Fast Grown Retail Store seeks a new District Controller for their North East Regional Stores. This position will be responsible for staff planning, cost allocations, sales planning and forecasting, cost planning and forecasting, and staff development.
Staff Planning:
1 - Creation and follow-up of function plans and master schedules for all shops within the district.
2 - Creation and follow-up of function plans and master schedules (staff planning tools) for all shops within the district.
3 - Work with the store management teams and district managers to ensure that staff plans operate in accordance to the business need, based on sales peaks, customer demands, garment replenishment, and the general store functions necessary for efficient operation.
4 - Responsible for setting and monitoring the ideal staff levels and availabilities of store teams to ensure efficiency and compliance to ideal store plans.
5 - Communicate and partner with HR and Management teams to achieve ideal staff levels and recruitment goals.
Allocations:
1- Responsible for flow of garments from warehouse to shops ensuring the correct balance of stock levels to sales.
2 - Create and update delivery schedule with regional and logistics controllers.
3 - Analyze and take action on over and under stock store, concept and department situations utilizing specific tools and programs.
Sales Planning, Forecasting, and Follow-up:
1 - Create annual sales budgets and quarterly sales plans for all shops within district utilizing historical data, known events and benchmarking. Sales budgets and plans are created with the partnership of store management teams and district managers.
2 - Monitor, analyze, and benchmark weekly / daily sales plans and results from shops.
3 - Create mid-year and fourth quarter sales forecasts.
4 - Weekly and monthly concept performance analysis and benchmarking. Regular communication of these findings / conclusions with district and store teams.
5 - Communicate sales plans and results to district and regional teams.
Cost Planning, Forecasting, and Follow-up:
1 - Challenge and promote cost consciousness and effectiveness within district(s).
2 - Create annual worked hour, salary, and variable cost budgets and quarterly hour plans for all shops within district utilizing historical data, known events and benchmarking. Worked hour budgets and plans are created with the partnership of the store management team.
3 - Monitor, analyze, and benchmark weekly / daily hour plans and results from shops.
4 - Create mid-year and fourth quarter worked hour, salary and variable cost forecasts.
5 - Perform monthly follow-up of all variable costs.
6 - Liaison with Accounting Department with follow-up of costs in district and invoice flow.
7 - Analyze and control cost per hour situation in district.
8 - Create business cases for district initiatives, with sales, cost and profit analysis.
This position is an exempt high growth position which reports to the District Manager and Regional Controller. Some travel is also involved. Due to the high growth nature of the position, employee should be willing to relocate if necessary. Qualified candidate will have a Bachelors degree and at least 2+ years in a retail environment in either Merchandise Management, Store Planning or some other finance function. Qualified candidate will also be tech savvy and well versed in excel and other industry specific software's. For immediate consideration and to set up an interview, email your resume as a MS Word attachment to or call Neil Meyer at (212) 983-1800.
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Friday, September 05, 2008