Hugo Boss Inventory Control Coordinator

About Hugo Boss

Founded in 1924 and headquartered in Metzingen, Germany, HUGO BOSS is a global premium fashion group whose BOSS and HUGO brands offer distinct expressions of contemporary style. With roots in tailoring, its collections span clothing, accessories and fragrances, combining design expertise with international commercial reach. As an employer, the group offers career paths across creative disciplines, product development, retail, digital commerce and corporate functions. Its international operations bring together diverse professional expertise, with opportunities to contribute to brand development and customer experience.

Role & Responsibilities

• Monitor weekly stock movements, including warehouse deliveries, inter-store transfers, end-of-season returns to the warehouse, scrapping, negative on-hand inventory, and faulty stock movements, ensuring company procedures are followed to prevent inventory losses.
• Report and reconcile open POs, RTVs, and discounts weekly, partnering with Warehouse, Retail Operations, Stores, Accounting, IT, and other business teams to manage inventory and prevent merchandise losses.
• Partner with internal and external business contacts on inventory-control investigations to prevent further losses and recover losses.
• Support retail locations daily with inquiries about open shipments, returned merchandise, damage processes, and related matters.
• Identify outliers and issues and communicate them to management.
• Compile concise, actionable reports for the executive management team.
• Travel, including occasional overnight trips, to conduct inventory-control audits at retail locations.
• Work some early mornings, late nights, and weekends.
• Complete other ad hoc tasks and special projects related to loss prevention and inventory control.

Qualifications

• Operationally focused, with the ability to think creatively to streamline existing processes and procedures.
• Minimum of 2–3 years of work experience in the field.
• Experience implementing and curating exception-based reporting.
• Data analysis skills.
• At least intermediate-level Excel proficiency.
• Strong planning, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Detail-oriented, with a high degree of accuracy.
• Familiarity with Retail Operations, Inventory Control, and Loss Prevention.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with business teams.
• Able to manage multiple tasks, adapt to a changing environment, work independently, and prioritize tasks.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.
• SAP experience is desirable.
• Familiarity with Business Intelligence solutions is desirable.
• Knowledge of RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) processes in a retail environment.

Skills

Experience

Minimum of 2–3 years of work experience in the field.

Benefits

Flexible office hours; birthday off; exclusive employee discounts; wellness programs promoting health and well-being; continuous development; life and career plan; compensation package above legal requirements.

Culture

Hugo Boss combines German tailoring heritage with a contemporary, globally minded approach, creating a workplace where precision, creativity and commercial awareness are central. Its teams work across design, retail and digital functions, with an emphasis on collaboration, innovation and delivering a consistent premium brand experience.

About Cerulean

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