FP Movement Assistant Buyer - Accessories

Free People•Philadelphia, PA

11d

About The Position

FP Movement is looking for an Assistant Buyer to work within our accessories category who is responsible for working with the buying team and creating an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail and direct businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department.

Requirements

Minimum of one year of experience in retail buying
Ability to build and maintain productive partnerships and demonstrate strong listening, oral, and written communication skills
Strong organization and prioritizing skills
Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
Detail oriented
Creative thinker
Team player
Proficient in Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint

Responsibilities

Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the buyer on all necessary tasks
Ownership of buying a product class within the buying area
The ability to conceptually plan assortments that meet financial objectives
Delegating and directing the daily activities of the assistants and provide direction to the team
Prioritizing tasks and balancing the immediate and long term needs of the business
Researching and executing development of product in the marketplace
Personnel skills to work well with cross functional partners and team to achieve plans
Working closely with planning to understand financial indicators to react and drive business
Working with the buyer to learn to determine the overall mix of market and private label product for each buying area to ensure the final mix is ultimately customer oriented
Working with buyer to place buys with conviction
Learning from buying mistakes and applying those learnings to future buys
Vocalizing opinions proactively in cross functional or larger merchant meetings
Managing the flow of merchandise
Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders to ensure timely delivery
Communicating late deliveries to the buying team
Setting up new vendors and send them routing guides and pre-ticketing information
Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams
Assisting the buying team to proof catalog copy
Identifying photos on the web to be reshot to drive sales