BUYING MANAGER-Underwear

LCWaikiki

•Demonstrable experience as Senior Buyer or Buying Manager for accessories/underwear
•Shows potential ability to manage large team
•Educated to degree level
•Fluent in English
•Demonstrable knowledge of trend and color forecasting
•Understands how to learn customer expectations
•Range building expertise
•Understands sourcing principles

İŞ TANIMI

Guiding the Buying and Design teams in their understanding and classification of target customer groups
•Supervising production of trend, line, color and silhouette boards in line with customers expectations and lessons learned
•Analyzing results of store, supplier, competitor, fairs, and shopping visits; uses results to guide teams
•Monitors strategic plans of buyers so they are appropriate according to the vision, master strategy, customer expectations and forecast trends
•Identifies and agrees growth targets and action plans for product groups, taking into account trends, strengths and weaknesses
•Checks and approves appropriate sourcing budgets and strategies
•Conducts effective trading meetings including best and worst seller analysis, makes incisive decisions on OTB, repeats, returns, discounts and allocation decisions
•Conducts decisive and well organized option planning meetings which result in clear lessons learned, and decisive action
•Keeps selling prices in line with the appropriate price architecture according to customer expectations
•Conducts well organized sign-off meetings which cover all the parameters of design, price, quantity, etc in line with customer needs and the strategic plan
•Takes a commercial view when approving advertisements, catalogues, windows etc to make sure they are appropriate to current business needs
•Evaluates production and quality issues, making sound commercial decisions without damaging the brand
•Attends and contributes at fit meetings when necessary.
•Guides designers to produce accessory ranges suitable for customer expectations, seasonal range plans, and agreed price architecture, and which are aligned with apparel collections
•Monitors progress of design process against the Buying Calendar, not allowing deadlines to be missed
•Manages seasonal range plans to keep the optimum mix between core basic, key and fashion
Coordinates allocations to ensure appropriate ratios of tops to bottoms / line coordination / color coordination etc, as well as fixture planning
•Prepares seasonal budgets and design option budgets and line plans
•Monitors and revises seasonal capacity distribution