Category Buyer (Retail-Sports)

Ultiwiseconsult; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion consultancy in Dubai is looking for an experienced Fashion Buyer to drive buying activities aligned with brand strategies. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years in fashion, preferably within the luxury sector. Key responsibilities include managing supplier relationships, developing product assortments, and overseeing the buying calendar. This role emphasizes innovation in product selection and market awareness. It's an exciting opportunity to shape the seasonal product offering and optimize performance.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in fashion buying.
• Open to candidates from various nationalities.
• Must have experience in luxury fashion.

Responsibilities

• Carry out buying activities as per brand plans.
• Maintain supplier relationships and monitor contract adherence.
• Develop assortments and investment plans.
• Negotiate with suppliers on pricing and terms.
• Manage OTB planning and seasonal strategies.

Skills

Fashion background

Luxury fashion industry experience

Job description

Job Description

Designation: Fashion Buyer

Exp: 5-7 years

Salary: Open

Gender: Open

Nationality: Open

Qualifications

• Must be from Fashion background.
• Prefer to have candidates from same luxury fashion industry.
• Salary is open can be negotiated and offered to the right candidates.

Responsibilities

• Carry out buying activities in-line with the brand buying plans.
• Maintain profitable relationships with existing suppliers and monitor the adherence to the contract terms.
• Drive the seasonal strategies in line with the brand positioning to formulate Gross Margin Plan.
• Develop a fine tuned assortment and investment plan.
• Create the sourcing development plan and action the critical path to deliver timely.
• Negotiate with new suppliers on product pricing, payment terms, cost of freight, provision of training, and the extent of their involvement in advertising and promotions, to decide on placing a purchase order with the supplier for the concerned product.
• OTB Planning.
• Manage OTB in tandem with the planning counterpart.
• Deliver the seasonal business strategy by monitoring and impacting the critical path, range building and product selection.
• Prepare and manage the buying calendar.
• Formulate seasonal product focus plan with Marketing and VM to drive key product initiatives.
• Focus on holding current business and build new categories.
• Conducting customer focus groups and competitive shopping Performance and Operations.
• Analysis and reporting of weekly sales performance at style, range, category and business unit level against range plan. Take in season action to revise production flows and maximize sales.
• Manage TNA plans.
• Implement the buying calendar for timely seasonal analysis and range build.
• Perform regular competitor surveys to identify product gaps, influence lessons learnt and range plans.
• Manage range and product hierarchy and create the seasonal phasing plan.
• Responsible for the ‘The Look’ for the season. Influence product selection, in-store VM as per guidelines and layout planning.
• Keep abreast of market trends and awareness of competitor activities.
• Manage the product training of staff to ensure up-to-date knowledge. Prepare regular trends training and deliver to the business units.
• Review buying feedback reports and provide recommendations to General Manager as to buying strategy for a respective brand/collection.