Senior Buyer – Men’s Wear - Reputed Retail Giant, Mumbai location

Designation: Senior Buyer – Men’s Wear

Location: Mumbai. Maharashtra, India

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

Summary of Requisite Skills: Range Planning, Product selection, Cost negotiation and Vendor Mgmt, Budget Allocation, Margin Achievement, Inventory Management and  Routine Analysis. Responsible for Buying & Selecting catalogues for seasons, stock replenishment management, Sales & Promotion planning based on location, budgeting and analysis, case studies, competitor surveys, etc. 

Routine:

• Trend forecasting, planning merchandise for the upcoming seasons, regular co-ordination with designers.
• Establishing relations with national buyers & dealing with vendors & suppliers for profitable  product merchandising.
• Ensuring budgets / targets are realistic and sufficient product is procured at a realistic retail price to maximize profit.
• Effectively planning sales stocks and gross profit margin, range building and procuring a suitable range of product.
• Constantly reviewing the supplier base
• Regularly reviewing the competition
• Regularly visiting suppliers would be necessary to agree styling structure, fabrics, etc. for all products.
• Responsible for arranging and presenting relevant ranges of products as and when required.
• Required to either instigate or support in-store promotions.
• Responsible for arranging and presenting relevant ranges of products as and when required.
• Conducting store visits to review product and store layout and to facilitate improvement in both.
• Actively involved in product knowledge training for store staff as and when required.
• Ensuring that relevant action is taken to clear slow moving merchandise and repeat contracts are placed for fast moving lines.

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
• Team player able to deal with stressful situations

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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