Manager - Buying and Merchandising

 Manager - Buying & Merchandising | Luggage | Men's

A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business –Analytics, financial planning, range planning, sourcing and managing people – vendors & team.

Responsibilities

Responsible to optimize sales for a group of products

• Revenue
• Margins
• Growth of categories
• Range Planning
  
  
• Product-Brand mapping
• Product range planning for the category Planning
• In-Depth Product Knowledge with cost understanding
• Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitabilityTrend forecasts and implement sale plans
• Competition Analysis with respect to trends and overall assortment matrix
• Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis
• Option planning

• OTB working along with the central planning team
• Inventory Management
• Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
• Team Management
• Leading a team of designer, factory operations and sourcing
• Vendor Management
• Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that
• Vendor-Product Mapping
• Building fabric base, printing base network and vendor base
• Supply Chain
• Building processes to ensure the production happens within 30 days from concept to delivery Collaborative Partnership
• Liasoning with all the brands
• Co-ordinating with sales and marketing for the growth of category
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

• 4+ years of experience with Fashion Background.
• Familiarity with category management for relevant category.
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
• Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data.