Assistant Manager - Menswear Buying & Merchandisin

Location: Bengaluru

Position: Assistant Manager Buying and Merchandising

Reporting Manager: Deputy Manager - Buying and Merchandising

Role Summary:

Drive sales and optimize service demand for the brand by ensuring the availability of the right

product mix in the respective sales channels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand and share the available market opportunity for new and existing categories,

markets and brands.

• Understand the Online trends prevailing in the international market and provide inputs

for customizing the same to suit the needs of the domestic market.

• Drive the sales, margin, and inventory for the category
• Initiate buying as per OTB and ensure timely delivery and availability of right stocks for

respective sales channels

• Address and resolve operational issues within the defined timelines
• Understand and share the customer needs and feedback

Product Strategy & Planning:

• Initiate qualitative option plan with design team at category & attribute level , as per

OTB

• Competition mapping to set correct cost targets to sourcing
• Monthly market studies to analyze category trends & ASP benchmarking
• Tracking photoshoot samples & ensuring the cataloging is done as per brand guidelines
• Utilization of OK stock and trend based print plans
• Keeping a close eye on monthly category inwards and planning necessary style

promotions with marketing and respective updates to the Bewakoof on Marketplace

(BOM) team.

Product Performance and Profitability:

• Drive the sales, sell-thru, margin and inventory for the category.
• Manage timely delivery and availability of right stocks as per the plan.
• Enabling options to go live on the portal.
• Monitor the ageing of stock with reference to the total stock available as per defined

norms.

• Track weekly, Monthly & quarterly sell-thru analysis and share learnings with design.

And required actions for bestsellers and slow movers.

• Perform gap analysis post launch for new products and take required actions.
• Analyze returns and take corrective actions, communicating with respective