Commercial Planning & Control Lead (Fashion Retail)

About the role

As Commercial Planning & Control Lead, you will manage and maintain discipline over Open-to-Buy (OTB), monitor inventory metrics, and analyse SKU performance to ensure healthy margins (≥60%), controlled inventory, reduced return rates, and stable cashflow during growth. This is a governance function, not operational administration.

Key responsibilities

• Calculate and update Open-to-Buy (OTB) monthly

• Monitor inventory turn and aging bucket (30/60/90 days)

• Analyse sell-through per SKU

• Identify slow-moving SKUs and recommend discontinuation

• Simulate impact of promotions on margin

• Ensure production does not exceed OTB limits

• Monitor inventory aging and inventory turn

• Analyse SKU performance (sell-through and margin)

• Control production commitments to align with capacity and cash

• Prepare weekly S&OP reports for CEO

About you

• 5–10 years of experience in retail, fashion, or category planning

• Understanding of sell-through, stock-to-sales ratio, and inventory turn concepts

• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables and scenario modelling required)

• Experience managing multi-item SKU portfolios

• Comfortable working with data and numbers

• Able to communicate analysis to management

• Fashion retail background (valued)

• Marketplace experience (Shopee/TikTok) (valued)

• Previous involvement in OTB or merchandise planning (valued)

About us

Alcavella is a premium modest fashion brand in scale-up phase.