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Associate Buyer
Catherines
Columbus, OH, United States
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External Job Description
General Description
Assists Buyer with merchandise strategy and product assortments that enable the achievement of financial plans, and owner of vendor relationship. Works in collaboration with all cross functional partners to deliver departmental plans.
Performance Requirements
Positioning
Business/ Assortment Planning—assists buyer with the following:
• Develop category strategy. Identifies key categories/items and distorts them to focus on driving newness, sales and fashion penetration.
• Owns an assigned product category determined by buyer.
• Develops strategic vision of department integrating customer insight, competitive information, market intelligence, sales, fashion trends, fashion intuition and product distortion to maximize sales and profit.
• Architects balanced assortment plan that integrates fashion, lifestyle, pricing pyramids and tiered strategies.
• In season, reacts to current business trends; ensures the integration of fashion newness, develops upside strategies, recognizes product evolution and potential voids; prepares contingency plans to drive sales and profit objectives.
• Responsible for hind-sighting product performance.
Intelligence: Customer/Market/Competitive—assists buyer with the following:
• Understands the customer. Research and anticipates what the customer wants next; uses information from store visits in decision making and planning process.
• Patterns competitors and fashion leaders and understands how they are projecting their brand. Focuses on overall assortment, fashion offering, pricing/promotional cadence, and presentations. Uses information in season and future line planning.
• Manage in season sales and inventories; suggests strategies to promote where to control markdown; collaborate with buyer and planning
• Synthesizes trend intelligence and determines its relevancy to CATHERINES brand strategy.
Business Management—assists buyer with the following:
• Partners with planning and allocation around sales forecasting/planning to architect and align with business plan and department plans.
• Drives superior performance by reviewing business in-season to maximize sales and profit.
• Maintains flow of the daily office business: computer (input purchase orders, maintenance, and spreadsheets), daily communication, phone coverage, and frequently collaborates with cross functional teams such as E-Commerce, Marketing, Planning and Visual.
Product
Design/Product Development—assists buyer with the following:
• Ensure Design/Product Development are aligned and executing to the merchandising strategy from concept to market.
• Determines assortment opportunities from market resources.
• Communicates expectations to vendors, holds them accountable for the execution and results of production; provides commitments to vendors, timelines (including sample deadlines); understands work in progress and status of production.
Place
Assists buyer with the following:
• Ensure Merchandise assortment is appropriate for store layout.
• Delivers on time fashion assortment that projects one eye point of view.
• Makes merchandising/promotional recommendations to distort key categories/items which integrate with the merchandising, marketing and promotional plans.
People
Leads by example. Lives the values of the Brand
• Inspire passion/innovative thinking.
• Foster teamwork and collaboration.
• Cultivate honesty and integrity.
Takes accountability for self-learning and development. Prepares self for broader responsibilities
Requirements
• Bachelors Degree required; Fashion Merchandising or related field a plus.
• 5+ years experience in a merchandising position for leading retailers; prior internship experience in merchandising, planning, or related areas a plus.
• Understands our brand and our customer.
• A successful track record and a reputation of exceeding performance expectations.
• Team player with the ability to multi-task.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office.
• Prior experience with flexPLM, RMS and Microstrategy is a plus