Senior Buyer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
💰 Salary: Up to $160,000 CAD · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- 💰 Salary: Up to $160,000 CAD
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Experience
- 🔹 6+ years of apparel buying or merchandising experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
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).
More about this job
Responsibilities
Execute seasonal assortment and buying plans by allocating units across styles, channels, and stores while managing budgets, purchase orders, and open-to-buy. Monitor performance and supply risks, recommend in-season actions and markdowns, deliver reporting and seasonal reviews, collaborate across functions, and coach Associate Buyers.
Requirements
Requires at least six years of apparel buying or merchandising experience and strong retail math skills, including open-to-buy, initial markup, sell-through, and markdown optimization. Candidates should have advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills and experience across ecommerce and retail channels.
Skills
- Apparel Buying
- Merchandising
- Assortment Planning
- Unit Investment
- Style Mix
- Sales Analysis
- Channel And Store-Level Sizing
- Open-To-Buy Management
- Budget And Purchase Order Control
- Supply Chain Coordination
- In-Season Trading
- Reorder Planning
- Markdown Optimization
- Inventory Management
- Advanced Excel Or Google Sheets
- Team Coaching
Benefits
- Health Benefits
- Three Weeks Of Vacation
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Retail
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
- Logistics
Keywords
- Apparel Buying
- Merchandising
- Seasonal Assortment Planning
- Unit Investment
- Style Mix
- Sales Data
- Open-To-Buy
- Retail Math
- Initial Markup
- Sell-Through
- Markdown Optimization
- Advanced Excel
- Google Sheets
- Ecommerce
- Retail
- Purchase Orders
- Budget Management
- Supply Chain
- In-Season Trading
- Reorders
- Inventory Transfers
- End-Of-Life Management
- Weekly Reporting
- Seasonal Reviews
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Team Coaching