The North Face: Buyer, Outlet (Americas)

The North Face • Denver, CO

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About The Position

The Outlet Buyer is responsible for building and executing strategic seasonal buys that deliver on brand priorities, outlet channel initiatives and financial targets. This role plays a critical part in driving sales and profitability through demand forecasting, buy generation, and margin management, while ensuring the right balance of made-for-outlet product and excess inventory. The Buyer partners closely with Merchandising, Planning, and Supply Chain to deliver compelling assortments that resonate with the outlet customer and align to pre-season financial targets. This role requires strong analytical skills, trend awareness, strategic capabilities to drive sales and profitability and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience and professional achievements
• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising, Business, Marketing, or related field
• Buying experience in footwear, apparel and/or fashion retail
• Strong analytical, communication and problem solving skills
• Proficiency in Excel
• Deep understanding of retail math, consumer behavior, and analyzing data trends

Nice To Haves

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Passion for fashion and trend forecasting

Responsibilities

• Drive buy generation based on target sales and inventory levels (sell-through goals), ensuring alignment with the merchandise financial plan across sales, discount, margin and sell-through
• Analyze market trends, customer preferences and historical sales data to forecast demand at style-color, while optimizing inventory flow. Improve forecast accuracy through end-to-end forecast management.
• Balance short-term excess opportunities with long-term made-for-outlet product
• Collaborate closely with Merchandising to ensure buy delivers the Channel product priorities and Merchant assortment strategy.
• Track product performance and adjust buying strategies to maximize sales and minimize markdowns.
• Line Plan analysis and support, providing analytical view and strategic targets to merchandising by evaluating the line to ensure it meets productivity goals, sales objectives and brand/regional growth strategies.
• Lead Buy Review meetings to share each season's key product strategies, revenue and investments with store, visual, and marketing partners.

Benefits

• Annual incentive plan
• Sales incentive
• Commission potential

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees