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Merchandise Assistant, Designer Handbags & Soft Accessories
Saks Fifth Avenue
New York, NY, United States
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Job Description
Merchandise Assistant, Designer Handbags & Soft Accessories
The Merchandise Assistant works within the Buying team on a variety of tasks, processes, and communication. The MA primarily assists the Buying office with go-to-market preparation, sample management, tactical vendor communications, price changes, and ad hoc analysis support. The position requires frequent communication with other members of the buying team as well as with vendors, distribution centers, stores and customers.
Job Functions:
• Assist with go-to-market preparation (e.g., schedule and book appointments, assist with shopping list, partner with Assistant Planner on market prep: style selling, picture selling, class recap)
• Manage sample process for marketing and advertising submissions
• Acts as a point of contact with vendors (e.g., order tracking)
• Actively follows through with stores to ensure that RTV's and Transfers are processed in a timely manner
• Support the markdown and price change process by working with buyer and vendors to determine markdown strategy
• Communicate pricing strategies to stores through store communication tools
• Partner with India team and MA Lead to ensure processes/tasks are completed timely and accurately
• Support ad hoc analysis
• Additional responsibilities as required
Qualifications
• University or college degree or commensurate retail experience
• Preferred 1-2 years related experience in a merchandise capacity
• Excellent computer skills including MS Word and Excel.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Sense of urgency flexibility ability to multi-task.
• Willingness to learn.
• Detail oriented.
• Good organizational and clerical skills