Roles and Responsibilities

Roles:

• Responsible to manage the buying portfolio for Womens Apparel 

• A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business including Analytics, financial planning, range planning and managing direct and functional teams

• Responsible for Business Growth & Profitability (topline, bottomline) for the portfolio including Inventory Planning, Assortment and directly managing the Buying function while working functionally with Sourcing, Design, Planning, Business Finance & Marketing teams.

 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to optimize sales for the portfolio including

• Revenue

• Margins

• Growth of categories

• Range Planning (Assortment)

• Product-Brand mapping

• Product range planning for the category Planning

• Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability

• Trend forecasts and implement sale plans

• Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis

• Option planning

• OTB working along with the central planning team

• Inventory Management

• Planning for the inventory flow for entire category

• Team Management

• Leading a team of buyers to manage the Apparel buying

• Vendor Management

• Responsible for managing vendors through Sourcing 

• Vendor-Product Mapping

• Building fabric base, printing base network and vendor base

• Supply Chain

• Enabling & building an optimal supply chain

• Co-ordinating with all functional teams to ensure and deliver Business Growth & margins

 

Qualifications & Experience

 

• 5+ years of experience with Apparel Buying Background

• Experience as a mix of online & offline would be a plus

• Product Category experience  for Womens wearcategories

• Excellent with numbers and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.

• Strong communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with Senior stakeholders, peers & juniors

• Strong team building & team management skills