Supply Chain Allocator

Supply Chain Allocator

(32 - 38 hours)

Ready to make a real impact on how our stores are supplied? Join Action’s Supply Planning team and play a key role in keeping our stock moving between our distribution centers and stores as our new Supply Chain Allocator.

This is your daily action

The main purpose of the Supply Chain Allocator is to create, maintain, monitor and guard all stock allocations towards our stores, based upon the commercially planned moments for new articles, promotions and seasonal assortment.

Responsibilities:

• Create and optimize allocation plans for multiple inflow types, using data from Assortment, Promo, and Commercial teams and working with the Symphony Replenishment and Allocation platform.
• Support smooth assortment phase‑in and phase‑out, translating commercial plans into efficient stock flows.
• Manage time‑critical and urgent flows, such as promotions, new articles and seasonal uplifts
• Control planning timelines and deadlines for pushes and inflow across all categories and commercial seasons.
• Collaborate across our Planning and Supply Chain teams to continuously improve processes, ensuring high‑quality execution supported by clear KPIs and milestones.

Meet your team

The allocation team (3) is part of our 60-strong Supply Planning team. With a global scope, a highly dynamic product range and a growing number of distribution centres, stores, hubs and cross-docks, you will face exciting challenges day in, day out. A sense of resilience is needed to deal with these challenges, and that's why we invest heavily in developing innovative tools as well as in everyone who works at Action through extensive training programmes and more. We offer a vibrant work environment that will help you to take the next step. Many colleagues have already led the way and will be happy to guide you through our unique team and our varied work.

This is you

You have a proactive attitude and your strong interpersonal skills allow you to communicate efficiently with stakeholders. You are service-minded and customer oriented, as well as demonstrating a high level of pragmatism. You work towards results and you have a way with numbers, facts and figures that allows you to effectively analyse and solve problems. You execute all activities and projects with pace and urgency yet in an organized and structured way, while sticking to the agreed upon deadlines and guidelines.

Furthermore you have:

• Bachelor degree in preferably a relevant field (Supply Chain / Logistics / Business administration / Retail)

• At least 2 years of relevant working experience, preferably in a supply chain (planning) function, and preferably in a retail environment
• You have strong retail affinity and a commercially driven mindset
• You are very organized and are able to structure activities and projects
• Excellent Excel skills
• Excellent command of English

What we offer

We open stores internationally on weekly basis. This rapid growth makes Action a successful organization and it requires us to continuously adapt. Such expansion brings all kinds of unique challenges as well as opportunities for career growth.

• A market-based salary based on a 32 or 38-hour work week
• 24 days of holiday and the option to buy 5 extra days (based on 38 hours per week)
• The possibility of working up to 40% from home, of course in coordination with your team and manager
• Travel allowance
• 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action
• Work in a fun and international team

How we contribute to society

If you only know Action from the stores, a world will open up for you when you join us. For example, we are working hard behind the scenes to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, for example, that we sponsor more than 2,000 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children’s Village? That our team reflects the diversity of our customers, including 124 nationalities? That we already source 70% of our wood products and 86% of our cotton sustainably? And that only energy-efficient LED lighting is used in more than half of our stores? Yes, that is also Action. Curious about what other initiatives we’re facilitating? Join our team and find out for yourself.

Interested?

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who recognises themselves in the vacancy to apply. So take action and respond to this vacancy now!

What happens next:

1. Response to your application within 14 days (and usually earlier)
2. First meeting with the manager and a colleague
3. Online assessment to get to know you better
4. Second interview with your recruiter, among others
5. Welcome to Action…

Throughout the process, your recruiter is your permanent point of contact and is available to answer any questions you may have.