Allocation & Inventory Manager APAC (7 Month Contract)

Job Description

Just imagine being part of the most loved brand worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate your planning and analytical skills!

The Retail Inventory Planning Manager ensures inventory policies, capacity constraints, inventory flow, and replenishment priorities are optimised to deliver strong customer availability, service targets, and inventory productivity, that our customers have come to expect of the LEGO Group.\

The duration of this contract is to cover parental leave. No relocation assistance is offered for this position. Coverage of benefits for Contractual positions may change or vary.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead inventory and replenishment policies across .com distribution centres, including targets, segmentation, prioritisation, and constraints.
• Represent the local region in monthly inventory flow planning, including governance of Weeks of Supply (WOS) targets and capacity assumptions.
• Define and oversee allocation, netting logic, replenishment frequency, and fulfilment prioritisation across .com DCs.
• Assume responsibility for the inventory submission process in o9, including WOS uploads, assumptions, scenario framing, and alignment with Retail Planning.
• Manage capacity, storage constraints, and operational limitations within planning processes.
• Oversee daily plan execution and exception management
• Identify inventory and fulfilment risks and opportunities, driving corrective actions to improve service, availability, and inventory health.
• Monitor fulfilment KPIs including service level, backlog, inventory health, and availability performance.
• Partner with Retail Planning, Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehouse Operations, IT, Category Management, Marketing, and Promotions to ensure execution alignment and inventory-led commercial planning.

Do you have what it takes?

• 8+ years’ experience in retail, eCommerce, Distribution Centre (DC), or omnichannel allocation and replenishment at a senior level.
• Strong expertise in inventory management, replenishment planning, fulfilment operations, and capacity / constraint-based planning.
• Experience using automated planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, SAP, or Anaplan.
• Solutions focused mindset, with an ability to work through complexity, resolve cross-functional trade-offs, and make high-impact decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Trusted stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills across commercial, supply chain, and operational teams.
• Experience with Weeks of Supply targets, allocation logic or fulfilment prioritisation.
• Background supporting promotional, seasonal or end-of-season inventory planning.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

Our primary role is to provide outstanding allocation and logistics services to internal customers within our organization. The Allocation and Inventory department is responsible for managing the flow of goods for our business. Therefore, ensuring excellent customer service and a comprehensive understanding of the entire LEGO Retail business is crucial for our success. We are committed to delivering results in a timely, accurate, and professional manner.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.