Manager - Buying

Manager buying ( Lingerie)

Roles and Responsibilities

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
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
Team Management
Leading a team of designer, factory operations and sourcing
Vendor Management
Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that
Vendor-Product Mapping
Building fabric base, printing base network and vendor base
Supply Chain
Building processes to ensure the production happens within 30 days from concept to delivery Collaborative Partnership
Liasoning with all the brands
Co-ordinating with sales and marketing for the growth of category

Qualifications & Experience

4-7 years of experience with Fashion Background.
Familiarity with category management for lingerie 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.