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.