Buying Head - Ladies Ethnic Wear - eCommerce

Company profile: Online Business, One of the India's larges textile brand, Bangalore

JD:

- Product buying, driving sales & profitability with monitoring, balancing and delivering against range architecture. Responsible for identifying, on boarding, negotiating and managing brands/vendors for a specific vertical.

- Sharp understanding of market (both domestic and international).

- Understanding of competition in continuum with continuous tracking

- Sharp analytical skills

- Buy plan in coordination with the Category Manager

- Responsible for product selection and assortment decisions

- Range Plan Strategy Season wise, Month wise & Week wise

- Responsible for setting product pricing through margin analysis and competitive market research

- Analyze multiple seasons of historical performance to establish trends and opportunities

- Partner with merchandiser and store team to balance inventory and assortment across the stores

- Responsible for tracking and tracing shipments from order to shipment to receipt

- To achieve annual business targets set by the company

- New Stores fixtures set up for private labels and brands

- Strategy plan & mark down structure for end of season sale & promotions

- Improve quality & increase net margins through better costing & controlled mark downs

- Team management & development (to Create Healthy Working Environment to get Better Results)

- Vendor Management

- Detailed analysis related to sales & stocks to understand the performance of the category & to plan accordingly to improve further. Communicate over/under bought situations and provide recommendations for resolution.

- Conduct training programmes at stores to increase product knowledge of front end staff & motivate them to get better results in terms of increase in sales

- Seasonal Photo shoots and Store Visits.