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Assistant Buyer
Catherines
Columbus, OH, United States
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Assistant Buyer, Intimate Apparel, Sleep, Swim
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General Description
Assists Buyer in the development and execution of merchandise strategy and product assortments that enable the achievement of financial plans. Works in collaboration with all cross functional partners to deliver departmental plans.
Business Line Planning-assists the buyer with the following:
• Development of a strategic vision for the department integrating customer insight, competitive information, market intelligence, sales, fashion trends, fashion intuition and product distortion to maximize sales and profit.
• Architecture of a balanced line plan that integrates fashion, lifestyle, fit, pricing pyramids and tiered strategies.
• In season, reaction to current business trends; ensuring the integration of fashion newness, development of upside strategies, recognition of product evolution and potential voids; preparation of contingency plans to drive sales and profit objectives.
Intelligence: Customer/Market/Competitor--assists the buyer with the following:
• Understanding the customer research and anticipating what the customer wants next; using information from store visits in decision making and planning process.
• Patterning 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.
• Synthesizing intelligence (customer/market/competitors) and determines its relevancy to CATHERINES brand strategy.
• Owns the Intelligence: Customer/Market/Competitor responsibilities for an assigned category.
Business Management--assists the buyer with the following:
• Pre-seasonally, partners with planning and allocation around sales forecasting/planning, promotional cadence, flow order, color/size buys, minimum/maximum quantities, etc.
• Driving superior performance by reviewing business in-season to maximize sales and profit; owning the in-season management of sales and profits in partnership with Planning & Allocation Teams.
Product Development-assists the buyer with the following:
• Collaborates with Product Development in fabric development and selection.
• Selecting fashion styles that fit and flatter multiple body types, offering diverse styling and are customer intimate.
• Ensuring the final assortment is integrated with the Design Concept and the Product Strategy.
Sourcing and Production-assists the buyer with the following:
• Considering the variables to manufacturing the product; making decisions to insure the cost, retail price, margin, quality, capacity or delivery date of a garment to meet the business needs.
• Determining sampling vendor(s) with Product Development partners.
• Selecting a single vendor with Product Development partners to bulk manufacture each product from pre-approved list based on the vendor’s capabilities to meet the business needs.
• Communicating the expectations to vendors, holding them accountable for the execution and results of production; providing projections to vendors to minimize capacity and production problems.
• Developing and managing time/action calendars to ensure on time delivery; understanding work in progress or status of production; minimizing risks/liabilities and maximizing profitable opportunities
Requirements
• Bachelors Degree required; Fashion Merchandising or related field a plus.
• 0-3 years experience in merchandising positions; prior internship experience in merchandising, planning, or related areas a plus.
• 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 exposure to flexPLM, RMS and Microstrategy is a plus