Senior International Buyer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>WHY JOIN ALO?</strong></p> <p>Mindful movement. It’s at the core of why we do what we do at ALO—it’s our calling. Because mindful movement in the studio leads to better living. It changes who yogis are off the mat, making their lives and their communities better. That’s the real meaning of studio-to-street: taking the consciousness from practice on the mat and putting it into practice in life.</p></div><p><strong>OVERVIEW</strong></p> <p>As Senior International Buyer, you will be partnering closely with North America Buying, International Planning, and Global Merchandising teams to drive the success and rapid growth of the international business by conducting detailed analyses of historical data and future trends. At Alo, the buying team is responsible for forecasting the unit sales of the seasonal &amp; carryover assortments within their division. Buyers are expected to use their strong financial skills as well as their fashion intuition to accurately put together seasonal buys, rank the assortment and give recommendations on the assortment based on their findings. You will be expected to show leadership within the Buying Team, as well as help manage and mentor junior members of the team.</p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBLITIES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Put together the sales forecast and units needed from a bottoms up perspective for all Carryover and Seasonal style-colors for International markets</li> <li>Ensure buys are not oversated or understated to help drive channel financial targets &amp; KPIs</li> <li>Present seasonal buy to buying director &amp; leadership teams</li> <li>Help Manage the financial elements of the business with Merchandising &amp; Planning, i.e. Open-To-Buy, Gross Margin Targets, SKU/Unit Plans, etc. for assigned categories</li> <li>Drive growth by partnering with Merchandising team to develop seasonal assortment strategies with respect to category split, store capacities, SKU count, breadth vs. depth, and new vs. carryover</li> <li>Analyze sales in-season and post-season, utilize learnings to inform in-season and future season actions, strategies, and assortments. Be able to recommend style-colors that should become carryovers and never be out of stock.</li> <li>Use the sales performance of each style-color to help identify phase outs and markdowns</li> <li>Present seasonal hindsight in concert with your team and the planning team. Identify opportunities, risks, hits, misses, and develop associated action plans</li> <li>Attend all pertinent meetings for your division(s) and provide recommendations as needed based on knowledge of trend and selling data</li> <li>Communicate business needs with internal cross-functional partners, including Plannin