About the role
Join Our Family of Brands – Northern Reflections, Ricki’s & Cleo
At Northern Reflections, Ricki’s, and Cleo, we are united by a shared vision: to inspire and empower women through fashion that fits their lives. With a proud legacy in Canadian retail, we bring together decades of expertise, a passionate team, and a commitment to delivering exceptional style, quality, and service.
As part of our growing organization, you’ll join a collaborative and dynamic team that values innovation, customer connection, and the power of great fashion. Whether it’s timeless comfort, polished workwear, or versatile style, each of our brands plays a unique role in serving women across generations.
Reporting to Manager, Allocations, the Allocation Analyst for Cleo and Ricki’s will plan and allocate product to maximize each store sales potential and inventory productivity to achieve company goals. They will ensure timely flow of merchandise from the Distribution Centre to stores to support the assortment strategy and in-store marketing events. The Allocation Analyst will support the Allocation Manager is execution of tasks and team development/questions. They will collaborate regularly with Operations, Planning, Merchandising, and other cross functional teams for both brands.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures optimal allocation of goods to stores by analyzing sales history and future sales potential and verifying pre-planned assortments.
- Support in creating, managing, executing and analyzing inventory plans at the product/class/item level to maximize business opportunities.
- Ensures timely and optimal replenishment of merchandise to stores from the warehouse.
- Distribute merchandise based on analysis of trends, evaluation of store performance and customer profiles.
- Analyze trends and performance and allocate inventory by store, in-season inventory management, store profiles, and promotional activity.
- Learning to access assortment performance and adjust to maximize trend and minimize risk.
- Expedites the preplanning of future receipts by building and/or allocating suggested distributions, as needed.
- Analyzes store inventory weeks-of-supply relative to chain-wide averages to identify and correct stores with excessive stock positions or high inventory needs
- Facilitates decision-making by planners by collecting and preparing data for size analysis, preparing seasonal grids with immediate supervisor, providing SUP details for order writing, and proactively identifying future sales opportunities.
- Provide in depth analysis and feedback on allocations to accommodate the changes in trend and the mix of the store assortment in collaboration with planning, buying and stores.
- Communicates regularly with the Allocations Manager to facilitate informed decision making.
- Facilitates decision-making by planners/buyers by preparing special reports and analysis, as requested.
- Support Allocation Manager in merchandise allocation efforts to ensure the execution of the appropriate inventory levels by location in order to enable stores to achieve their sales, turn, and margin goals.
- Support in creating, managing, executing and analyzing inventory plans at the product/class/item level to maximize business opportunities.
Qualifications
- Post-secondary degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- 2+ years of experience in allocation and/or analytical experience in a retail organization
- 2+ years of experience in allocation and/or merchandising support
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and customer service skills
- Detail oriented with strong mathematical and organizational skills
- Excellent written and communication skills
About Cleo
Cleo. Where AI meets money.
Cleo launched in 2016 by people who have been burned by banks. Fed up with the broken system, we decided it was time to make a change.
Since then, the cost of living has skyrocketed, the rich have continued getting richer, and our vision has only become clearer.
Our mission? To change the world's relationship with money.
Cleo is a platform for the 99% – an AI assistant defining a new category, one that goes beyond saving and budgets to actually changing how we feel about our finances.
Using simplicity and humor, she’s helped millions of people improve their relationship with money, because we believe that everyone has the potential to achieve financial well-being in just one generation.
Through a personalized chat, she provides you with deep insight about your money and tailored financial tools that increase your ability to save, all while making you laugh.
We’re a product for the next generation. That means that we are committed to inclusive and unbiased financial growth for all. It also means dropping the BS.
In the past year or so we’ve grown the Cleo team from 100 to 250+, and closed a $80m Series C led by Sofina (that’s a $500M valuation).
Want to get involved?
You know that awful feeling when you wake up wondering if what you’re about to do for the next 8 hours actually matters? That doesn’t happen here much.
Everything we do is grounded in purpose. And because we’re all showing up for the same reason, collaboration comes easy.
We have a culture of stepping up. We want, and expect you to grow and develop. You’ll have our support in everything you do. But more importantly, you’ll have our trust.
We treat our people as humans first, employees second, which means giving everyone a voice. All perspectives are embraced here.
