Associate Inventory Planning Manager - HOKA

Job description

• Act as an interface between business team and operation team for HOKA brand.
• Play an active role to drive inventory optimization to achieve company's target for both top line and bottom line.
• Set up purchasing strategy, including purchasing qty, pacing and delivery schedule, contribute to rationalization of supply.
• Communicate with global supply planning team to build a reasonable and achievable local buy plan. Bring a reconciliation of the impact from demand change or launch change.
• Issue monthly purchase order, work with factory planning team and logistic team for the on-time delivery. Pre-alert delay issue to merchandising team and sales team for adjusting launch plan and sales plan.
• Optimize the end-to-end supply planning through advanced planning project. 30% China buy plan / order status updating
• Work out seasonal China local buy plan according to product launch, production lead-time and China buy structure.
• Lead the alignment with category merchandising team if there is any gap between product launch and estimated supply schedule before the buy.
• Work out seasonal China order detail after order collection.
• Monthly share most update order status file with wholesale / DTC / merchandising / Marketing team according to latest buy plan and buy result. 35% Monthly buy execution
• Define monthly buy items based on monthly global buy plan and China order detail.
• Regarding the carryover products, the inventory supervision and the calculation of used stock
• Lead local sourcing the end-to-end full-chain procurement
• Maintain O9 SP for system visibility and buy execution.
• Provide detail buy list to global supply planning and purchasing team for PO placement.
• Take the lead on drop risk with merchandising / wholesale / DTC / marketing team during monthly buy process due to global MOQ issue and work out solution.
• Work with global supply planning team to share China decision on MOQ issues. 20% Post buy tracking
• Work with factory planning and logistics team on PO delivery plan.
• Carry out separate information maintenance and tracking for the request launch PO.
• Set up regular meetings with commercial team to share delivery status and align action plan.
• Prioritize supply to channels after aligning with commercial team, which is caused by delay, supply shortage and partial delivery.
• Maintenance and supervision of the GTN system with PO detail information adjustment 15% Process and system enhancement
• Play a key role as SME of O9 SP system for not only daily execution, but continuous enhancement by working with IT and global supply planning team.
• Regular meeting with global supply planning and factory planning team to share more China voice for business support (special buy timeline etc.)
• Monthly dashboard preparation and continuously work with IT team on reporting digitalization.