FP Movement Senior Buyer, Accessories

Senior Buyer

FP Movement is looking for a Senior Buyer to lead the charge for our growing movement accessories business. In this role you will be responsible for leading the strategy to create an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail, direct and wholesale businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department. The Senior Buyer for FP Movement accessories will aid in the concept, creation and trend evolution of our movement accessories category.

Role Responsibilities

• Managing a team to exceed sales and profit plan for retail, direct and wholesale business
• Demonstrating and building collaborative relationships between design, production, merchandising, planning, allocation and sales
• Partnering with the planning team to distort buys and ensure in-stock positioning for key items and classifications
• Filtering high level, topline selling takeaways to divisional and director with action plan
• Understanding the retail and wholesale calendar and ability to maximize efficiency of calendar for retail, direct and wholesale business
• Managing, coaching, and developing buying team
• Disciplining self and others to understand customer, competition, and ability to think creatively to seek business opportunities and drive the business
• Managing the financials of business: OTB, IMU, MD, Closeouts, Inventory and receipt plan
• Partnering with design and production to exceed customers' expectations for brand quality
• Partnering with the allocation/planning and sales team to thoroughly understand our store and wholesale customers (department, specialty, international and ecommerce) and develop assortments to best fit their needs
• Analyzing assortment mix (private label, wholesale, and market) for retail, director and wholesale business

Role Qualifications

• Strong management and leadership skills
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
• Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• Incredible interpersonal skills
• Keen awareness of emerging trends
• A demonstrated history of smart risk taking
• Able to prioritize tasks and balance the immediate and long term needs of the business
• Technical skill proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Must have at least 8+ years of Buying experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Fashion, Business, or a related field.

The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit

EEO Statement

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