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26/02 Dickson Pereira
CEO at Exceed Consulting

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Director - Buying - Apparel & Accessories - Private Labels & Value Chain (15-20 yrs)

Dubai Job Code: 545614

One of the Leading Retail Groups in the Middle East is looking out for a Head of Buying for Apparels and Accessories to be based Dubai, UAE with strong buying experience with the major focus in buying in Women Apparels and Accessories.

As a Head Buyer, you are responsible for managing the buying for within multiple high-growth departments for the Women Apparels and Accessories Business. It's your job to oversee a team to effectively develop suites of products - determining competitive pricing that lives up to our brand promise and analyzing marketplace trends to identify new opportunities for the future and to transition if they are past their prime - ensuring business plans are a - win-win- for our customers and the company. Creativity and agility will be paramount as you identify retail trends and synthesize information and partnerships across multiple cross-functional touch points - providing forecasts and business solutions in a fast-paced, multi-dimensional environment.

You won't do this alone. You work within the world-class team of collaborative colleagues and have access to industry-leading merchandising tools and technology to help you analyze and interpret customer, partner, market, business and financial insights at scale. Your job is to bring the - art- to the - science- using your intuition and expertise fueled by data, analytics and, above all, a passion for helping our customers save money and live better.

Position Description

- Develops and implements strategic direction for the Women Apparels and Accessories Category.

- Drives sales and gross profit through the optimization of the product assortment.

- Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects for merchandising concepts

- Ensures business needs are being met

- Maximizes the return on inventory investment in partnership with the Merchandise Planning team, cross-functional partners, and suppliers

- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates

- Supports cross-channel and company initiatives to achieve global strategic multi-channel plans

Minimum Qualifications

- 10+ years of proven experience in merchandise, forecasting, and product selection with at last 5 years in Women Apparels and Accessories buying.

- Managerial experience developing Assoc. Buyers and Buyers and worked

- In addition, must have experience developing strong business relationships with vendors and industry leaders

- Must have experience managing and creating new categories of business in extremely competitive environment

- Must have experience with high risk, high volume, complex categories.

- Must have experience managing margin to meet category objectives

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

- Travel required roughly once per quarter

Additional Preferred Qualifications

- Proven history of managing complex projects to successful completion

- Experience developing, training and leading a team

- Passionate about retail

- Self-starter

- Willingness to learn and grow

- Ability to think outside of role

This job opening was posted long time back. It may not be active. Nor was it removed by the recruiter. Please use your discretion.

Women-friendly workplace:

Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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