About the role
Join Our Family of Brands – Northern Reflections, Ricki’s & Cleo
At Northern Reflections, Ricki’s, and Cleo, we are united by a shared vision: to inspire and empower women through fashion that fits their lives. With a proud legacy in Canadian retail, we bring together decades of expertise, a passionate team, and a commitment to delivering exceptional style, quality, and service.
As part of our growing organization, you’ll join a collaborative and dynamic team that values innovation, customer connection, and the power of great fashion. Whether it’s timeless comfort, polished workwear, or versatile style, each of our brands plays a unique role in serving women across generations.
Reporting to Manager, Allocations, the Allocation Analyst for Cleo and Ricki’s will plan and allocate product to maximize each store sales potential and inventory productivity to achieve company goals. They will ensure timely flow of merchandise from the Distribution Centre to stores to support the assortment strategy and in-store marketing events. The Allocation Analyst will support the Allocation Manager is execution of tasks and team development/questions. They will collaborate regularly with Operations, Planning, Merchandising, and other cross functional teams for both brands.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures optimal allocation of goods to stores by analyzing sales history and future sales potential and verifying pre-planned assortments.
- Support in creating, managing, executing and analyzing inventory plans at the product/class/item level to maximize business opportunities.
- Ensures timely and optimal replenishment of merchandise to stores from the warehouse.
- Distribute merchandise based on analysis of trends, evaluation of store performance and customer profiles.
- Analyze trends and performance and allocate inventory by store, in-season inventory management, store profiles, and promotional activity.
- Learning to access assortment performance and adjust to maximize trend and minimize risk.
- Expedites the preplanning of future receipts by building and/or allocating suggested distributions, as needed.
- Analyzes store inventory weeks-of-supply relative to chain-wide averages to identify and correct stores with excessive stock positions or high inventory needs
- Facilitates decision-making by planners by collecting and preparing data for size analysis, preparing seasonal grids with immediate supervisor, providing SUP details for order writing, and proactively identifying future sales opportunities.
- Provide in depth analysis and feedback on allocations to accommodate the changes in trend and the mix of the store assortment in collaboration with planning, buying and stores.
- Communicates regularly with the Allocations Manager to facilitate informed decision making.
- Facilitates decision-making by planners/buyers by preparing special reports and analysis, as requested.
- Support Allocation Manager in merchandise allocation efforts to ensure the execution of the appropriate inventory levels by location in order to enable stores to achieve their sales, turn, and margin goals.
- Support in creating, managing, executing and analyzing inventory plans at the product/class/item level to maximize business opportunities.
Qualifications
- Post-secondary degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- 2+ years of experience in allocation and/or analytical experience in a retail organization
- 2+ years of experience in allocation and/or merchandising support
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and customer service skills
- Detail oriented with strong mathematical and organizational skills
- Excellent written and communication skills
About Cleo
Cleo. Where AI meets money.
Cleo launched in 2016 by people who have been burned by banks. Fed up with the broken system, we decided it was time to make a change.
Since then, the cost of living has skyrocketed, the rich have continued getting richer, and our vision has only become clearer.
Our mission? To change the world's relationship with money.
Cleo is a platform for the 99% – an AI assistant defining a new category, one that goes beyond saving and budgets to actually changing how we feel about our finances.
Using simplicity and humor, she’s helped millions of people improve their relationship with money, because we believe that everyone has the potential to achieve financial well-being in just one generation.
Through a personalized chat, she provides you with deep insight about your money and tailored financial tools that increase your ability to save, all while making you laugh.
We’re a product for the next generation. That means that we are committed to inclusive and unbiased financial growth for all. It also means dropping the BS.
In the past year or so we’ve grown the Cleo team from 100 to 250+, and closed a $80m Series C led by Sofina (that’s a $500M valuation).
Want to get involved?
You know that awful feeling when you wake up wondering if what you’re about to do for the next 8 hours actually matters? That doesn’t happen here much.
Everything we do is grounded in purpose. And because we’re all showing up for the same reason, collaboration comes easy.
We have a culture of stepping up. We want, and expect you to grow and develop. You’ll have our support in everything you do. But more importantly, you’ll have our trust.
We treat our people as humans first, employees second, which means giving everyone a voice. All perspectives are embraced here.