Buyer- Footwear
Apparel Group
Total years of experience :11 years, 5 Months
• Research and present latest women's footwear trends for retail stores & online business.
• Develop commercially viable range of women’s footwear tailored to our customers’ needs in accordance with the range budget.
• Analysis of sell through co-efficient, best seller, slow mover analysis, providing input for mark down to planning.
• Following and analysing market trends, studies, and liaising with suppliers and other vendors to ensure quality of products.
• Ensuring regional team feedback implementation in range, regular store visit to understand the gap.
• Analysis of sell through co-efficient, best seller, slow mover analysis, providing input for mark down to planning.
• Ensuring VM display as per buy plan, stories, ensuring product aesthetic on sales floor.
• Studying the market and anticipating the performance of new products before launching
• Attending showcases (Canton fair), seminars, and expositions to learn about new and upcoming products.
• Working closely with sourcing team for product development, range building, options plan, store working for retails stores & online business.
• Sell reports analysis for product feedback, weekly review on best seller, slow mover.
• Major focus on balanced product for 16-28 age group customer.
• Dedicated to improvement-apparel business to 15% from 10% currently.
• Contributing to achieve brand growth by achieving non-apparel growth.
• Collaborating with different function VM team, Training team, finance(PO) to provide best aesthetic, best service on floor.
• Incorporating regional team feedback to range to understand market needs.
• CEO input (brand head) inputs for better guidance.
• Works with design and merchandising to build a commercial and inspirational range for the product area.
• Review of sale through co-eff to identify slow movers, fast seller, additional order for repeats if required.
• Develop commercially viable range of women’s footwear tailored to our customers’ needs in accordance with the given OTB.
• Collaborating with different function VM team, Training team, finance(PO) to provide best aesthetic, best service on floor.
• Building and planning a balanced assortment across time in the correct store grids to
achieve sales plan.
• Comparative costing, price negotiations and supplier selection according to price, ability
to create product, quality and shipping window.
• Working closely with the planner to ensure correct volume and flow of product with proper allocation to
the right stores in line with delivery deadlines.
• Strong awareness of the market place, competitors, pricing policies and exchange rate.
• Attend trade shows, buying trips and competitor and aspirational brands sample buy trips.
• Controlling and implementing the sourcing and manufacturing of the goods.
• Achieving target margin sales in accordance with the group strategy.
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