Buying Manager

Buying Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Market Interactions :

- Regularly interact and visit the stores to gather first hand customer response to the merchandise offering - style, quality, display & pricing

- Observe customer's purchase behaviour to understand future product development / styling needs and pricing decisions

- Interact directly with store teams to handle queries and objections, training store teams on Product

- Interact with MRHs on specifics to help them achieve their target, faster growth

Category Planning & Management :

- Support Category Head in Product range planning and buying by identifying existing and new business opportunities

- Develop and implement the annual calendar for design, range launches, promotions, stock rationalization and discount

- Ensure timely approvals & placement of orders to ensure timely deliveries

- Drive the pricing, marketing and promotions of the category's products in order to make them as visible, accessible, and appealing to customers

- Innovate for targeting new customer segment, increasing sales and rationalizing costs

- Customize product mixes for regional preferences

- Create and maintain workflows, WIP, Time and Action plan for the category

- Provide communication briefs addressing category requirement

- Review code excel as per CPA guidelines

- Maintain costing sheets

- Ensure maintenance of accurately filled Product order sheets

Vendor Management:

- Source, develop and maintain a productive relationship with vendors (Fabric and Garment) that is mutually beneficial to the company and artisans

- Deploy orders to DP vendors judiciously and create an approved list of nominated vendors with SCM