Key Responsibilities
1. Stock Monitoring throughout the Product Lifecycle
- Planification, monitoring and optimisation of deliveries with Customer Service
- Updating and communicating a cross-metier delivery calendar for Retail Merchandisers, Retail Operations, Central Supply and Stores
- Creating central and in-store performance and stock reporting per Metier for Retail Merchandisers and Stores
- Suggestion and implementation of stock corrective actions (including retention or ordering needs, rebalancing, etc.)
2. Deported and Cross-Dock Stock Management
- Working with Retail Operations, Stock teams and the Warehouse to define and update the process per store and per Metier: cross-dock vs. retention, min max in store, frequency of replenishment
- Coordination of day-to-day replenishment with all counterparts, sharing visibility on upcoming deliveries and stock situation
- Regular sharing with Retail Merchandisers on stock situation and store requests, warehouse challenges and suggested corrective actions (e.g., rebalancing within the subsidiary)
- Follow up on actions with all counterparts
3. PSI and Assortment Management
- Collaboration with Retail Merchandiser for PSI catalogue and definition of minimum and maximum stock levels
- Suggestion and implementation of stock corrective actions (including updating PSI and Assortments, adapting min max, etc.)
- Reporting and Forecasting on PSI and Assortment SKUs for Metiers, Europe and Retail Merchandisers
- Coordination of day-to-day operations on these SKUs to ensure smooth automatic replenishment to Warehouse and Store
4. Bulk Stock Management
- Definition with Retail Merchandising of SKUs to be purchased in bulk stock
- Work on collaborative Demand based forecast with Retail Merchandisers
- Definition of central / in store stock target levels for products managed in bulk stock in close collaboration with Warehouse, Retail Operations and Stores
- Coordination of day-to-day replenishment with all counterparts, sharing visibility on upcoming deliveries and stock situation
- Regular sharing with Retail Merchandisers on stock situation and store requests, warehouse challenges and suggested corrective actions (e.g., reorder, transfer in/out, etc.)
- Coordination of day-to-day operations on these SKUs to ensure smooth automatic replenishment to Warehouse and Store
5. Projects
- Participate actively in all Group projects aiming to build a strong and efficient Supply Chain for the future (including SAP Retail)
- Actively contribute to Europe & Middle East Retail Planning projects
Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in business management, logistics or a related field
- 4 to 6 years experience working in retail supply, product allocation, retail merchandising
- Team player, flexible, with good interpersonal skills
- Analytical, structured and organised, with attention to detail
- Comfortable handling large & complex data sets from different sources
- Able to prioritize to tight deadlines and sometimes changing priorities and convey results in a concise and pedagogical way
- Capable of coordinating projects with many counterparts
- Service-oriented and action-focused
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (at ease with V-lookups, index match and pivot tables)
- At ease with IT systems in general (knowledge of SAP and CEGID are a plus)
- Eager to learn
- Ability to build the project from scratch
- Fluent English and Turkish (French is a plus)
** Job responsibilities and functions are not limited to the above and may change throughout employment.