Assistant Buyer, Retail - Jersey City, United States - Kipling

Kipling

Verified Company

Jersey City, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Join the Kipling Family
We are on a mission. To live a vibrant and colorful - go places never been before. Be curious. Dare to live the life we've always wanted. That's our mission.

Well, you may say:
It's just bags. Yes, that may be true. But sometimes it's the simple things that make life easier.

Exploring the world with curiosity. We empower you to go your own way. That's why we inject all our creativity and out-of-the box thinking developing thoughtful designs with a casual coolness. Simply put, we design bags that inspire mobility and lighten your life.

Kipling, founded in 1987, is a leading European lifestyle brand with design-driven products sold in more than 80 countries worldwide.

The product line includes handbags, luggage, backpacks, and accessories.

Retail Assistant Buyer (10-Month Contract)

How You Will Make a Difference

What you will do:

Support the Buying team to ensure seasonal strategies and in season business is executed in order to achieve financial targets.

Focus on the Full Price channel, learning and managing the day to day buying responsibilities, including reporting & analysis, assortment tools and sku counts, and seasonal hindsighting.

Conduct weekly sales analysis and make recommendations for pricing, promotions, and inventory optimization.
Manage receipt reconciliation, create purchase orders, maintain sku definitions, and organize samples.
Work closely with cross-functional partners to ensure a seamless execution of floor sets.

How you will do it:

Immerse yourself in the brand, products, and store environment.
Collaborate with Merchandising, Visual, and Marketing to bring the seasonal assortment to life in store.
Quickly learn about our tools and our process (AS400, Excel, etc.).
Partner with Planning on sales and model stock forecasting trends.
Get to know our customer and our store teams.

What success looks like:

Consistently meets deadlines with excellent communication skills.
Constant learning and adjusting to consumer demand and market trends.
High accuracy and efficient time management skills to manage product lifecycle.
Achieve financial targets including sales, inventory and profit objectives.

Free To Be, Inclusion & Diversity

As a purpose-led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness and authenticity.

We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Skills for Success
4-year Bachelor degree preferred
1-3 years of related industry experience preferred
Foundational knowledge of retail math
Self Starter - must manage up, be action oriented and self sufficient
Team player
- no task is too big or too small on our growing team
Detail driven with strong analytical skills
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required, Power BI a plus
Comfortable juggling and coordinating multiple projects with competing priorities

Detailed job description

Responsibilities:

Manage day-to-day business of the Buying Team and manage product lifecycle of each sku from adoption to complete sell through that will include creating sku and purchase orders in AS400, key promotional changes, and organizing samples.

Run weekly, monthly, and quarterly selling reports and assist in recapping and analyzing Full Price Store's business, making promotion recommendations to improve in season performance and identifying product opportunities and wins.

Build and maintain seasonal assortment tools and sku counts as well as partner with the Buyer in creating a consumer centric assortment for Full Price stores that will meet financial targets with the potential to manage buys independently over time.

Maximize sales and inventory turn by coordinating with Planning and Allocations teams on consolidations and model stock levels to drive continuous positive results.

Influence category assortments by analyzing product performance, customer feedback/data, and consumer trends by market/region and sharing with global merchandising and design team.

Effectively communicate the seasonal message and big ideas to marketing and visual partners to ensure product tells a compelling message in store with signage and windows to support.

Work closely with Visual Partners to support timely execution of each floorset.
Provide seasonal teaching tools to store managers to facilitate high level of product knowledge allowing for successful selling.

Daily/ Weekly Jobs:

Monday style and store selling and midweek style selling.
Update Selling file weekly.
Work closely with Buyer to write a business recap for our business weekly deck.
Ensure NOS skus are at optimal inventory levels.

Promo change
Creation of MD chart
Communication write up for the Klubhouse
Enter markdowns into IP
Update promo calendar
Update database

Floorsets
Ensure samples are pulled for seasonal kick off meeting with visual
Provide ongoing p