Buyer, New & Replenishment

Job Summary

TheBuyer New & Replenishmentowns the strategy and execution of both newness and replenishment across multiple classes delivering a balanced trend-right customer-right assortment that consistently meets sales margin inventory and in-stock goals. This role blends fashion intuition with analytical rigor to develop and execute assortments with strong price-value and competitive positioning.

Partnering cross-functionally and with vendors the Buyer analyzes sales customer insights and market trends toidentifyopportunities and bring assortments to drive volume throughtimelyreorders and chase decisions actively managing core and reorder SKUs using stock-to-sales sell-through seasonal trends and onsite performance to maximize turns profitability and minimize risk.

The ideal candidate is fashion-curious highly analytical and results-driven with a passion for owning product from concept through replenishment.

Schedule:This is a hybrid role working out of our Los Angeles CA office. The candidate is expected to be on-site on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday with flexibility to come in on Monday or Friday as needed.

WhatYoullDo

• Own the end-to-end assortment strategy for assigned classes including assortment architecture line plans and product roadmaps for both in-house development and third-party brands.

• Curate a trend-relevant premium-yet-accessible assortment aligned to Lulus customer profiles delivering strong price-value conversion and full-price sell-through.

• Analyze sales inventory and customer demand toanticipateneeds forecast inventory levels and drive reorder decisions for key and core items.

• Develop and execute seasonal receipt plans and inventory strategies to support revenue margin andinventoryturntargets.

• Partner closely with Planning to manage Open-to-Buy (OTB) track KPIs and ensure alignment to financial and strategicobjectives.

• Manage inventory health through ongoing analysis informed decision-making around reorders markdowns and risk mitigation.

• Track and analyze bestandworstperforming styles colors and fabrics to inform future assortment and replenishment strategies.

• Identifyassortmentopportunitiesand ideate strategies to evolve categories and capture new growth opportunities.

• Build andmaintainstrong cross-functional partnerships with Development Merchandising Production Planning and Marketing to ensure cohesive execution.

• Establish and manage strong vendor relationships including sourcing new vendors reviewing samples and negotiating quality cost quantity and delivery.

WhatYoullNeed

• Bachelors degreein a related field or equivalent relevant experience.

• 4years of retail buying experience.

• Experience in Buying Womens Apparel and/or Accessories.

• Proventrack recordof delivering sales margin and inventory KPIs withdemonstratedimpact on category growth.

• Strong business and analytical acumen including advanced retail math and Excel skills (pivot tables VLOOKUPs SUMIFS).

• Deep understanding of the Lulus brand customer and fast-fashion trend landscape.

• Confident decision-maker with a balance of creative instinct and data-driven judgment.

• Strong negotiation skills and experience managing vendor relationships.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

• Highly organized detail-oriented and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight timelines.

• Solution-oriented self-motivated and comfortable working independently while contributing to a collaborative team culture.

Wereready tomeetyou! Come help us achieve our ambitious goals!

At Lulus we believe our people are our greatestassetand weseekto structure competitive compensation offers to ensure that we can attract andretainthe best talent. Our job postings include an annual base salary range for the role. The stated base salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on several factors including the selected candidates educational and professional experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the selection process. Base salary is a part of a total compensation package which depending on the position may also include an annual bonus and other benefit programs.