Buying & Merchandising for retail brand based in Mumbai

Stap Management Consultants; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Stap Management Consultants is urgently looking for a Buying & Merchandising professional for a retail brand based in Mumbai. This role involves driving and further building the category across PAN India, requiring experience in range planning, development, and local sourcing.

The ideal candidate will lead product development, manage season deliveries, and support marketing initiatives. Key responsibilities include assortment building, product training for store staff, and conducting seasonal product conferences, ensuring successful operations across retail and distribution channels.

Responsibilities

• Season range planning and assortment building with experience in range development with India factories.
• Lead the product development & buying requirement with Local sourcing team.
• Understand the dynamics of each business – Retail, MBO, Distribution & Ecom.

Job description

Urgently looking for Buying & Merchandising for retail brand based in Mumbai.

Drive and further build the category PAN India.

Responsibilities

• Season range planning and assortment building with experience in range development with India factories
• Candidate needs to possess skills to lead the product development & buying requirement with Local sourcing team
• Understand the dynamics of each business – Retail, MBO, Distribution & Ecom to strengthen the business
• Support in new Product development for key channels / partners
• Sell through & Mark down management
• Agreed GM% deliverables for the category
• Conducting season product conference / partner presentations
• Planning for End of season sale along with Buying Manager
• Ownership of managing season deliveries for the respective category
• Creating season buy forms / assortment building & catalogues for each channel
• Perform periodic in depth analysis w.r.t store performance at region & store grade, category level, gender level, style & size level
• Supporting Marketing calendar and key marketing initiatives for season
• Conducting Product training and building product knowledge within store staff.