Footwear Buyer
Mr Price Group - Mr Price Sport
Total des années d'expérience :11 years, 5 Mois
Mr Price Group is one of the biggest clothing retailer in Southern Africa,
Currently responsible for Mens, Ladies and Youths footwear portfolio including Watersports and Seasonal Sports footwear.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Bi-annual strategy development, presentation, execution and review.
- Range building in accordance with the strategy.
- Range presentations to management (Managing Director and CEO)
- Monitor In-season trading of the business
- Weekly current trade meetings - Business analysis per week (draw conclusions and Identify action)
- Preparing Tech pack and briefing to suppliers
- Order capturing / raising
- Developing new seasonal product.
- Maintaining and developing supplier relationships both locally and abroad.
- Evaluating suppliers and building supplier strategy
- Managing relationships with in-house services
- Working with Quality Assurance department to do Fits / Pre-production samples
- Liaise with Resource and Shipping departments to track and trace deliveries
- Liaising with the Marketing department on merchandising, store advertising and editorials.
- Liaising with Operations, Distribution and Warehousing.
- Store visits and competitive analysis.
- Trends for both local and international markets.
- Negotiating, costing and pricing hierarchy of products.
- Working closely within a team to ensure optimal performance of the division.
My fashion flair and product selecting experience allows me to be able to buy the right product at the right time for the right customer.Aiming at providing a balanced assortment of merchandise in order to achieved sales budged, gross profit and gross profit percentage; to assist in working towards appropriate stock turn levels and increase overall market share.
- Conduct weekly analysis on business performance,
- Monitor product performance indicators
- Using available systems, extract and analyze historical sales data so that previous successes are identified.
- Prepare information on seasonal trends to be communicated to the planning team and the beginning of each season and to interpret requirements for seasonal buying plans.
Market Intelligence - Merchandise
- Regularly research, analyze relevant data in order to monitor future plans against ongoing research results to maintain alignment with existing/emerging trends.
- Monitor competitor activities and provide detailed feedback on competitor analysis to buyer, provide recommendations on possible actions resulting from the competitor analysis.
- Monitor supplier performance through regular evaluations of quality and commitment to deliver within stipulated frameworks.
- Negotiate with supplier to get the best cost price without compromising the product.
- Build solid and trustworthy relationships with suppliers.
- Analyse sales information over specified periods so the changes in product cycles are identified and feedback is given to the buyer for incorporation into future plans.
Bachelor of Commerce : Economics, Finance and Supply Chain Management : Completed 2010 : University Of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) Pietermaritzburg Campus Third Year (2009): Economics: Development Economics, Monetary Economics, Quantitative Economics, And International Trade Economics. Supply Chain Management: Purchasing Management & Contemporary Issues, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Physical distribution. Fourth Year (2010): Finance: Financial Risk management, Capital market Theory, Corporate Financial Management, Quantitative Economics HIGHER EDUCATION Westville Boys’ High School - Afrikaans (HG), Geography (HG), English (HG), Art (HG), Mathematics (SG), Physical Science (HG) UNIVERSITY ACHIEVEMENTS Economics101 tutor, Economics 102 tutor, Black management forum attendant. Youth leader, Bible study leader, Youth camp counselor COMPUTER LITERACY / SKILLS Microsoft word - Advanced, Microsoft PPT - Advanced, Microsoft Excel - Advanced, Microsoft Pivots – Advanced, Retek Ordering System, ProClarity, M.O.D.E, Adobe Photoshop –Beginner.