Free People Assistant Buyer

About the role

Free People is looking for an Assistant Buyer who is responsible for working with the Buyer to create an exciting and timely product assortment that meets or exceeds the sales volume and profits for their department.

Responsibilities

• Assortment Execution: work with the Buyer to determine the overall mix of product for each buying area to ensure that the final mix is ultimately customer oriented and curated to achieve a set profit plan.
• Provide feedback regularly on the product in all styleout and product related meetings.
• Contribute to product development by collaborating with buyer and vendor partners.
• Organizational Support: provide ad hoc statistical reports to Buyers upon request, maintain accurate Buy Sheets, and maintain some excel reports for buyers and planners as needed.
• Sample Management: manage the samples within the Department, obtain samples from vendors, and maintain a tidy sample area.
• Communication: speak clearly in all meetings and email correspondence, ensure all written documents are grammatically correct, and represent the UO brand and customer to all outward facing market vendors.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate an understanding of the target customer and the ability to select the appropriate product/trend that will appeal to the customer and meet their expectations.
• Fundamental understanding of the statistical components of the business (IMU%, MD%, GM%, selloff, WOS, etc.) and the OTB.
• Exhibit a professional communication style (both verbal and written) as shown through strong presentation skills, excellent organizational skills and a high sense of urgency.
• Prioritize tasks in order to balance the immediate and long term needs of the business with a high sense of urgency.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) and the ability to learn new computer systems quickly and retain the information.

Benefits

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees, including medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more.