Buyer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Experience
- 10 years’ experience in Buying, Assortment Strategy and Planning, physical and digital
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
The Buyer is an analytical fashion curator who propels Andrews’ vision forward with clear and effective task prioritisation and allocation for themselves and across the Buying Team.
Buying - Strategy
clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Buying – Operations
The Following Outlines Highlights Of Essential Activities
10 years’ experience in Buying, Assortment Strategy and Planning, physical and digital
merchandising; covering planning through to execution, with experience in but not exclusive to:
Buying - Strategy
- In collaboration with the Merchant, co-own the design and execution of the seasonal strategy,
- Trend research according to industry best practices and undertake competitive benchmarking
- Research of new brands, categories, and products according to the interests and needs of the
- Seasonal Post-Mortem / 360’s vendor, category and sub-category performance review
- Effective budget and Open to Buy budget management, whilst applying a balance of
- Block Plan development, taking into consideration vendors, categories (classes and subclasses) based on previous sales (to include sales by colour and size) and forecasts.
- Identify points of intersection between legacy and digital buying processes for collaborative
clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Buying – Operations
The Following Outlines Highlights Of Essential Activities
- Planning and Budget Management
- Reviewing previous year’s performance against budget to set the merchandising direction and
- Analyse data and feedback to assess the day-to-day performance of physical and digital
- Ensure provision of product performance reporting, while communicating opportunities and
- Management and Merchandise Mix
- Ensure Assortment Plan is balanced; factoring in the Essentials, Seasonal Trends – bringing
- Ensure Vendor Matrix is continuously refined and strategy-aligned; making recommendations for the offboarding of underperforming vendors and the onboarding of brand-ambition vendors
- Build and maintain relationships with our vendors, proactively seeking out opportunities to
- Product Activation:
- Collaborate with bricks-and-mortar and ecommerce to ensure a consistent brand voice across the company-wide product assortment
- Ensure optimal representation of assortment is reflected digitally and in-store
- Ensure key evergreen and seasonal product and brand knowledge is effectively communicated
- Stay abreast of customer engagement and feedback in collaboration with the digital team and physical stores.
10 years’ experience in Buying, Assortment Strategy and Planning, physical and digital
merchandising; covering planning through to execution, with experience in but not exclusive to:
- Retail Math, Financial Planning and Budget Management (e.g., Budget, Open to Buy budget)
- Strategy Development and Planning
- Vendor Management
- Analysis (e.g., trend forecasting, product research, brand matrix, consumer behaviour, competitive benchmarking)
- Inventory management (e.g., replenishment, stock level management)
- Brand and product launch management
More about this job
Responsibilities
Develop and execute seasonal buying strategies, manage budgets and assortment plans, and analyze sales and product performance across physical and digital channels. Build vendor relationships, guide merchandise mix and product activation, and coordinate with teams to improve buying processes and communicate opportunities and risks.
Requirements
Requires 10 years of experience in buying, assortment strategy and planning, and physical and digital merchandising, from planning through execution. Relevant expertise includes retail math, financial and budget management, vendor management, trend and consumer analysis, inventory management, and brand and product launches.
Skills
- Buying Strategy
- Assortment Planning
- Budget Management
- Open-to-Buy Management
- Retail Math
- Financial Planning
- Vendor Management
- Trend Forecasting
- Competitive Benchmarking
- Product Research
- Consumer Behavior Analysis
- Inventory Management
- Replenishment Planning
- Merchandise Planning
- Performance Analysis
- Brand and Product Launch Management
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Categories
- Retail
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Buying
- Seasonal Strategy
- Trend Research
- Competitive Benchmarking
- Brand Research
- Category Planning
- Seasonal Post-Mortem
- Vendor Performance Review
- Open-to-Buy Budget
- Block Plan
- Digital Buying
- Physical Retail
- Merchandise Mix
- Assortment Plan
- Allocation Plan
- Vendor Matrix
- Vendor Negotiations
- Product Activation
- Ecommerce
- Customer Feedback
- Retail Math
- Financial Planning
- Budget Management
- Consumer Behavior
- Inventory Management
- Replenishment
- Stock Level Management
- Brand Launch Management
- Product Launch Management