Associate Director - Buying & Merchandising

Roles:

• Responsible to manage the buying portfolio for NEXT (Men, Women, Kids, Innerwear) & other International Brands. This would involve buying for both Online and Offline Stores
• A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business including Analytics, financial planning, range planning and managing direct and functional teams
• Responsible for Business Growth & Profitability (topline, bottomline) for the portfolio including Inventory Planning, Assortment and directly managing the Buying function while working functionally with Sourcing, Design, Planning, Business Finance & Marketing teams.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to optimize sales for the portfolio including
• Revenue
• Margins
• Growth of categories
• Working with Operations team of Offline and CDM team for Online Sales
• Range Planning (Assortment)
• Product-Brand mapping
• Product range planning for the category Planning
• Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability
• Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
• Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis
• Option planning
• OTB working along with the central planning team
• Inventory Management
• Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
• Team Management
• Leading a team of buyers to manage the Apparel buying
• Supply Chain
• Enabling & building an optimal supply chain
• Co-ordinating with all functional teams to ensure and deliver Business Growth & margins

Qualifications & Experience

• 13-17 years of experience with Apparel Buying Background
• Experience as a mix of online & offline would be a must
• Product Selection experience for Western Womenswear/ Menswear/ Kidswear categories
• Excellent with numbers and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
• Strong communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with Senior stakeholders, peers & juniors
• Strong team building & team management skills