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.