Free People Senior Buyer

5 days ago

Philadelphia, United States Free People Full time

Role Summary:

Free People is searching for a Senior Buyer to create a compelling and timely Omni Channel product assortment that meets or exceeds the sales volume and profits for their department. They are expected to partner with their team to own and articulate a vision for this business and intuitively respond to customer feedback and market trends. In addition, this person must develop action plans that drive category specific growth and increase profitability. The Senior Buyer is responsible for the success of their business unit and is expected to use their trend and business intuition to direct the assortment of their category.

Role Responsibilities:
  • Managing a team to exceed sales and profit plan for retail, direct and wholesale business
  • Demonstrating and building collaborative relationships between design, production, merchandising, planning, allocation and sales
  • Partnering with the planning team to distort buys and ensure in-stock positioning for key items and classifications
  • Filtering high level, topline selling takeaways to divisional and director with action plan
  • Understanding the retail and wholesale calendar and ability to maximize efficiency of calendar for retail, direct and wholesale business
  • Managing, coaching, and developing buying team
  • Disciplining self and others to understand customer, competition, and ability to think creatively to seek business opportunities and drive the business
  • Managing the financials of business: OTB, IMU, MD, Closeouts, Inventory and receipt plan
  • Partnering with design and production to exceed customers expectations for brand quality
  • Partnering with the allocation/planning and sales team to thoroughly understand our store and wholesale customers (department, specialty, international and ecommerce) and develop assortments to best fit their needs
  • Analyzing assortment mix (private label, wholesale, and market) for retail, director and wholesale business

Skills:

  • Strong management and leadership skills
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
  • Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills
  • Strong financial and analytical skills
  • Incredible interpersonal skills
  • Keen awareness of emerging trends
  • A demonstrated history of smart risk taking
  • Able to prioritize tasks and balance the immediate and long term needs of the business
  • Team player

Role Qualifications:
  • An understanding of the customers wants and needs and the ability to identify the appropriate product/trend that will appeal to the customer and exceed their expectations.
  • The ability to conceptually plan assortments that meet financial objectives.
  • The ability to prioritize tasks and the ability to balance the immediate and long term needs of the business.
  • The ability to collect, assimilate, analyze, package and present information to the CEO, General Merchandise Manager and Divisional Merchandise Manager in a way that permits them to make an informed decision and take measurable action.
  • The ability to recognize a new trend, item, look, fabrication/technique early in its lifecycle.
  • Use creative thinking as an asset in recognizing and managing changing paradigms.
  • An understanding of the Free People customer and the shopping experience and that it is the final category edit for the merchandising assortment. The buyer has to possess the ability to identify, gather and assimilate information specific to our customer.
  • The ability to make the transition from strategic (conceptual and planning) to execution. Financial acumen and the ability to manipulate numbers are critical in achieving tactical objectives.
  • Leadership skills to build and develop a solid team of individuals that share a common vision and understanding of the Company.
  • The ability to develop partnerships with other Buyers, Directors and Department heads.
  • Four-year degree in Fashion or Business preferred
  • 8+ years of buying with a retailer
  • Experience managing Assistant, Associate Buyers and/or Buyers.

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The Perks:

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