Free People Buyer - Accessories

Free People•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

Free People is seeking a Buyer who would be responsible for creating an exciting and timely product assortment for our accessories business across the retail, direct and wholesale divisions that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the accessories department. The Buyer of Accessories would drive trend, while capitalizing on product expansion through new styles, embellishments and brands.

Requirements

Strong management and leadership skills
Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills
Strong financial and analytical skills
Incredible interpersonal skills
Keen awareness of emerging trends
A demonstrated history of smart risk taking
Able to prioritize tasks and balance the immediate and long term needs of the business

Responsibilities

Managing a team to exceed sales and profit plan for retail, direct and wholesale business
Demonstrating and building collaborative relationships between design, production, merchandising, planning, allocation and sales
Partnering with the planning team to distort buys and ensure in-stock positioning for key items and classifications
Filtering high level, topline selling takeaways to divisional and director with action plan
Understanding the retail and wholesale calendar and ability to maximize efficiency of calendar for retail, direct and wholesale business
Managing, coaching, and developing buying team
Disciplining self and others to understand customer, competition, and ability to think creatively to seek business opportunities and drive the business
Managing the financials of business: OTB, IMU, MD, Closeouts, Inventory and receipt plan
Partnering with design and production to exceed customers’ expectations for brand quality
Partnering with the allocation/planning and sales team to thoroughly understand our store and wholesale customers (department, specialty, international and ecommerce) and develop assortments to best fit their needs
Analyzing assortment mix (private label, wholesale, and market) for retail, director and wholesale business