Buying and Merchandising - Footwear

• Drive and further build the category PAN India

• Season range planning and assortment building with experience in range development with India factories

• Candidate needs to possess skills to lead the product development & buying requirement with Local sourcing team

• Understand the dynamics of each business – Retail, MBO, Distribution & Ecom to strengthen the business

• Support in new Product development for key channels / partners

• Sell through & Mark down management

• Agreed GM% deliverables for the category

• Conducting season product conference / partner presentations

• Planning for End of season sale along with Buying Manager

• Ownership of managing season deliveries for the respective category

• Creating season buy forms / assortment building & catalogues for each channel

• Perform periodic in depth analysis w.r.t store performance at region & store grade, category level, gender level, style & size level

• Supporting Marketing calendar and key marketing initiatives for season

• Conducting Product training and building product knowledge within store staff