Analyst, Assortment Management

Ross Stores, Inc. is a leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores and a commitment to diversity and growth. The Assortment Analyst supports the management team by collaborating with merchants and planners to shape assortment strategies through analytics, optimizing sales and inventory results.

Responsibilities

• Complete the discovery to collaborate and strategize with Merchant partners on business and assortment opportunities
• Identify and conduct high level analytics to support business needs
• Seasonal Strategies
• Business Events
• Ad Hoc requests
• Define and implement allocation approaches that result in an optimal inventory mix to improve the customer experience
• Participate in field visits to assess allocation results and identify assortment opportunities
• Collaborate with Planning partners to resolve issues that address plan achievement
• Identify issues impacting inventory plan achievement and develop recommendations for improvement
• Manage and drive allocation automation to support timely receipt processing
• Ensure allocation department tools are current and accurate
• Validate automated allocation approaches
• Support allocation execution through accurate and timely use of system applications

Skills

• 1-2 years equivalent work experience
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Efficient verbal and written communication skills
• Retail Math
• Ability to independently analyze data sets to solve problems and summarize recommendations
• Bachelor's Degree, preferred
• Retail software experience, a plus (JDA or Other Allocation Software)

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