Buyer - Athleisure, Swim & Intimates

VICI is the ultimate shopping destination for the modern fashionista. Our assortment covers women's apparel, accessories, footwear, and handbags. We offer an on-trend assortment with capsule-like weekly drops, featured shops, influencer collaborations, and curated daily drops focused on our customers' lives and the styling inspiration they need. Much of our assortment is exclusive and made with our customers' shopping preferences and feedback top of mind.

We buy and design sophisticated, trend right, and modern styles we know our customers will love.

What started as a small family-owned business, has grown since its start in 2012, to a brand with a strong online and social presence. Affordability, quality, and customer service are at the center of our brand and we always strive to ensure our customers are satisfied with their VICI experience. From opening our Nashville retail store to launching pop ups in Newport Beach and Venice Beach, VICI is increasing its retail footprint to bring more awareness to the brand.

We are just getting started and excited about what the future holds!

The Buyer is responsible for developing, executing, and communicating an Assortment Architecture that speak to the Vici customer through relevant trends and exceptional price value. This role is integral to driving sales and profit plan and requires a highly collaborative individual who thrives on agility in a cross-functional role. The buyer is responsible for the creative vision of the company coming to life through impeccable product execution as well as concepting key drops for their categories in collaboration with the Director of Merchandising and Chief Merchandising Officer.

• The Buyer will be responsible for a commercially sound product strategy and assortment plan that will be representative of the VICI Customer tastes and needs:
• Have expert knowledge on the VICI customer and competitor activities; maintains a strong pulse on current trends and the fashion zeitgeist.
• Partners directly with vendor on product development to support a strategic exclusive assortment in conjunction with buying off vendor in-line - this position is product development intensive and requires a keen eye for detail, strong communication skills, agility in managing multiple parallel work streams and ensuring flawless concept to market execution.
• Develop and execute a merchandise assortment plan that supports the financial, merchandising, and marketing objectives for seasonal product concepts, key items, promotional strategies and assortments mix.
• Set product and category level pricing recommendations and strategies to align with financial plans.
• Deliver to OTB goals- sales, inventory, cost, sku and margin objectives.
• Proactive about making vendor appointments to fill gaps in the assortment.
• Drives business recaps, performance and forward-looking action plans:
• Recommend styles for markdowns.
• Analyze and manage in season performance keeping a pulse on customers' needs and emerging trends and read and react to weekly business; utilizes learnings to inform in-season and future season actions, strategies, assortments and chase including but not limited to, reorders, assortment cancels, edits, discounts, swaps and adds which involve vendor negotiations.
• Hindsight performance post-season to identify hits and misses and build future season strategy.
• Partner with Site Merchandising to determine featured categories and products to support sales and inventory initiatives - always scanning for improvements and collaborating on ways to improve customer experience.
• Positively influence cross-functional teams to hit category goals by effectively communicating important ideas at weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings.
• Build and maintain strong vendor relationships:
• Actively source and propose new vendors (if applicable) to executive leadership in order to fill assortment voids and keep product capability innovative and on trend.
• Drive Vendor Negotiations across product quality, purchase quantity, landed cost, and delivery (and RTV’s) while ensuring vendor relationships stays positive.
• Proactive about making vendor appointments to fill gaps in the…