A leading retail company in Cape Town is urgently seeking the expertise of an experienced Menswear Buyer to join their team of professionals.
Responsibilities
- Conduct market research and trend analysis
- Maintain professional relationships with the Brand Principal manufacturers and suppliers
- Develop category pricing and merchandise strategies to increase market share and profitability
- Ensure that ranges and product strategies support all sales channels wholesale ecommerce and retail strategies. Provide input/support/feedback to all channels
- Collaborate with Planning Marketing Operations Sales and Production regarding the of the seasonal Product/Sales plan and achieve agreed set revenue & profit targets
- Drive sales performance by contributing to promotional activities on products and price to meet the set department sales and margin targets
- Negotiate Supplier trade terms costs and deliveries while sourcing product from international and local manufacturing opportunities
- Actively cultivate and develop vendor partnerships to ensure optimize performance and ontimeinfull seasonal product launches
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience as a Buyer within a retail or fashion environment
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Fashion Design or Product Development
If you meet the above requirements and want to make a careerchanging move apply today by either filling in the online application form or emailing your CV to emailprotected
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Please note that correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates for this position. Should you not hear from us within 3 days please consider your application unsuccessful.