Strategic Outlet Buying & Allocation Lead

Tapestry, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Coach, a global fashion house founded in New York, seeks an experienced Leader for the Outlet Handbags Buying & Allocation team. You will drive the strategic vision and execution of buying and allocation strategies for the omni Outlet business, leveraging strong analytical and communication skills to optimize revenue, gross margin, and inventory.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 10 years in Buying or related experience in retail/fashion, demonstrate leadership excellence, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of Buying or related experience in a fast paced, retail/fashion environment.
• Strong leadership and ability to motivate and develop a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to present and recommend strategies and build a business case.
• Experience leveraging AI to drive insights.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic future of business by identifying market trends, assortment opportunities and understanding the customer
• Drive team to maximize omni financial results across revenue, gross margin, and inventory goals through the development of merchandising strategies, store tiering, sales planning and allocation strategies
• Lead the buy process from concept to completion, including partnership in product development, implementation of regional merchandising strategies and financial planning of sales/inventory
• Manage OTB to meet financial targets at the SKU level for sales, inventory & margin with a focus on leading the team to optimize forecast accuracy
• Continuously analyze and reforecast business and implement strategies to ensure plan is achieved, including adjusting product flow and inventory management
• Manage SKU lifecycle from adoption to delete, react to in season sales to determine go forward strategy
• Initiate and generate business analysis to track selling, identify key trends and maximize opportunities in the assortment and inventory to achieve continued growth and profitability
• Influence product assortment by analyzing and sharing current product performance, customer feedback, consumer trends, competitive landscape and local market knowledge to global merchants/design with the goal identifying new opportunities for target customer
• Optimize inventory through leading allocation to maximize inventory ensuring that allocations to stores align with product strategies
• Lead team of 4 in executional excellence through all milestones in the buying and allocation process. Nurture engagement of team with a focus on their personal growth and development
• Partner with Marketing, Ecom, Product Knowledge, Visual Merchandising, Store Operations and Field Team to create synergies among all consumer touch pointsensuring 360 cohesive storytelling
• Partner with field team to solicit qualitative feedback on product, customers, store environments & competition

Skills

Buying & Allocation

Leadership

Analytics

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Job description

Coach, a global fashion house founded in New York, seeks an experienced Leader for the Outlet Handbags Buying & Allocation team. You will drive the strategic vision and execution of buying and allocation strategies for the omni Outlet business, leveraging strong analytical and communication skills to optimize revenue, gross margin, and inventory.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 10 years in Buying or related experience in retail/fashion, demonstrate leadership excellence, and