SNIPES Women’s Footwear Buyer

Bensalem, PA

Hybrid

We live sneakers, streetwear, and neighborhood culture! All Day! Every Day!

With more than 750 stores in Europe and the USA, SNIPES is one of the leading sneaker and streetwear retailers worldwide. Since opening its first store in Essen, Germany in 1998, SNIPES has been an integral part of street culture and is constantly growing thanks to its proximity to the community and regular openings worldwide.

At SNIPES, everything revolves around youth culture. In stores and online at snipes.com and snipesusa.com, our community finds a wide range of internationally renowned sneakers and apparel brands for the latest fits from head to toe. We dive deep into subcultures, sponsor some of the biggest hip-hop festivals, events, and sports teams throughout the world to stay close to our community and keep our deep roots in the global street culture community. Therefore, we work closely with key figures from the scene like DJ Khaled, our Chief Creative Officer. But whether it’s sponsorships or developing grassroots projects – we prioritize giving back to the community in everything we do.

SNIPES has always kept an ear to the streets to create a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. Through our community program “SNIPES serves” and its localized approach we support the needs of our communities, empower, and celebrate our dynamic culture.

OVERVIEW: As a Women’s Footwear Buyer, you are responsible for the merchandise strategy and product assortments that enable the achievement of financial plans. This position reports to the Divisional Merchandise Manager.

Responsibilities

• Regularly review purchase order reports, styles sold reports, vendor reports, and open to buy plans. Write purchase orders and forecast sales levels.
• Strategize current business trends, market, etc., to forecast future sales by family of business.
• Manage plan vs. actual sales plans with finance and inventory levels with planner and allocator.
• Make adjustments to future purchase orders, top sellers and evaluate markdowns.
• Run styles sold reports to review top sellers and slow sellers with vendors.

Key Partners

• Divisional Merchandise Manager
• Chief Merchandise Officer
• Planning & Allocations
• Distribution Center
• Marketing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
• 5 years’ experience of progressive success managing merchandise for a specialty retailer
• Product development experience
• Footwear experience preferred

Skills

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent retail math skills
• Intermediate - Strong Excel skills
• Brand understanding
• Excellent communications skills
• Problem resolution skills

Cultural Success Factors

• Enthusiasm for the brand
• Consumer Obsessed
• Innovative Mindset
• Collaborative nature
• Skillful communicator
• Adaptable and Flexible
• Disciplined and self-motivated

Benefits with SNIPES

• Generous Employee Discount
• Paid Holidays
• Summer Hours
• Hybrid work schedule
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Bonus Plan
• Affordable Health Insurance
• Retirement Contributions

Snipes USA and all its subsidiary Companies are equal opportunity employers. We will not discriminate or make hiring decisions based on race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or any other criteria that would violate any Federal or State laws