Product Manager | Buying - International Women's Wear High Fashion Brand - Noida location

Designation: Product Manager - Buying – International High end Women's Wear Fashion Label

Location: Noida, India

Remuneration on offer: 15-18 lacs p.a

Company profile: One of India’s biggest & most well known Retail Market leaders.

Summary of Requisite Skills: 

Keen sense/understanding of buying behaviour & preferences of Indian women consumers of high end everyday fashion, fabrics, seasons, spending behaviour, well seasoned expert in selection of clothing & accessories ranges for women consumers of age groups 15 to 35 years old. Product selection, Cost negotiation and Vendor Management, Margin Achievement, Inventory Management and  Routine Analysis. Responsible for Buying & Selecting stock for stores across India, stock replenishment management, Competitor surveys, etc. 

[Planning will not be a part of the job description, only strictly buying]

Key Responsibilities:

• To deliver a fashion Forward Range of products for Indian retail, in line with Company brand handwriting and market positioning. 
• Responsible for trend interpretation, directing the international team in Australia of India requirements, buying strategy to ensure successful achievement of sales and profit budgets.
• Trend knowledge and direction.
• Team management and development.
• Financial accountability.

Skills:

• Proven track record of high performance in fashion business
• To lead by example and provide support and mentoring to the team.
• Creative talent and high attention to detail.
• In-depth knowledge of local and overseas fashion retail markets.
• Understands the customers and responds effectively to her needs.
• Strong financial and commercial business acumen.
• Ability to coach , develop and lead a team.
• Ability to work under pressure, working to tight timelines
• Ability to work autonomous and collaboratively as a part of a team.
• Confident and engaging communicator with the ability to deliver presentations and influence key stake holder.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Effective planning and organizational skills.

Requisite Experience:

• Expert & seasoned Product knowledge
• Computer literacy and proficiency MS office (EXCEL, OUTLOOK, POWERPOINT & WORD)
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience as a senior buyer role within retail fashion, and preferably International Fashion.

Softskills [Behaviour, attitude, culture fitment, etc]:

• Passion: Love for fashion and enthusiasm for the company brand.
• Maturity in demanding situations.
• Strong work ethic.
• ‘Big Picture’ thinking , contributing to all company objectives.
• Professional presentation.
• Resourceful and resilient.
• Develop and encourage others to deliver results.
• Use personal initiative and can be creative to grow business.
• Honesty and integrity.
• Displaying a ‘can do’ attitude.

KPIs [Key Performance Indicators]

Trend Knowledge and Direction:

• Assess local market trends to give design direction, identify missed opportunity to potentialise sale and profit
• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of market, competitors and customer requirements.

Team management & Development:

• Maximize team performance through effective people management.
• Anticipate and manage change, leading teams through the process.
• Develop skills of the team by identifying individual training needs and motivating and encouraging effective teamwork.
• Provide regular ongoing  feedback  in addition to the annual performance reviews.
• Develop individuals to secure succession.

Financial Accountability:

• Respond to sales and market data to support commercial decisions to direct to your team to maximize profits.
• Generate new ideas to improve sales and profit performance for the business.
• Lead the trading of the department, in collaboration with the planning manager, to optimize profit from stock investment.
• Deliver the strategic direction of the department by ensuring that post seasonal strengths and weaknesses are assessed to enable future like for like growth.
• Strong understanding of financial levels of the business.

Brand Development:

• To provide strategic direction and input to the development of your product areas.
• Plan, enforce and assess key deadlines to buying team with respect to the business priority on a weekly basis
• Awareness of stock flow and forward commitment and sales forecast.

Range Building:

• Drive product pricing strategy to support brand direction
• Ensure your categories deliver innovation , speed to market and calculated risk in new trends
• Ensure range reflects climate needs according to agreed business timing
• Provide ongoing input and recommendation to the HQ product team with respect to all ranges, to ensure company strategy is being translated across all categories.

Requisite skill sets:

• Should be educated in either textile fashion or a retail based enterprise.
• Should be detail oriented and confident.
• Knowledge of MS Excel & MIS Reports.
• Possess strong analytic and presentation skills.

Requisite Personal & Professional Abilities:

• A thought & design leader with exemplary communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate with staff at all levels and work under pressure.
• Ability to utilise case studies, polls, survey group results & personal research findings towards
• impeccable selection & procurement of merchandise.
• Visible decision making ability with execution to conclusion capability.
• Professionally sound, having grown in a highly sophisticated, competitive business environment
• Should be well known & deeply networked in the industry.
• Generating healthy business relationships with leading professionals and corporate houses.

Academic background

A Graduate degree in Arts, Garment Design and Manufacturing, Retail Marketing, Home Science [Textiles/Clothing], etc is preferred. Masters/PG in Marketing, Fashion Technology, Luxury Retail, Design, Merchandising, Apparel technology, Print, Textile, Merchandise Marketing, etc is preferred.

To Apply:
 

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To: neha.asthana@hr-interface.com & retailjobs.hrinterface@gmail.com

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Regards,
Neha Asthana
HR Interface Corporate Services
Recruitment Par Excellence
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