Associate Buyer, Retail

Job Title: Associate Buyer, Retail
Location: New York, NY

Primary Purpose: Strategic, operational Omni channel Associate for North America Retail focusing on Women's Lifestyle categories. Key role in influencing with Buying, Allocation and Global Merchandise Planning.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy/Product
- Help build strategies to drive lifestyle business in NA, identifying key growth opportunities based on analytics ofproduct performance, customer feedback, consumer trend, competitive landscape and local market knowledge
- Provide direction to NY Global Merchandising team to develop product ideas that support customer needs for your market.
- Partner with Marketing, Product Knowledge, Visual Merchandising and Store Operations teams to create synergies among all consumer touch points
- Partner with field team to solicit qualitative feedback on product, customers, store environments & competition
Business Analysis
- Run and create weekly selling reports, customer analytics, and store visits, -- generating actions to maximize business opportunities
- Partner with GMP to drive OTB to meet financial targets and productivity metrics at the SKU level for performance, sales, inventory, receipt and margin goals
- Partner with Global Merchandising Planning to drive quarterly buys to meet financial targets and maximize North America opportunities
- Build and maintain assortment tools and sku counts
- Partner with Global Merchandise Planning to help Manage SKU lifecycle from adoption to delete, react to in season sales to determine go forward strategy

Marketing
- Partner with Marketing, Global Merchandise Planning, and Ecom to influence monthly product features and big ideas - translate to Marketing and Web in order to drive content across customer touchpoints
- Partner closely with Marketing team to determine events and sales promotion activities that support product investments
- Provide product knowledge for Field Service Training to present to accounts and shop staff

The accomplished individual will possess...
- BA or BS degree preferred
- 2-4 years of Buying and/or Planning experience required
- Strong product sensibility
- Advanced working knowledge of Excel required
- Advanced working knowledge of planning systems
- Strong strategic thinking and outstanding analytical/quantitative skills
- Excellent team working skills with the ability to manage cross-functional relationships across multiple levels; must work collaboratively to drive sales results
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Highly organized and proactive with a strong attention to detail and accuracy

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others:Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
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