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Assistant Buyer
Fashion Industry Company
Columbus, OH, United States
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Assistant Buyer - Cacique
External Job Description
The Assistant Buyer supports the creation and execution of the merchandise strategy for a subset of the brand in the short term. Supplies customer insights, competitive intelligence, and trend observations. Responsible for data integrity throughout the product life cycle including buy preparation, order generation/management, and market selling. Assists the merchant team with historical analysis, assortment planning, and sample management.
Business Management:
• Prepares weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting for merchant and planning teams.
• Ranks product and presents insights and recommendations by combining data analysis and customer insights from in store work, ecom and social media.
• Documents monthly and quarterly product ranking and hindsights
• Supports Merchant in reacting to current business trends
• Works cross functionally with planning, product development, and design to ensure the on time and accurate delivery (WIP, CFT, etc).
Business Operations:
• Responsible for taking notes and publishing for all Merchant managed vertical meetings
• Manage data integrity including reconcile On Order report, preparing POs, and updating information in the system and with cross-functional partners throughout the process
Cross Functional Support of Product Execution:
• Partner with Visual on floor set placement of product to insure that all styles are represented and volume and fashion projection objectives are met.
• Support the development educational and event tools for Store Operations.
• Partner with Merchandising Operations to ensure data integrity.
• Partner with Allocation on monthly floorset meetings.
Assortment Development:
• Responsible for creating and maintaining assortment tools including Vendor Projections, CAP, Attribute Reporting, Choice Count Sheets, eForm
• Support Merchant, Planning and Allocation on promotional cadence, flow order, color/size buys, minimum /maximum quantities, etc.
Sample Management:
• Order, track and maintain all product samples
• Provide samples to business partners as neededPrepares samples for PR and Marketing turn ins throughout the season
• Responsible for submitting product for outfit guides, Ecom turn in, and push report
Competitive Intelligence:
• Supports the merchant in developing a line that represents the brand through competitive intelligence and business analysis.
• Patterns competitors and fashion leaders and understands how they are projecting their brand. Focuses on overall assortment, fashion offering, pricing/promotional cadence, and presentations. Reports on and uses findings/information in season and future line planning
Customer Insights:
• Provide the voice of the customer.
• Research and anticipate what the customer wants next and why.
• Gather information from working with customers in stores, trend information and historical knowledge.
Requirements
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising, retail management or business related field preferred.
Experience:
• 1-2 years of experience in a merchandising related position for a fashion retailer.
Skills:
• Proficient in Word, Excel and Power Point, and Outlook. Microstrategy and FlexPLM preferred.
• Acute attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and manage priorities
• Must have a sense of urgency and personal accountability
• Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills
All Replies Confidential / Equal Opportunity Employer