Ross Stores, Inc. is a leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, committed to providing a fun shopping experience. The Assortment Analyst will support merchants and planning teams to optimize sales and inventory through analytics and execution of assortment strategies.
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
- 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
- Bachelor's Degree, preferred
- 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
- Retail software experience, a plus (JDA or Other Allocation Software)
Company Overview
- For the last 40+ years, Ross Stores, Inc. has grown from a six-store chain into an $21.1 billion, Fortune 500 Company. It was founded in 1957, and is headquartered in Dublin, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://rossstores.com/#.