Director of Planning and Allocations

Buck Mason is looking for a Director of Planning and Allocations who has genuine passion not only for the math behind the numbers, but also the art of the product they’re planning for.  We are interested in candidates who are strategic, love growing the business, their team, and themselves every single day.  The ideal candidate wants to understand and know everything going on with the health of our inventory and product performance, and can speak simply and clearly the actuals and reality of what’s happening with our product.  This candidate will report to the Director of Finance, and be a crucial right-hand partner in building the Planning and Allocations team.

Responsibilities:

• Own the inventory buy process in support of our merchandise calendar on a bi-annual basis, ensuring a buy that aims for high sell-through and includes pre-determined allocation strategy to support our 50(+) points of distribution.
• Support our merchant team in building the line architecture for future seasons, aligning it with our overall product strategy, and is in support of our long-term product goals.
• Assist and be a key business partner in creating internal calendars that support deadlines and due dates for our Seasonless Core and Seasonal Core products.
• Build and maintain accurate demand planning forecasts for our Seasonless Core and Seasonal Core products, ensuring healthy levels of inventory throughout entire year.
• Manage and run all weekly reports on inventory levels, sales, and sell-through.  Not only will you report, but also come with insight and mitigation plans if necessary, and come with upcoming notes on the upcoming product plans for sales channels owners to have foresight of.
• Create Product Sales Plans for each sales channel, for every season, and be the key business partner in helping the business and sales channel owners understand how are sales are performing vs our inventory buys.
• Manage our cut log and WIP with Production team, and building the partnership to understand the complexities of our Supply Chain in order to meet our delivery dates.
• Partner with Merch and Product Development team in ensuring an accurate line sheet of all our products in bulk, and in future buy plans.
• Lead, grow, and evolve the department and team as the business continues to grow.

Requirements:

• BA/BS in Business, Finance, Supply Chain or Merchandising.
• 8+ years of Demand Planning, Inventory Management, &/or Merchandising experience.
• 5+ years of leading a team.
• Highly capable of being independent, problem solving, and making day-to-day decisions for the department.
• High degree of emotional intelligence & communication skills.
• Must be expert in Microsoft Excel.
• Highly motivated, capable of thriving under pressure, and insanely focused on evolving the department and driving change as the business continues to grow.

Buck Mason designs updated, modern American classics for daily wear. Founded in 2013 by Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen, who were neighbors in Venice, California, they initially set up shop in a 350 square foot garage off Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Using old school manufacturing techniques combined with modern technology, they took an architectural approach to the product with the goal of making fashion less complicated, building each piece to last beyond a single season. Much of their product is made in the USA, where you can often find Sasha and Erik on the factory floor.