Assoc Buyer

Tailored Brands • Dublin, CA

7d • $87,797 - $95,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Buyer to join our Merchandising team. This individual will be responsible for identifying, executing, and communicating long term and seasonal merchandise strategies that drive product category growth through the development of assortment plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, other related field
• 5+ years’ merchandising experience.
• Experience in buying Men’s Apparel preferred
• Sound analytical, financial, strategic and problem-solving skills
• Superior communication and organization skills
• High level of initiative and ability to execute independently with minimal direction
• Ability to work within a collaborative and dynamic team environment with diverse groups of people
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Domestic travel required

Responsibilities

• Identifies marketing and merchandising trends and ideas, and translates appropriately into realistic merchandise programs
• Ensures overall product assortment meets financial plan targets and addresses consumer needs
• Owns oversight of buying for one category end-to-end
• Develops conceptual assortment/ buy plans to capture assortment needs to feed line planning and product development
• Provides direction and input to product development to ensure that specific product attribute requirements are met and supported
• Develops merchandising strategy including pricing, promotional pricing and cadence, markdown plans and timing
• Manages business to meet company targets on gross margin, sales, sell through, markdowns, inventory levels, and turn
• Directs merchandise projections and flow schedules to ensure timely and constant flow of merchandise
• Manages creation of POs and correct item/3rd party set-up and attributes
• Monitors in-season performance against plan and directs action for improvement as necessary
• Utilizes end of season analysis provided by planners to modify seasonal strategic, merchandise and assortment plans going forward

Benefits

• healthcare including medical, dental and vision
• retirement savings (401k with a company match)
• income protection programs such as life, accident and disability insurance
• paid time off for sick leave, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, and holidays
• wellbeing program
• commuter
• adoption assistance
• education assistance
• legal services
• employee merchandise discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level