Senior Buyer | R2 Commerce
📍 Location: Toronto, Ontario
💰 Salary: Up to $160,000 CAD
🌴 Vacation: 3 weeks
🏥 Benefits: Health benefits included
What you’ll do:
✅ Assortment and buy execution: Turn the seasonal assortment plan into decisions on unit investment and style mix, guided by sales data and OTB guidelines.
✅ Channel and store-level sizing: Use sales by style, channel and store to right-size units for every ecommerce and retail location.
✅ Budget and PO control: Partner with Finance and Planning to ensure you're staying within budgets and OTB management.
✅ Supply chain coordination: Partner closely with Supply Chain to spot delivery risks early and resolve them before they affect launches, sell-through or margin.
✅ In-season trading: Review performance weekly and recommend reorders, depth shifts, price changes or exits.
✅ Markdown and end-of-life management: Plan the timing, depth and scope of markdowns, exits and transfers to clear inventory while protecting margin and brand.
✅ Reporting and seasonal review: Deliver weekly, seasonal and ad hoc reports, and lead end-of-season hindsight reviews.
✅ Cross-functional collaboration: Work with Marketing, Ecommerce, Retail and Supply Chain so launches and in-season actions land consistently.
✅ Team coaching: Guide Associate Buyers through investment decisions and help them build sound, data-backed rationale.
What you bring: 🧠
🔹 6+ years of apparel buying or merchandising experience
🔹 Strong retail math skills: OTB, IMU, sell-through, markdown optimization
🔹 Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills
🔹 Multi-channel experience (ecommerce and retail).
