Director, Planning & Allocation Technology

Vuori is one of the fastest-growing apparel brands in the world and the way we plan and allocate product has to keep pace. Were looking for a technically strong product leader to own the strategy and roadmap for our merchandise planning and allocation capabilities spanning pre-season and in-season planning top-down and bottom-up and how inventory flows to our stores and distribution centers. Youll partner with Data Science to put machine learning and advanced forecasting into the hands of our planners work closely with Merchandising and Planning leadership to shape how that work actually gets done and lead and grow a small team of Product Managers and Analysts. This is a role for someone as energized by explainability and user adoption as by the technology itself because the best forecast in the world doesnt move the business if planners dont trust it. 

What youll get to do: 

• Own the product roadmap for our merchandise planning and allocation capabilities prioritizing business impact technical feasibility and adoption of readiness. 
• Partner with Data Science as a technical peer to develop and productionize forecasting capabilities machine learning models probabilistic forecasting and attribute-based new-item demand modeling and own the explainability requirements that make planners trust them. 
• Drive adoption of system-generated forecasts as a primary measure of success and establish forecast accuracy and forecast value-add measurement so model performance and business impact stay visible. 
• Partner with Planning Merchandising and Technology leadership to evolve the planning and allocation operating model around human-in-the-loop decision-making helping define what the system decides what the planner decides and where exceptions escalate. 
• Keep a pulse on emerging technology across planning forecasting and AI assessing what is genuinely production-ready and building it into the roadmap on a realistic timeline. 
• Own the product requirements for the data foundation behind planning intelligence partnering with Data Engineering on pipeline timing data quality and the data products forecasting and allocation depend on. 
• Lead coach and develop a small team of Product Managers and Analysts raising the bar on technical fluency requirements of quality and outcome of ownership. 
• Collaborate with on/offshore development partners on solution design and delivery and represent planning and allocation priorities in agile ceremonies and quarterly planning. 

Qualifications :

Who you are:

• 10 years in product management analytics or planning technology with meaningful exposure to retail merchandise planning allocation or demand forecasting. 
• 2 years managing or mentoring product managers or analysts with the communication skills to explain technical trade-offs to merchants and planners and business trade-offs to engineers and data scientists. 
• You have shipped a machine learning or advanced analytics capability into a business users day-to-day workflow not a dashboard and not a proof of concept that stalled. 
• Technically fluent in forecasting: comfortable discussing model approaches error metrics (WMAPE bias forecast value add) probabilistic versus point forecasts and the trade-offs between accuracy and interpretability. 
• Strong working knowledge of merchandise planning and allocation pre-season and in-season top-down and bottom-up open-to-buy receipt flow and store/DC allocation. 
• Experience working with on/offshore development teams in an Agile environment (JIRA sprint and quarterly planning) plus hands-on familiarity with enterprise planning platforms (Anaplan o9 RELEX Blue Yonder Board or similar) from a data model and configuration perspective. Working knowledge of SQL is a plus. 
• Bachelors degree or equivalent years of experience preferred. 

Additional Information :

Our investment in you:

At Vuori were proud to offer the following to our employees: 

• Health Insurance 
• Savings and Retirement Plan  
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks 
• Paid Time Off  
• Wellness & Fitness benefits  

The salary range for this role is $181200 per year - $242550 per year. This role is bonus eligible. 

Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time