Role & responsibilities

- Analyze changing market trends, forecast requirement, identify supplier and buy as per season

•Manages receipt flow and secures timely deliveries by suppliers
- Assists with planning and executing pricing strategies in accordance with fiscal responsibilities, maximizing sales, margin, & inventory management
- Develop seasonal assortment plans to maximize the development of brand, sales and profits for Apparel
- Partner along with planning and operations team in order to maximize results
- Ensuring the servicing of requirement against the order rasied and fullfillment
- Responsible for the seasonal buy budget and buy strategy for Non-Apparel departments
- Optimize sales, inventory levels and gross margin by analyzing, evaluating/recommending, negotiating and executing adjustments as needed, with their business partners (Vendors, Planning & AR)
- Analyze the sell through and suggest for product corrections





•Vendor performance analysis and sorting of active and inactive vendors
- Reverse working of product delivery to store with lead time from order to servicing based on monthly requirement

•Develop overall merchandising concept for the division and transfer concept into right merchandise direction to suit target market.
- Build and leverage relationships with cross-functional teams

•Build and develop the buying team

Preferred candidate profile

Minimum 10 years experience in Fashion Retail Buying

Advanced computer skills (Excel pivot tables/ v-lookups/etc., Word, Internet)

Expert level of knowledge around planning processes, analytical tools, and managing a planning organization

Knowledge of supply chain management demand, inventory, purchasing and delivering plans

Any Bachelor’s Degree

Master's degree will be an additional preference

📌 Merchandise Manager (Apparel) (Chennai)
🏢 Naidu Hall
📍 Chennai