Buyer - Tailored Clothing, Jos. A. Bank
Tailored Brands, Inc.’s purpose is to help our customers love how they look. We accomplish this by providing a personal, convenient, one-of-a-kind shopping experience with compelling products and world-class service. We help fulfill this mission by providing our employees with an engaging and inclusive workplace focused on teamwork, growth and respect.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Buyer with responsibility for developing product and customer merchandising strategies that drive product category growth to join our Merchandising team in our headquarters in Fremont, CA.
Key Accountabilities:
•Identifies marketing and merchandising trends and ideas, and translates appropriately into realistic merchandise programs
•Ensures overall product assortment meets financial plan targets and addresses consumer needs
•Develops conceptual assortment/ buy plans to capture assortment needs to feed line planning and product development
•Provides direction and input to product development to ensure that specific product attribute requirements are met and supported
•Provides direction and input to merchandise financial plans created by planning team
•Develops merchandising strategy including pricing, promotional pricing and cadence, markdown plans and timing
•Manages business to meet company targets on gross margin, sales, sell through, markdowns, inventory levels, and turn
•Directs merchandise projections and flow schedules to ensure timely and constant flow of merchandise
•Manages creation of POs and correct item/3rd party set-up and attributes
•Monitors in-season performance against plan and directs action for improvement as necessary
•Utilizes end of season analysis provided by planners to modify seasonal strategic, merchandise and assortment plans going forward