Inventory Merchandiser – Allocation Planner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take charge of initial stock distribution across five retail locations and online commerce.

• Offer assortment and intake planning insights to the Product and Buying teams.

• Facilitate replenishment and identify areas for increased inventory depth for fast-selling items.

• Suggest inter-store stock transfers to address understock, overstock, and availability issues.

• Oversee store capacity planning efforts.

• Keep track of size and SKU-level availability, including broken size curves and missing core sizes.

• Evaluate sell-through rates, weeks of cover, stock turnover, sales rates, and aging inventory.

• Manage the recurring weekly inventory merchandising process.

• Generate prioritized actions for allocation, replenishment, transfers, store capacity, and reordering.

• Maintain stock-action queues and monitor execution with Warehouse Operations and Retail teams.

• Enhance stock productivity across both physical stores and e-commerce platforms.

• Operate, quality-assure, and analyze the existing inventory model.

• Identify exceptions or weaknesses in the model and collaborate with the Founder and the Business Systems & Technology Operations to refine decision-making logic.

• Drive measurable advancements in stock availability, best-seller capture, replenishment speed, stock turnover, reduction of aged stock, capacity productivity, stock balance, buying signals, action execution, and reliability of the inventory model.

• Minimize the routine inventory decision-making dependence on the Founder's involvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in inventory merchandising.

• Background in assortment, option, or range planning, including converting category performance and capacity into intake recommendations.

• Experience in store capacity planning.

• Proven track record in multi-store stock allocation.

• Ownership experience in replenishment processes.

• Experience in balancing stock between stores.

• Proficiency in sell-through, stock cover, and stock turnover analysis.

• Management experience of size and SKU-level availability.

• Ability to translate analysis into actionable commercial stock strategies.

• Experience in both physical retail and e-commerce settings.

• Skills in managing overstock, understock, and aging inventory.

• Capacity to make informed merchandising decisions even with incomplete or conflicting data.

• High level of confidence in working directly with large, formula-driven Excel models.

• Proficient in navigating complex workbooks, understanding formulas, distinguishing raw inputs, calculated fields, and manual overrides, as well as utilizing lookups, pivots, filters, and conditional logic.

• Ability to troubleshoot formula or output issues and maintain existing models without disrupting downstream logic.

• Comfort in using, understanding, analyzing, and safely enhancing an established operating model.

• Experience in fashion or apparel is highly preferred.

• Comparable multi-store specialty retail experience may be considered, particularly if allocation, replenishment, capacity, SKU-level, and omnichannel expertise are exceptionally strong.

• Comfortable using AI as a practical tool while maintaining accountability for commercial merchandising decisions and validating outputs.

• Availability to work primarily within UK business hours, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5:30pm UK time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote or offshore working arrangement.

• Opportunity to collaborate directly with the Founder/CEO and cross-functional teams.

• Chance to enhance proprietary merchandising systems and decision-making logic.

• Access to AI-augmented tools to support analysis, exception handling, quality assurance, and decision preparation.