Associate Buyer, Women's Outlet, Wallets & Specialty Accessories

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Associate Buyer, Women’s Outlet, Wallets & Specialty Accessories, North America Outlet Omni / New York, NY

 

Primary Purpose: The Associate Buyer will execute buying strategies for the Outlet Women’s Accessories category. This is a great opportunity for an individual with outstanding analytical and communication skills, who is strategic and operational.

 

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Buying to...

 

• Influence category assortments by analyzing product performance, customer feedback, consumer trend, competitive landscape and local market knowledge to global merchants/design
• Manage OTB to meet financial targets and productivity metrics at the SKU level for performance, sales, inventory, AUR, receipt and margin goals
• Execute quarterly buys to meet financial targets and global offer
• Continuously analyze and reforecast business and implement strategies to ensure plan is achieved, including adjusting product flow and inventory management
• Manage SKU lifecycle from adoption to delete, react to in season sales to determine go forward strategy 
• Run weekly sales analysis, organize and distribute reports, and participate in sales meetings
• Build and maintain assortment tools and sku counts
• Partner with Ecom, Marketing, Global Merchandising, Visual Merchandising and Store Operations teams to create synergies among all consumer touch points  
• Work closely with Inventory Management and Allocation to ensure that distributions meet turn goals, support marketing calendar and maximize profitability
• Partner with field team to solicit qualitative feedback on product, customers, store environments & competition

 

The accomplished individual will possess...

 

• 2+ years of Buying and/or Planning experience 
• Equivalent combination of education and experienve will be considered
• Strong product sensibility
• Advanced working knowledge of Excel and a Planning system
• Strong strategic thinking and outstanding analytical/quantitative skills
• Collaborative team player with the ability to manage cross-functional relationships across multiple levels
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Highly organized and proactive with a strong attention to detail and accuracy 
• Ability to multitask

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 information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts