Merchandiser / Buyer

• Analyse historical sales data to identify customers’ buying behaviors, products selling pace, gather feedback from Operations team, and screen fashion markets trends to decide the new buying orders for each brand.
• Provide an OTB (order to buy) proposal for senior management and decide the needed buying budget per brand.
• Adhere to the seasonal buying time plan to submit the PO requests at the franchises’/ vendors’ end.
• Align with the supply chain function for related shipping conditions and deliver a detailed complete shipment plan.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships with franchise and vendors preserving a strong performance as screened by the franchise appraisal.
• Negotiate with franchise/ vendors the pricing status, collection quality and design feedback, quantities and time scale.
• Review brand performance with franchise and share the needed reports/ data.
• Keep an updated records of pricing at competitors and the similar products market.
• Accurately define, price and distribute the delivered shipment products across the retail stores and upload the products data over the related systems.
• Monitor products sell through and align with operations, visual merchandising and warehouse to motivate stock movement and sales levels.
• Plan and develop a merchandising strategy that meet customer expectations and leverage organizational objectives.
• Manage department staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures inside the team and across the organization and participate in the department hiring and training processes.

job requirements

3 to 5 years

Bachelor's Degree at least

Retail