Roles:
- Responsible to manage the buying portfolio for NEXT (Men, Women, Kids, Innerwear) & other International Brands. This would involve buying for both Online and Offline Stores
- A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business including Analytics, financial planning, range planning and managing direct and functional teams
- Responsible for Business Growth & Profitability (topline, bottomline) for the portfolio including Inventory Planning, Assortment and directly managing the Buying function while working functionally with Sourcing, Design, Planning, Business Finance & Marketing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to optimize sales for the portfolio including
- Revenue
- Margins
- Growth of categories
- Working with Operations team of Offline and CDM team for Online Sales
- Range Planning (Assortment)
- Product-Brand mapping
- Product range planning for the category Planning
- Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability
- Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
- Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis
- Option planning
- OTB working along with the central planning team
- Inventory Management
- Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
- Team Management
- Leading a team of buyers to manage the Apparel buying
- Supply Chain
- Enabling & building an optimal supply chain
- Co-ordinating with all functional teams to ensure and deliver Business Growth & margins
Qualifications & Experience
- 13-17 years of experience with Apparel Buying Background
- Experience as a mix of online & offline would be a must
- Product Selection experience for Western Womenswear/ Menswear/ Kidswear categories
- Excellent with numbers and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
- Strong communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with Senior stakeholders, peers & juniors
- Strong team building & team management skills
