Ross Stores, Inc. is a leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, committed to providing high-quality brands at extraordinary savings. The Assortment Analyst will support assortment strategies through analytics, collaborating with merchants and planning teams to optimize sales and inventory results while managing allocation 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
• 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

• 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)

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