Senior Accessories Buyer - Trend-Driven Growth Lead

Free People; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

PTO

Employee discounts

Retirement savings

Job summary

Free People is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead the FP Movement accessories category across retail, direct, and wholesale channels. You will shape the product assortment, drive sales and profitability, and partner with design, production, planning, and sales to exceed targets.

You will manage a buying team, translate market trends into opportunities, and balance seasonal timing with inventory targets while maintaining brand quality and a customer-focused approach.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of buying experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion, Business, or related field.
• 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.
• Demonstrated history of smart risk taking.
• Able to prioritize tasks and balance the immediate and long term needs of the business.

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 and develop assortments to best fit their needs.
• Analyzing assortment mix (private label, wholesale, and market) for retail, director and wholesale business.

Skills

Leadership

Fast-paced environment

Presentation skills

Negotiation skills

Financial analysis

Interpersonal skills

Emerging trends

Risk-taking

Task prioritization

Buying experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Fashion, Business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Job description

Free People is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead the FP Movement accessories category across retail, direct, and wholesale channels. You will shape the product assortment, drive sales and profitability, and partner with design, production, planning, and sales to exceed targets.

You will manage a buying team, translate market trends into opportunities, and balance seasonal timing with inventory targets while maintaining brand quality and a customer-focused approach.