Retail Buyer

US POLO ASSN. RETAIL CATEGORY BUYER

Purpose of the job:

To ensure alignment of range buying to sales trends and launch plan for every season; to achieve the sell-through and budget targets set for the brand / category.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Conducts market visits (own stores and competitors’); analyze performance of various products and forecasts the market trends
• Provide range plan to product & design team on the season’s requirements
• Range buying at roadshow based on Open-to-buy (OTB) quantity and value for a season as well as the product mix determined based on consumer and market analysis.
• Identify gap in OTB (requirement vs trade show buying), if any & discuss with product & design team for development of gap fill range.
• Prepare & share launch plan with product, design, visual merchandising, planning & marketing team
• Weekly follow up with product team for timely inwards & visual merchandising team for launch
• Weekly tracking of store wise stock fill and release allocations accordingly.
• Prepare timely sell-through report to assess performance and to drive corrective action.
• Track core range performance
• Prepare & analyze quarterly & half yearly performance report

Desired Qualification:

NIFT - Master of Fashion Management or equivalent certification

Desired Experience Profile:

6 to 9 years of Men’s Casual Wear (Mid Premium / Premium Brand) Buying & Merchandizing experience preferably in Retail (EBO) Buying for Brands