Assoc Buyer Arnold Rd 2nd Floor, Dublin, CA Office - Merchandising

Responsibilities

• Identifies marketing and merchandising trends and ideas, and translates appropriately into realistic merchandise programs
• Ensures overall product assortment meets financial plan targets and addresses consumer needs
• Owns oversight of buying for one category end-to-end
• Develops conceptual assortment/ buy plans to capture assortment needs to feed line planning and product development
• Provides direction and input to product development to ensure that specific product attribute requirements are met and supported
• Develops merchandising strategy including pricing, promotional pricing and cadence, markdown plans and timing
• Manages business to meet company targets on gross margin, sales, sell through, markdowns, inventory levels, and turn
• Directs merchandise projections and flow schedules to ensure timely and constant flow of merchandise
• Manages creation of POs and correct item/3rd party set-up and attributes
• Monitors in-season performance against plan and directs action for improvement as necessary
• Utilizes end of season analysis provided by planners to modify seasonal strategic, merchandise and assortment plans going forward

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, other related field
• 5+ years' merchandising experience.
• Experience in buying Men's Apparel preferred
• Sound analytical, financial, strategic and problem-solving skills
• Superior communication and organization skills
• High level of initiative and ability to execute independently with minimal direction
• Ability to work within a collaborative and dynamic team environment with diverse groups of people
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Domestic travel required
• Ability to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time
• Ability to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily