Buyer - Handbags / Lifestyle Bags

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 #J-18808-Ljbffr FashionUnited