Manager - Buying (Sangria)

Roles and Responsibilities

Roles:
● Responsible to manage business portfolio for business.
● A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business – Analytics, financial planning, range planning, sourcing and managing people – vendors & team.

Responsibilities:

● Responsible to optimize sales for a group of products

o Revenue
o Margins
o Growth of categories

● Range Planning

o Product-Brand mapping
o Product range planning for the category Planning
o Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability
o Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
o Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis

● Option planning

o OTB working along with the central planning team

● Inventory Management

o Planning for the inventory flow for entire category

● Team Management

o Leading a team of designer, factory operations and sourcing

● Vendor Management

o Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that
o Vendor-Product Mapping
o Building fabric base, printing base network and vendor base

● Supply Chain

o Building processes to ensure the production happens within 30 days from concept to
delivery Collaborative Partnership
o Liasoning with all the brands
o Co-ordinating with sales and marketing for the growth of category

Qualifications & Experience
● 4-6 years of experience with Fashion Background.
● Familiarity with category management for relevant category.
● Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
● Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
● Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.