONS
- Conduct regular store visits to understand operational context, gather feedback, and build trust with store teams.
- Participate in store manager meetings when possible, to better understand market needs and improve the understanding of supply chain flows.
