Lead Associate - Buying & Merchandising

Roles:

• Responsible to manage business portfolio for Apparels
• 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

• Revenue
• Margins
• Growth of categories

• Range Planning

• 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

• Vendor Management
• Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that
• Vendor-Product Mapping
• Developing MP vendor-base for the category.

Qualifications & Experience

• 4-7 years of experience with Fashion Background.
• Preferable candidate with relevant Category experience.
• 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, analyzing and interpreting data.