Replenishment Buyer

What You'll Do

• Analyze, anticipate and monitor inventory levels for assigned departments
• Forecast company inventory levels to determine products to reorder
• Drive revenue, receipt plans, and seasonal inventory strategies for key items
• Partner with test buyers, merchandising, production, and planners on open-to-buy management to achieve financial goals and strategic objectives
• Partner with test buyers to develop product plans to support seasonal department merchandise strategies based on customers' expectations and fashion trends
• Manage inventory levels, ensuring effective decision-making around analysis, markdowns, orders, etc.
• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors
• Own daily onsite merchandising of assigned departments
• Ad hoc projects as needed

What You'll Need

• Bachelors degree required
• At least 2 years of retail buying experience; core/basic buying within the fast fashion sector a plus
• Excellent communication; written, oral, and group facilitation
• Demonstrate cooperative behavior with colleagues, supervisors, and managers at all times
• Work well under pressure. Meet multiple, and sometimes competing deadlines
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships both internally and externally
• Apply logical thinking and sound judgment to a wide range of practical problems
• Strong retail math skills are critical
• Strong excel skills required (including formulas such as sumifs, vlookups, etc., and pivot tables)
• Must be able to work independently
• Solid understanding of the Lulus brand
• Solid understanding of current trends within the fast fashion space