Head - Buying & Merchandising - Apparel

Head Buying & Merchandising (Apparel)

1. Responsible for the seasonal aggregate forecast,collaborate with buying & merchandising, sales and retail teams to deliver a final adjusted unconstrained sales forecast by month.

2. Review above forecast and identify gaps, define action plan to close gaps.Create the season’s Buying Budget for new & replenishment products for Affiliate B&M team to do a Line Buy.

3. Seasonal Forecast- Review the sales forecast for the season based on the constrained supply plan and identify gaps / action plans

4. Review the Prod Code level forecast Vs Production quantity Vs Bookings to identify order shortages/ excess as the case may be and work with RDP & RSP to change incoming Pos accordingly.
 
5. Monthly Forecast- Collaborate with Buying & Merchandising team, Sales and Retail teams to deliver a final adjusted unconstrained sales forecast by month @ Prod code level;

6. Make adjustments to future months specific causal factors i.e. promotions, price change (mark-downs), phase-out, etc.Manage adjustment for non replenishment products based on supply chain delays / low bookings

7. Review the aggregated product code level forecast to compare against AFP and identify the gaps and highlight the same to SMT to define action plans for making up the difference.

8. Finalize Full year forecast and send the same to (Finance),Inventory Optimization / Joint setting of Annual and quarterly Inventory targets with RDP and affiliate Finance.

8. Prepare monthly “Excess Inventory for re-distribution” report and share with RDP; once export transaction is fixed, complete the transfer operational process.

9. Quarterly Review of Safety stock levels, Size-mix ratio and ABC classification of products with RDP
Half-yearly review of Supplier lead-times with RDP. Replenishment managament.

10.Manage the product phase out process to ensure minimal inventory leftovers

Key Relationships: Regional Demand Planning team, Regional Supply Planning Team, Global Sourcing Team , Affiliate - Retail, Brand, Finance ,Supply Chain & Sales teams.

Incase interested please feel free to mail your cv's to ashutoshj@unisoninternational.net

Candidates from NIFT / pearl / reputed institutions with at least 8 - 10 years of relevant experience in Retail buying & merchandising, OTB planning, number crunching etc fro any premium / Luxury brand need apply to ashutoshj@unisoninternational.net

Contact Person- Mr. Ashutosh Jha

Ph - 0124 - 4565916 / 09868915270.