Assistant Buyer, Retail

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Primary Purpose: Strategic, operational Omni channel Assistant Buyer for North America Retail Buying, Women’s Handbags

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency to…

• Assist in running weekly, monthly, and quarterly selling reports to recap and analyze business, making recommendations for driving improved performance and identifying opportunities.
• Manage SKU lifecycle from adoption to deletion, react to in season sales/learnings to determine go forward strategy and actions
• Partner with the Buyer and Associate Buyer to manage OTB and meet financial targets/productivity metrics at the SKU level for performance, sales, inventory, receipt and margin
• Assist in executing quarterly buys, meeting financial targets and assorting global offer for North America Handbag category
  • Influence women’s handbag assortments by analyzing product performance, customer feedback/data, GenZ & consumer trends, competitive landscape and local market knowledge
  • Build and maintain assortment tools and sku counts each season
• Analyze and reforecast business and implement strategies to ensure weekly/monthly/quarterly plan is achieved, including adjusting product flow and inventory management
• Influence Global Merchandising handbags assortment to advocate for North America customer needs
• Assist in working with Allocation partners to ensure that distributions meet turn goals, support marketing calendar and maximize profitability, own weekly meetings
• Assist in partnering with Ecommerce Merchandising, Marketing, Product Knowledge, Visual Merchandising and Store Operations teams to create synergies among all consumer touch points
• Partner with field team to solicit qualitative feedback on product, customers, store environments & competition

The accomplished individual will possess…

• B.A. or B.S. or equivalent experience in buying/planning
• 1+ years of Buying and/or Planning experience
• Strong analytical and recap skills
• Self-motivated and diligent in completing and initiating tasks
• Detail oriented, organized, ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
• Team player with a focus on collaboration
• Highly skilled in Excel and proficient learner of planning and buying systems

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer infor