Buyer - Home Decor (Backstage)
Macy's Inc. - NY, New York
Job Overview:
Bring your merchandising creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to the best name in retail. Join the start-up of our new off price brand on the ground floor and help us build this new brand while building your personal portfolio.
Success factors include:
- The skillful use of influence and flexibility in approach to negotiations
- A passion and curiosity about the business and our customer
- The ability to thrive in a start-up environment where you can influence the future state of the organization
- The flexibility to take on any task necessary
Key responsibilities include driving inventory turn, sales, margin and growth by understanding your customer, leveraging relationships and reacting with speed and confidence.
Essential Functions:
• Objectively assess assortments with the customer in mind. Ensure customer value and product trends are part of merchandising decisions
• Identify white space opportunities in the off price environment and bring them to market with attention to speed and value
• Analyze the business from an entrepreneurial viewpoint by consistently reaching for the next layer of business to introduce it to the consumer quickly
• Develop strong and trusting vendor relationships by focusing on win-win solutions. Skillfully exercise creativity and flexibility in approach to negiotiations whether celebrating successful agreements or gracefully declining proposals.
• Identify and evaluate key brands to target for sales; position and pitch MOP to acquire new vendors
• Establish and maintain a reputation of credibility, integrity and responsiveness with all internal and external partners
• Lead development of pre-season financial plans at the department, vendor, and class levels. In season, manage liquidity to take advantage of opportunistic purchases to drive business and flex sales plan from one department to another or one vendor to another
• Present brand and/or classification strategies to DMM
• Develop and orchestrate Marketing strategies focused on customer profiles
• Travel as required for
-Competitive shopping
- Markets
- Store visits
- Warehouse to assess and evaluate inventory
• Build and Develop Talent to prepare for next level
• Develop self – attend ongoing professional development and training
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 5 years buying experience which must include off price buying experience at the associate level or above. Home experience preferred
Communication Skills:
• Excellent communication skills
Mathematical Skills:
• Strong financial acumen and superior analytics skills
• Keen understanding of components of gross margin and inventory management to maximize profitability
Reasoning Ability:
• Creative thinker who is willing and able to take calculated risks
• Skillful negotiator who is able to develop win-win solutions to complex business issues. • Adept problem solver who is able to make sound decisions using equal parts intuition and analytics
Physical Demands:
• This position requires frequent travel to market, stores, warehouse and shopping the competition
Other Skills:
• Strong leadership profile, ability and passion for developing talent and honing own skills, ability to thrive in an autonomous environment
This job description is not all inclusive. Macy’s Inc. reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Macy's Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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About Macy's Inc.
Macy's, Inc., with corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York, is one of the nation's premier retailers, with fiscal 2015 sales of $27.079 billion. The company operates about 870 stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico unde... more
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