Buyer - Handbags​/Lifestyle Bags

As Buyer you will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet sub-category goals. You will be accountable for leading a merchandising team and cross-functional sub-category team for end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary Brands. As a key partner to Design, you will own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.

Incorporate customer insights, competition and category trends to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy and respond to in-season business trends

Serve as the customer and competitive expert for product, brand and category

Communicate overarching omni-merchandising vision to category cross-functional teams

Lead localization product strategy

Curate consumer, trend and climate-appropriate product assortments

Operate as a key Design partner to create customer, business and brand-relevant product offerings

Visit relevant markets and regions to gather product and consumer information, ideate future product strategies and establish business relationships

Partner with Marketing team to develop sub-category marketing strategies, identify key merchandise stories, plan the timing of marketing campaigns and align on brand-consumer insights

Partner with omnichannel experience teams to ensure product stories come to life in-store and digitally

Lead and develop your team, identifying and building best-in-class talent

Drive overall team engagement

Meet KPIs including Sales performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance, Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management

Support and execute the team vision, set clear objectives, assign and direct work, manage performance, and maintain open communications to create an effective work environment

Additional tasks may be assigned

Exceptional product acumen and balanced ability to lead product creation and select relevant product

Catalyst of change with a growth mindset

Strong sense of curiosity, agility, urgency and resiliency

Outstanding communication and presentation skills

Strong collaboration and influence skills to build long-term strategic partnerships

Passion and eye for product and customer obsession

Ability to develop top talent and highly engaged teams