Buyer(Men's Apparel)

Duties And Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of driving sales, margin, and turn within category of responsibility to meet financial goals.
• Collaborate with planners & Associate Merchant to analyze sales, margin, and inventory, identify trends and recommend/execute business opportunities and minimize risks.
• Partner with VP Merchandising to complete top down and bottoms up planning for category both annually and monthly in OTB.
• Analyze OTB and act as necessary by recommending changes to future on order, RTV's, pricing or markdown strategies.
• Build and maintain strong vendor relationships, negotiating terms and margin.
• Manage internal and external category & vendor communication in collaboration with marketing partners.
• Clearly define key priorities and develop a strategy for assortment, pricing, and Omnichannel marketing touchpoints to drive category & vendor sales.
• Collaborate with director of merchandising to ensure effective communication to store leadership regarding product flow, priorities, opportunities, signage and markdown execution.
• Execute assortment plans, product selection/sourcing, pricing, vendor negotiations and promotional marketing.
• Work with merchandise planners/replenishment manager to ensure proper stock levels and fill rates of core items.
• Create and provide direction for store planning, signage and visual merchandising in partnership with Manager of Merchandise Execution.
• Formulate pricing strategies, negotiate discounts when appropriate, and execute markdown strategy.
• Collaborate with store leadership to align on customer needs and make appropriate adjustments to assortment and inventory.
• Prepare and oversee store communication for area of responsibility.
• Respond to all store feedback and proactively. Provide specific feedback in partnership with planner, associate merchant.

Qualifications And Skills Required

• Experience: 5 or more years of experience in a retail-buying environment required.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Strong proficiency in retail math and data analysis.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to work well in a team environment and work independently.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to lead through complexity.
• Strong PC skills (MS office,) must include excel, BI.
• Excellent follow-through and attention to detail.
• Commitment to customer service for both external and internal customers.
• Golf interest preferred.
• Must be assertive and eager to grow in an extremely fast-paced organization.