DD Buying & Merchandising

Roles: 

• Responsible to manage business portfolio for Apparels (Women's & kids)
• A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of  Demand planning, business –Analytics, financial planning, range planning, sourcing and managing people – vendors & team. 

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible to optimize sales for a group of products 
• Revenue 
• Margins 
• Growth of categories 
• Range Planning 
• 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 
• Vendor Management 
• Responsible for managing vendors and building the network to ensure that ● Vendor-Product Mapping 
• Developing MP vendor-base for the category. 

Qualifications & Experience 

• 7+ years of experience with Fashion Background.  
• Team management 
• 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.