Manager - Buying
Manager – Buying
Roles:
- Responsible to manage business portfolio for business.
- A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business –
- Analytics, financial planning, range planning, sourcing and managing people – vendors & team.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to optimize sales for a group of products
o Revenue
o Margins
o Growth of categories
- Range Planning
o Product-Brand mapping
o Product range planning for the category Planning
o Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability
o Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
o Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis
- Option planning
o OTB working along with the central planning team
- Inventory Management
o Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
- Team Management
o Leading a team of designer, factory operations and sourcing
- Vendor Management
o Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that
o Vendor-Product Mapping
o Building fabric base, printing base network and vendor base
- Supply Chain
o Building processes to ensure the production happens within 30 days from concept to delivery Collaborative Partnership
o Liasoning with all the brands
o Co-ordinating with sales and marketing for the growth of category
Qualifications & Experience
- 4-6 years of experience with Fashion Background.
- Familiarity with category management for relevant category.
- Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
- Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
● Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
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