Free People Buyer - Accessories

Free People; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Employee discounts

PTO

Retirement savings

Job summary

Free People is seeking a Buyer for Accessories to craft a timely and exciting product assortment across retail, direct, and wholesale channels. You will drive trend, manage OTB, and collaborate with design, production, and planning to maximize sales and profit.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic buying skills, and the ability to optimize inventory across store fleets and ecommerce. You will lead a buying team, shape brand quality, and respond to market opportunities with creative,

Qualifications

• Strong management and leadership skills required.
• Excellent presentation, communication and negotiation abilities.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with cross-functional collaboration.
• Keen awareness of emerging fashion and accessory trends.
• History of smart risk taking to drive business growth.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and balance immediate and long-term needs.

Responsibilities

• Managing a team to exceed sales and profit plan for retail, direct and wholesale.
• Collaborating with design, production, merchandising, planning, allocation and sales.
• Partnering with planning to optimize buys and in-stock positioning.
• Translating topline insights into actionable plans for directors.
• Maximizing efficiency of retail calendar for multiple channels.
• Coaching and developing the buying team.
• Guiding decisions to meet customer, competition and opportunity needs.
• Overseeing OTB, IMU, MD, closeouts, inventory and receipts.
• Partnering with design/production to exceed brand quality expectations.
• Aligning assortments with store/wholesale customers' needs.
• Analyzing mix of private label, wholesale, and market assortments.

Skills

Management skills

Leadership

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Financial analysis

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Trend awareness

Risk taking

Prioritization

Job description

Role Summary

Free People is seeking a Buyer who would be responsible for creating an exciting and timely product assortment for our accessories business across the retail, direct and wholesale divisons that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the accessories department. The Buyer of Accessories would drive trend, while capitalizing on product expansion through new styles, embellishments and brands.

Role 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

Role Qualifications

• 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

The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.