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STELLA MCCARTNEY is Hiring a Buyer Near New York, NY
Location: New York
Reports to: President, US
Role OutlineThe Buyer will collaborate with the central retail team and lead buying strategies for the US market. The Buyer is relied upon to have and retain strong market knowledge of the various locations in which we operate to help lead buying choices and partner with the store teams to drive their businesses to success. The Buyer leads all buying processes across all categories, tailoring the buy for our various markets and seeking opportunities to maximise retail sales.
Key ResponsibilitiesRetail Buy
- Partners retail stores to ensure the businesses have efficient buys and stock levels in place to maximise sales potential
- Plan’s and develops the Buying strategy, ensuring that commercial trends are followed using product selection and a clear brand image is translated through the selected range
- Develop a strong product portfolio in order to maintain a competitive edge and satisfy market demands
- Leads the retail buy for all seasons across all categories and tailors for each market
- Identifies opportunities to maximise sales
- Effectively manage the buying process with stores
- Responsibility for the open-to-buy budget and regularly presenting result to the Senior Management
- Forecasts and builds plans to project sales potentials, respecting communicated deadlines
- Monitors delivery of stock shipments to ensure product arrives to maximise sales potential
- Delivers seasonal buying reporting
- Presents product selection to management
- Carries out in store product training for store teams
- Creates product knowledge information packs
- Conducts continual buying feedback with managers and sales teams
- Collaborates with Merchandising on product concerns and opportunities, such as sizing or colour palettes, variations to range
- Analyse and report on product and collection results based on store sales and local trends
- Monitors sales results and makes sound recommendations based on analytics
- Implement and run reporting and analysis procedures to closely monitor daily, weekly and monthly sales worldwide
- Reviewing sales on a continual basis and driving key business decisions
- Identifies best sellers, slow sellers, bestselling sizes and ensures effective stock replenishment
- Monitors sales and stock levels, taking necessary action
- Places purchases and re-orders strategically, aligning fashion trends to customer buying behaviour
- Identifies opportunities to reduce overall costs and for improvement within the supply chain
- Collaborates with VM, Marketing, PR, E-Commerce and Merchandising maximise sales potentials
- Maintains up to date knowledge of competitors strategies
- Communicates mark down information and time lines
- Builds knowledge of the Stella McCartney client and understands client buying behaviour to select range suited to local clientele
- Identifies opportunities to maximise sales by analysing client buying behaviours to ensure we are providing a desirable product selection
- Strong communication skills and able to build relationships
- Significant buying experience in Women’s RTW
- Able to report and analyse data to lead strategies
- Able to follow business performance and follow market trends
- Knowledgeable on markets, competitors and trends.
- Passionate about the fashion industry and completely fashion and trend aware
- Microsoft Office (particularly excel)
- Sales and stock transfer systems (e.g. JDA, RetailPro)
- Salary-75k-100k depending on experience
RewardOur philosophy is to go beyond monetary return and consider ourselves responsible for your wellbeing, your family, your health, your time and the community.
- Employee discount
- Exclusive staff sales and sample sales
- Flexible working/core hours
- Maternity/paternity enhanced
- Fitness membership (Classpass) and onsite yoga
- Volunteer and Birthday leave
- Employee referral bonus
- Financial Wellbeing Support Services
At Stella McCartney, we like to be bold. For us this means challenging ourselves and the wider industry in which we operate. As part of our commitments to inclusive fashion, we have an ambitious strategy to put diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of everything we do. Our starting point is to create a workplace where different voices are respected, heard and empowered in equal measure regardless of factors such as culture and backgrounds, and to influence and disrupt fashion and other industries by providing opportunities for global diverse talent to shine.#MD1
Job Summary
Full Time
$69k-86k (estimate)
04/20/2023
06/28/2024
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