Buying Manager Mr Price

Overview

To offer our customer mass market-led fashionable, category and item dominant assortments of the wanted items for the season at great value on an ELDP (Every Day Low Prices) basis, with a focus on future to be in-house design-led, driven by current trade influences.

Responsibilities

• Current Trade
• Provide guidance, support and oversight to buyers with regards to their weekly management of all current trade buying activities and action plans including critical marketing deadlines and the weekly performance of items, subcategories and categories.
• As a team communicate a current trade report for the senior executives, as well as strategic overviews of the previous month’s trade required for board reports.
• Analyse the RLC monthly; monitor growth targets against strategic intent and initiate proactive interventions as needed.
• Assess sales and order impacts and provide appropriate guidance regarding action plans.
• Facilitate competitive shops and store visits and ensure that action plans incorporate appropriate trading responses.
• Post-Mortem & Seasonal Strategy :
• Set and drive future brand product calls and vision based on a thorough understanding of historical brand performance and future brand strategy within the bigger picture of gender and company strategy.
• Oversee as a team, the Compshop process and gather pertinent PM insights from other functional areas including Resource, Trend and support departments.
• Conduct an in-depth and relevant brand product performance analysis (including Quality and Supplier performance – if applicable) and compile a Post Mortem document and summary outlining key learnings, business implications and strategic insights.
• Present the Post Mortem to Merchant Executives and senior business leadership identifying critical gaps and opportunities for Brand growth.
• Formulate a sub-category strategy that forms the basis of the seasonal assortment framework, ensuring item dominance and clarity of offer for our customer, incorporating trend and Post Mortem learns for the foundation of this strategy.
• Formulate a seasonal Supplier strategy with your team, inclusive of the resource department that is well considered, and risk-balanced, allowing for an agile, highly reactive strategy whereby the golden rule forms the basis of the supplier partnership.
• Identify key tests and new fabric and develop samples for Strategy and establish costing with Resource including all FOB cost factors.
• Compile a Strategy Brand summary ensuring alignment and input from Trend, VM and Resource.
• Present to Executives and Business leadership providing a clear, detailed rationale which reference market conditions, Product and KPI’s.

Assortment & Review

Leadership & Process Management

Travel

Travel locally and abroad to assess current market trends and provide detailed feedback accordingly.

Qualifications

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