Category Buyer; Retail-Sports

Job Description

Designation:
Fashion Buyer

Exp: 5-7 years

Salary:
Open

Gender: Open

Nationality:
Open

• Must be from Fashion background.
• Prefer to have candidates from same luxury fashion industry.
• Salary is open can be negotiated and offered to the right candidates.

• Carry out buying activities in-line with the brand buying plans.
• Maintain profitable relationships with existing suppliers and monitor the adherence to the contract terms.
• Drive the seasonal strategies in line with the brand positioning to formulate Gross Margin Plan.
• Develop a fine tuned assortment and investment plan.
• Create the sourcing development plan and action the critical path to deliver timely.
• Negotiate with new suppliers on product pricing, payment terms, cost of freight, provision of training, and the extent of their involvement in advertising and promotions, to decide on placing a purchase order with the supplier for the concerned product.
• OTB Planning.
• Manage OTB in tandem with the planning counterpart.
• Deliver the seasonal business strategy by monitoring and impacting the critical path, range building and product selection.
• Prepare and manage the buying calendar.
• Formulate seasonal product focus plan with Marketing and VM to drive key product initiatives.
• Focus on holding current business and build new categories.
• Conducting customer focus groups and competitive shopping Performance and Operations.
• Analysis and reporting of weekly sales performance at style, range, category and business unit level against range plan. Take in season action to revise production flows and maximize sales.
• Manage TNA plans.
• Implement the buying calendar for timely seasonal analysis and range build.
• Perform regular competitor surveys to identify product gaps, influence lessons learnt and range plans.
• Manage range and product hierarchy and create the seasonal phasing plan.
• Responsible for the ‘The Look’ for the season. Influence product selection, in-store VM as per guidelines and layout planning.
• Keep abreast of market trends and awareness of competitor activities.
• Manage the product training of staff to ensure up-to-date knowledge. Prepare regular trends training and deliver to the business units.
• Review buying feedback reports and provide recommendations to General Manager as to buying strategy for a respective brand/collection.