Associate - Buying & Merchandising (Womens)
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Associate – Buying & Merchandising
Roles And Responsibilities Role: Work closely with Category Manager to drive the business for Women's Wear in the relevant category with focus on growth and increasing market share. Manage relationships with brand partners & establish Myntra as the preferred destination for customers as well as brand partners.
Responsibilities - Intake / OTB management - Monitor inventory situation & plan inwards based on the DOH plan & plan timely RTVs
- Selection – making season level buy plans / assortment plans, based on past performance & growth / revenue targets to ensure that the category is well represented
- Review style level performance based on metrics such as ROS, Sell through, RPI, RGM
- Category visibility planning & interventions – planning banners for respective brands and raising banner requests on time
- Identify gaps in product offerings & subsequently introduce new products / categories / on-board new brands
- Managing pricing – follow up with brands on securing timely discounts and updating the same, control pricing internally as per planned GM / RGM. Working closely on discounting based on profitability requirements.
- Be an effective bridge between brands & internal teams for all communications
- Operational excellence: Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to manage merchandising operations, inbound planning, cataloging & discount monitoring
Qualifications & Experience - Graduate from NIFT or other reputed institution
- 2-4 Years of relevant experience in Apparel buying / planning / merchandising
- Understanding of planning & Inventory management (Understanding of E-comm will help)
- Willingness to learn, innovate, take initiatives
- Strong MS Excel skills & understanding of data analytics
- Customer centric, creative & analytical problem-solving mind-set
- Ability to work as part of a team & collaborate with others
- Should be good at multitasking & time management
- Good interpersonal & negotiation skills
- Preferred NIFT grad or MBA with good business acumen
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