Sr. Specialist Retail Trading

The Senior Specialist Trader supports in-season trading and allocation execution across Retail and Franchise channels, ensuring stock health, sell-through and margin optimisation. The role focuses on data analysis, inventory flow coordination and in-season responsiveness, translating commercial plans into actionable outcomes to deliver an exceptional consumer experience. It sits within the Merchandising & Planning team and works closely with Buying, Planning, Omnichannel, Supply Chain, the Distribution Centre team, Retail Operations and Finance, as well as external Retail and Franchise partners.

• Implement store allocation and replenishment strategies provided by the Manager Trader to ensure the right product, size and quantity reach each store on time, maintaining stock-to-sales ratio by store and by channel.
• Monitor daily and weekly sell-out performance, tracking store-level sales and stock data to identify overstock or stock-out risks and recommend immediate corrective actions to optimise store performance.
• Execute approved markdown and price adjustments across channels, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy, system accuracy and on-time execution.
• Support Distribution Centre-to-store, store-to-store and ship-from-store transfers to optimise stock levels and ensure product availability during key trading periods.
• Maintain and update trading performance dashboards, consolidating sales, inventory and margin data into weekly trading reports that provide accurate, actionable insights for the Manager Trader.
• Analyse product and size performance to identify top and slow movers, sharing insights that support in-season actions such as reallocation, transfers or markdowns.
• Prepare performance summaries, presentation materials and analysis to support cross-functional in-season trading meetings and follow-ups.
• Assist in compiling post-season reviews by providing quantitative and qualitative insights to improve future buy and allocation strategies.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Merchandising or Supply Chain.
• 2 years of experience in Retail Trading or Planning.
• Proven experience in data analysis, stock management or allocation in a retail environment.
• Proficiency in Excel and business intelligence tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
• Advanced English and Spanish verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to interpret sales and inventory data.
• Commercial mindset with a focus on accuracy, speed and execution quality.
• Detail-oriented and highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Experience in sporting goods, fashion or consumer goods is preferred.

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