The North Face
Associate Buyer
| company: | The North Face |
| job title: | Associate Buyer |
| location: | Sydney CBD |
| work type: | Full-time |
| level: | Mid-level |
Role Description
This position build seasonal buying plans for ANZ DTC channel to support DTC financial target. Collaborate closely with merchandising to ensure the buy delivers the merchandiser’s assortment strategy. This position partners with Regional Merchant Team, Local TNF ANZ sales team and TA Planning team, linking the buy strategy with product strategy and market demand to ensure the buy plan is supportive to deliver the financial target.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with Regional Merchant to identify local market-specific seasonal opportunities and priorities based on consumer and industry trends across product categories
- Work with Regional merchant on the aligned DTC assortment Plan and launch plan (CRD date).
- Ensure Product delivery phasing matching with Demand, product arrivals fulfill both seasonality relevancy, consumer demand and balanced inventory supply.
- Provide demand Forecast based on GTM milestones
- Align the DTC Seasonal Open to Buy with TA Planning team, both LLT and SLT products.
- Plan and Generate buy depth for all product lines, 800-1000 SKU per season across all category, all territory, towards OTB budget
- Responsible for DTC all SCO size breakdown
- Responsible for Consolidate DTC and WS order, and upload into system
- Support in-season sell through management and insights on what’s working. Not working, and advice on action plans
- Close partnership with TA planning on promotion decisions
- Close partnership with TA planning on inventory level, free-to-sell inventory
KEY SKILLS
- Business acumen
- Customer focus
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Influence
- Driving for results
- Building strategic work relationships
- Knowledge and intuition of outdoor, TNF brand
- Retail and product expertise in the key markets: ANZ
- Working knowledge of a P&L
- Strong understanding of customer needs
- Ability to identify fashion trends
- Strong organizational, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent presentation, communication and influencing skills
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
- Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior
- Flexibility to adapt to the changing trends of the business requirements
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
- Solid skills in coaching and developing teams for future development
- Minimum Degree Held: Bachelor
- Minimum 3-5 years or above in retail industry
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