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Gap Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
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• The Buyer develops, executes, and communicates merchandise assortment plans, financial plans and strategies that support the merchandising, marketing and financial objectives of the department.
• Collaborate with leadership and cross-channel partners to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities by division/department and class.
• Represent division and present a point of view in business and milestone meetings including financial results, forecast and strategies.
• Create pre-season sales, gross margin and inventory plans by division and department that support product strategies.
• Own open-to-buy forecasts. Present financial forecast and supporting action plans in open-to-buy/monthly forecast meetings.
• Manage and communicate markdown & promotional recommendations and strategies.
• Develop/decide the product assortment, merchandise point of view, shop strategies, key item positioning, and promotional plans; ensuring that the collection is compelling, commercially viable and supports overall business objectives
• Leads management of the website to create a compelling product experience on the site, to include inspirational merchandise presentation, simple and intuitive category navigation, and clear and accurate product details.
• Builds strong partnerships with other members of the cross-functional team and brand counterparts.
• Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best-practices and develop systems knowledge.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities
• Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Demonstrates strong listening, written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrates logical analysis and problem solving skills
• Able to interpret current business results to identify key learnings and develop future strategies
• Possesses a clear understanding of financial measurements including: sales, gross margin, inventory productivity measures, etc. and how to impact them
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• 1-2 years merchandising or buying experience
• 1-2 years of retail buying, planning or related analytical experience