About the role
Stüssy is seeking a Global Deployment Manager to lead allocation and inventory deployment across owned retail, managed partner locations, and global e-commerce. This senior role sets deployment direction, develops a global team, and partners across Planning, Merchandising, Retail, E-commerce, and Supply Chain to protect availability and improve inventory productivity.
The role will play a major part in rolling out RELEX by translating Planning needs into scalable processes, supporting data readiness and testing, and preparing the global team to adopt new ways of working. Prior RELEX experience is a plus, but not required.
This is a senior role within the Planning organization, reporting to the Director of Demand & Deployment. The manager is expected to set direction for global deployment, lead through others, develop scalable operating practices, and represent Allocation in key planning and technology decisions. The role combines strategic ownership with hands-on involvement in deployment reviews and the RELEX transformation.
What you'll lead:
- Global deployment: Set allocation and replenishment strategies across owned retail, managed partners, and global e-commerce by region, location, product, and lifecycle stage, balancing availability with inventory productivity.
- In-season execution: Lead allocation reviews, replenishment, rebalancing, launches, and exception management; act on sales trends, stock-outs, inventory imbalances, and supply risks.
- Global team leadership: Lead and develop four direct reports, including colleagues in EMEA and APAC. Set clear ownership and operating rhythms, coach across time zones, and build consistent decision standards.
- RELEX and cross-functional change: Represent Planning in the RELEX rollout by defining requirements, shaping processes, testing and validating outputs, and driving adoption with Demand Planning, Merchandising, Retail, E-commerce, and Supply Chain.
Core responsibilities:
- Translate sales plans, demand signals, inventory targets, and product priorities into location- and channel-level deployment plans; own allocation guardrails, replenishment parameters, clustering inputs, and exception workflows.
- Monitor availability, sell-through, weeks of supply, receipts, in-transit inventory, and open orders; use launch and seasonal reviews to surface risks, rebalance inventory, and improve results.
How success is measured:
The Global Deployment Manager is accountable for measurable improvement in customer availability and inventory productivity, using a balanced set of service, sales, and inventory health indicators.
- Customer availability: In-stock rate; size and style availability; e-commerce availability; stock-out rate and duration; launch readiness.
- Inventory productivity: Inventory turns; weeks of supply; sell-through; aged and excess inventory; markdown or end-of-life exposure.
- Deployment effectiveness: Allocation accuracy and effectiveness; time to floor or site; replenishment response time; transfer and rebalancing productivity.
- Plan and execution health: Allocation to plan; inventory balance by channel and region; receipt and in-transit visibility; exception resolution timeliness.
- Business outcomes: Sales supported by availability; lost-sales reduction; channel service performance; inventory productivity against agreed targets.
Qualifications
- Experience: 5–7 years of progressive allocation experience in apparel retail, including ownership of allocation or deployment decisions across a meaningful store and/or digital business.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop teams; experience working across regions and time zones is important for this global team.
- Allocation expertise: Strong command of retail allocation, replenishment, inventory flow, size and location level performance, and in-season trading. Able to balance service, sales opportunity, and inventory risk.
- Analytical judgment: Comfortable using data to diagnose performance, set priorities, make timely decisions, and explain trade-offs clearly to senior and cross-functional partners.
- Systems and change: Experience with planning, allocation, or inventory systems and a track record of improving processes. RELEX knowledge is a plus, not a requirement; curiosity and readiness to lead system adoption are essential.
- Communication: Clear, concise communicator who can build trust, create accountability, and influence partners across Planning, Merchandising, Retail, E-commerce, and Supply Chain.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.