Manager -Buyer, Van Heusen

PeopleStrong; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Madura Fashion and Lifestyle seeks a Merchandise Buyer/Planner to create a balanced assortment for retail stores, aligning design, price and display with brand image. The role involves regional store allocations, show-floor VM coordination, and season-specific strategic planning to optimize sell‑through.

The candidate will oversee category depth, market intelligence, and training across teams, ensuring timely launches and alignment with the business plan for multiple brands and outlets.

Qualifications

• To create a balanced merchandise assortment for retail stores based on consumer preference and brand image.
• Design selection, price grid, styling grid, and option plan to maximize full price sell-through at stores.
• Major challenges include selecting correct merch grid and coordinating store layouts and VM briefs.

Responsibilities

• Merchandise assortment plan for all stores; create buying plan per category and set ARP targets.
• Monthly target setting per category and performance tracking (Target vs achievement).
• Maintain ideal stock cover; monitor dormancy and pullbacks within norms; generate sell-through reports.
• Plan stock and allocation by store and size; track dispatches vs allocation.

Skills

Post Graduate Pgm. in Mgmt.

Education

Post Graduate Pgm. in Mgmt.

Job description

BUSINESS_UNIT-1 Madura Fashion and Lifestyle

BUSINESS_UNIT-2 Van Heusen

BUSINESS_UNIT-3 Van Heusen

DEPARTMENT-1 Buying & Merchandising

Country India

Function Buying and Merchandizing

Skills

Skill

Post Graduate Pgm. in Mgmt.

CERTIFICATION

Job Description

Job Purpose

To create a balanced merchandise assortment for retail stores based on consumer preference and brand image. The ideal merchandise mix for retail stores based on design selection, price grid, styling grid, and option plan should aim at maximizing full price sell-through at stores.

Similar to JDs,
Major challenges
1. Getting the correct merch grid for each store across categories.
2. Store Layout :- New stores – ensuring accurate allocation of stocks as per the store layout and business plan.
3. Store VM Brief - Coordinate with VM and ensure the store display and merchandize highlighting the need Buying to create season look for different regions and store sizes.
4. Buying during the trade shows across all categories and all brands
5. Store & Market visits on regular basis.
6. Category specific event management
7. Season Launch training for all stores – Region wise and multiple categories as per plan

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1 Merchandise assortment plan for all stores Create appropriate buying plan for assigned category as per Sales targets
Set ARP targets for product categories
Create Option plan and conduct depth analysis
Formulate Stock to Sale plan for a season – EOM / BOM
OTB calculation
Create appropriate buying plan
Creating/Buying Flash Line as per the current trends for A+ Stores

KRA2 Monthly Target setting for each category Breaking up of Monthly targets into product category
Target Vs achievement
Merchandise plan report
Product performance Lk2Lk

KRA3 Inventory Mgmt Ensure Ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained
Dormancy within specified norms
Pullback within specified norms
Sell thru reports on Excel for Week1, week2 sales
Photo Sell Through Report

KRA4 Stock & sale plan Product category wise dispatch plan
Planned Vs actual
Allocation plan for each store as per dispatch plan and size wise analysis
Tracking allocation vs actual dispatches

KRA5 Market Intelligence New launches (competition product / window / schemes)
Competition Mapping
Training (Merchandise, Product & VM related)
Estimation of market, product & design trends

KRA6 Core Business Contribution Monitoring to enhance the category contribution % of total business of LTL basis
Identifying new designs to be added to this category

KRA7 Range Architecture to Product Providing Range architecture for a specific season to product and design. With Category wise option grid with learning from past seasons and from market forecasting

KRA8 Integrated Go To Market (IGTM) Planning for a successful IGTM story along with VM and design
Dressing up one key store for the look
Roll – out across stores

KRA9 Integration with space planning Working in close co-ordination with retail planner to closely monitor returns from space allocated