Buyer

We offer a creative and friendly environment with plenty of opportunity for advancement.

ABOUT FRANCESCA’S®

francesca’s® is a specialty retailer which operates a nationwide chain of boutiques providing customers a unique, fun, and personalized shopping experience. The merchandise assortment is a diverse and balanced mix of apparel, jewelry, accessories, and gifts which targets 18–35-year-olds. francesca’s is continuing to embrace diversity and inclusion with recently adding two new collections: franki and francesca’s Fit which creates a more positive and inclusive experience; we now offer sizes for a 10-year-old up to 3X. Today, francesca’s® operates 460 boutiques in 45 states and serves its customers through francescas.com, and the francesca’s app.

Essential Functions

• Develop seasonal assortment plans to maximize the development of brand, sales and profits for Accessories. Identify opportunities and recommend new products or concepts for department. Coordinate information across departments with Merchandise Planning, Site Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, and Boutique Operations to ensure smooth flow of merchandise to the sales floor and live on the site.

• Develop/decide product assortment, merchandise point of view, shop strategies, key item positioning, and promotional plans, ensuring that the collection is compelling, commercially viable and supports overall business objectives.

• Source vendor base and create exclusive, proprietary products that enhance the brand.

• Ensure timely delivery of the merchandise through consistent communication and follow-up with vendor, distribution center, and merchandise planning.

• In collaboration with Planning, drive seasonal strategies and financial plans; ensure the financial success by meeting or exceeding sales, GM, and inventory goals.

• Gain knowledge of customer and awareness of the competitive landscape to identify emerging trends.

• Act as a role-model within the Department by coaching and teaching team members to work cooperatively and to remain focused

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• This is a home office position, which pursuant to the Company's COVID-19 vaccination mandate, requires all home office employees to be fully vaccinated, unless an employee objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons (including prior recovery from COVID-19). To the extent an accommodation is requested to this mandate, the Company will evaluate each request on an individualized basis in accordance with applicable law.

• 5-7 years of omni buying experience.

• Experience in sourcing vendors, product development, and production.

• Customer centric.

• Possess strong presentation, listening, verbal and written communication skills.

• Defend and effectively sell a point of view.

• Strong financial acumen, analyze a problem skillfully, formulate a logical rationale for the decision and take action.

• Fosters a collaborative environment that promotes high performance standards and attainment of goals.

• Be open-minded to and receptive of others' opinions.

• Possess basic knowledge of international production processes.

• Demonstrate the organizational ability to facilitate multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment.

• Possess computer literacy and facility with Microsoft Office and Excel.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

francesca’s® is an equal opportunity employer

francesca's® understands that it is our team members that contribute to our growth and we invite you to help us continue in our success!