Buyer Women's Wear, American Eagle

Designation: Manager
Updated: October 17, 2024
Location: Karnataka, India
Organization: Apparels

Job Description:

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 4-9years

Education: Graduate and above

Preferred skills: Buying, OTB Planning


Key Result Areas


Merchandise assortment plan for all stores

  • Create appropriate buying plan for assigned category as per Sales targets
  • Set ARP targets for product categories
  • Create Option plan and conduct depth analysis
  • Formulate Stock to Sale plan for a season – EOM / BOM
  • OTB calculation
  • Create appropriate buying plan
  • Creating/Buying Flash Line as per the current trends for A+ Stores


Monthly Target setting for each category

  • Breaking up of Monthly targets into product category
  • Target Vs achievement
  • Merchandise plan report
  • Product performance Lk2Lk


Inventory Mgmt

  • Ensure Ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained
  • Dormancy within specified norms
  • Pullback within specified norms 
  • Sell thru reports on Excel for Week1, week2 sales
  • Photo Sell Through Report


Stock & sale plan

  • Product category wise dispatch plan
  • Planned Vs actual
  • Allocation plan for each store as per dispatch plan and size wise analysis
  • Tracking allocation vs actual dispatches


Market Intelligence

  • New launches (competition product / window / schemes)
  • Competition Mapping
  • Training (Merchandise, Product & VM related)
  • Estimation of market, product & design trends


Core Business Contribution

  • Monitoring to enhance the category contribution % of total business of LTL basis
  • Identifying new designs to be added to this category


Range Architecture to Product

  • Providing Range architecture for a specific season to product and design. With Category wise option grid with learning from past seasons and from market forecasting


Integrated Go To Market (IGTM)

  • Planning for a successful IGTM story along with VM and design
  • Dessing up one key store for the look
  • Roll – out across stores


Integration with space planning

  • Working in close co-ordination with retail planner to closely monitor returns from space allocated

Qualifications:
Under Graduate

Minimum Experience Level:
5-9 Years

Report to:
General Manager

 
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