INVENTORY MERCHANDISER & ALLOCATION PLANNER

We are hiring an experienced Inventory Merchandiser & Allocation Planner to take ownership of our recurring inventory merchandising process, with a simple mission: the right stock in the right location, in the right quantity, at the right time.

Glassworks already operates a substantial proprietary inventory model covering stock by location, sales, purchasing history, reorder logic and transfer recommendations. Your immediate priority will be to learn and operate that model safely, QA its outputs and apply strong commercial merchandising judgement where recommendations are incomplete or incorrect.

You will own the weekly allocation, replenishment, transfer, capacity and reorder process, provide assortment and intake signals to Product / Buying, ensure agreed stock actions are followed through, and identify opportunities to improve stock availability, inventory productivity and sell-through.

Reporting directly to the Founder / CEO, you will work closely with Product / Buying, Retail, Ecommerce, Warehouse, the Head of Business Operations and Business Systems & Technology Operations. Over time, you will help strengthen the decision logic behind Glassworks' proprietary merchandising systems, while Business Systems & Technology Operations owns their technical development.

This role requires strong hands-on inventory merchandising experience. You should be able to demonstrate:

assortment, option or range planning, including translating category performance and capacity into intake recommendations;

store capacity planning;

multi-store stock allocation;

replenishment ownership;

inter-store stock balancing;

sell-through, stock-cover and stock-turn analysis;

size / SKU-level availability management;

experience turning analysis into specific commercial stock actions;

experience across both physical retail and ecommerce;

overstock, understock and ageing management;

making sound merchandising decisions where data is incomplete or conflicting.

You must also be highly confident working directly in large, formula-driven Excel models, including:

navigating complex workbooks;

tracing and understanding formulas;

distinguishing raw inputs, calculated fields and manual overrides;

using lookups, pivots, filters and conditional logic;

troubleshooting formula or output issues;

safely maintaining existing models without breaking downstream logic.

The requirement is not to arrive and replace the existing model. You must be comfortable using, understanding, interrogating and safely improving an established operating model.

Fashion or apparel experience is strongly preferred. Candidates from closely comparable multi-store specialty retail may also be considered where their allocation, replenishment, capacity, SKU-level and omnichannel experience is unusually strong.

A successful hire should create measurable improvement in:

stock availability;

capture of best sellers;

replenishment speed;

core-size availability;

stock turn;

aged-stock reduction;

store capacity productivity;

balance of stock between locations;

reorder and buying signals;

quality and speed of stock-action execution;

follow-through on approved stock movements;

reliability of inventory-model outputs and exception handling;

and the consistency of inventory decisions across the business.

Over time, routine allocation, replenishment, transfer and reorder decisions should become substantially less dependent on Founder involvement.