Buyer - Handbags / Lifestyle Bags

About the Role

As Buyer you will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet sub-category goals. You will be accountable for leading a merchandising team and cross-functional sub-category team for end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary Brands. As a key partner to Design, you will own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.

What You’ll Do

• Incorporate customer insights, competition and category trends to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy and respond to in-season business trends

• Serve as the customer and competitive expert for product, brand and category

• Communicate overarching omni-merchandising vision to category cross-functional teams

• Lead localization product strategy

• Curate consumer, trend and climate-appropriate product assortments

• Operate as a key Design partner to create customer, business and brand-relevant product offerings

• Visit relevant markets and regions to gather product and consumer information, ideate future product strategies and establish business relationships

• Partner with Marketing team to develop sub-category marketing strategies, identify key merchandise stories, plan the timing of marketing campaigns and align on brand-consumer insights

• Partner with omnichannel experience teams to ensure product stories come to life in-store and digitally

• Lead and develop your team, identifying and building best-in-class talent

• Drive overall team engagement

• Meet KPIs including Sales performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance, Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management

• Support and execute the team vision, set clear objectives, assign and direct work, manage performance, and maintain open communications to create an effective work environment

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Exceptional product acumen and balanced ability to lead product creation and select relevant product

• Catalyst of change with a growth mindset

• Strong sense of curiosity, agility, urgency and resiliency

• Outstanding communication and presentation skills

• Strong collaboration and influence skills to build long-term strategic partnerships

• Passion and eye for product and customer obsession

• Ability to develop top talent and highly engaged teams