FP Movement Senior Buyer, Accessories

Urban Outfitters•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

FP Movement is looking for a Senior Buyer to lead the charge for our growing movement accessories business. In this role you will be responsible for leading the strategy to create an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail, direct and wholesale businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department. The Senior Buyer for FP Movement accessories will aid in the concept, creation and trend evolution of our movement accessories category.

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
Technical skill proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
Must have at least 8+ years of Buying experience.
Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion, Business, or a related field.

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