Senior Manager - Buying & Merchandising (Mast & Harbour)

Roles and Responsibilities
Roles:
● Responsible to manage business portfolio for business.
● 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
o Revenue
o Margins
o Growth of categories
● Range Planning
o Product-Brand mapping
o Product range planning for the category Planning
o Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability
o Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
o Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis
● Option planning
o OTB working along with the central planning team
● Inventory Management
o Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
● Team Management
o Leading a team of designer, factory operations and sourcing
● Vendor Management
o Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that
o Vendor-Product Mapping
o Building fabric base, printing base network and vendor base
● Supply Chain
o Building processes to ensure the production happens within 30 days from concept to
delivery Collaborative Partnership
o Liasoning with all the brands
o Co-ordinating with sales and marketing for the growth of category

Qualifications & Experience
● 5-7 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, analysing and interpreting data.