Global Inventory Trainee

**Order Management**
- Coordinate with Global company-owned and franchise partners on order submissions
- Execute timely order placements, monitor order acceptance, and perform order revisions to vendors
- Maintain and update accurate ship dates, order quantities, costs, and descriptions on purchase orders
- Monitor and track purchase orders, shipping, and receiving activity
- Provide status updates as needed to internal and external stakeholders

**Allocation**
- Learn, monitor, and manage retail allocation parameters and flow quantities to support promotional activity, high-seasonal holidays, markdown replenishment, and in-store events
- Learn how to develop seasonal floor set allocation plans that support purchase order ETA’s, inventory in-stock requirements, and store receiving capacities
- Build allocation strategies to maintain optimum inventory flow to stores based on store-level performance analysis (Department contribution, Regular vs Markdown sales, Bay Counts/Square footage)
- Execute allocations to support Seasonal Floor Sets, Floor Model Counts, and Perimeter/Bay-Count requirements by store group

**Merchandise Planning (Development Track)**

**Pre-Season**:

- Partner planners together with the merchant team to develop annual and seasonal financial plans that support the brand strategies
- Support planners with merchants to establish seasonal assortment roll-up plans
- Learn to analyze business performance, SKU productivity, and trends and provide hind sights to identify opportunities and drive pre-season strategy and assortment plans
- Ensure SKU plans are completed and passed to achieve PO placement deadlines and address any issues that impede this goal for core and seasonal products
- Manage successful placement and accurate tracking of brand Global purchase orders

**In-Season**:

- Participate in business reviews and support merchant team to take appropriate actions to maximize sales, margin, and inventory productivity (daily, weekly, monthly) at all levels
- Support planners with the merchant team to develop 12 monthly rolling financial forecasts
- Learn to analyze inventory levels and ensure inventory ownership supports brand strategy, minimizes stock-outs and manages inventory flow to ensure appropriate in-stock rates are achieved for CORE product and seasonal launches
- Study promotional plans with planners in partnership with the merchant team to update and plan exit strategies
- Liaise with the Order Management team on placement and tracking of Global purchase orders
- Proactively and collaboratively address any shortcomings or opportunities to improve tools and processes

**Reporting and analysis**
- Run weekly/monthly reports for internal and external stakeholders as needed
- Participate in the analysis of shipment timing to support the monthly revenue forecast

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Intermediate competency in Microsoft Excel. Knowledge of Microsoft Access is an advantage
- Meticulous and detail-oriented with strong follow through
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills
- Strong ability to partner and collaborate with all stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize and work in a fast paced, collaborative environment

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of home furnishings in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia, United Kingdom and the rest of the world with franchise partnerships. Our family of brands are Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, and Mark and Graham. Our passion for high-quality products, functional design, outstanding customer service, enhancing the lives of our customers and the communities remains as our core values.

Today, we are a USD 5 billion company, with a multi-brand, multi-channel, global enterprise supported by state-of-the-art technology and some of the most talented teams in retailing - and we're always looking for new energy and ideas.

The Singapore regional office was set up in 2008 and we currently have 140 associates over functions such as corporate social responsibility, customs & compliance, finance, human resource, information technology, inventory planning, logistics, sourcing and quality assurance.

The South East Asia team is an inclusive employer where we recruit and provide employees with fair opportunities on the basis of merit, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, marital status and family responsibilities, or disability.