Buyer (Womens Apparel)
Eileen Fisher
- Irvington, NY
- $100,000-120,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- A key partner in creating the product strategies and assortments for EILEEN FISHER Direct to Consumer channels
- Review budgets, receipts and SKU plans with the Planning team to ensure the proper product mix is created to meet customer needs and business goals
- Partner closely with the DTC Digital Merchandising and DTC Planning Teams to buy appropriate quantities across the DTC channel as a whole
- Collaborate to suggest product for Windows, Homepages, Emails, Direct Mail and Social
- Responsible for partnering on receipt and SKU plans and adhering to budgets to maintain a healthy Open to Buy
- Analyze and share monthly and seasonal on-order rollups during and after each buy
- Analyze and share weekly and seasonal selling performance for EILEEN FISHER DTC channel and present takeaways on business.
- Review data holistically to understand trends, including traffic, email and site data, CRM and marketing performance, and anecdotal store leader feedback to make sound decisions
- Present DTC Buy as needed to internal teams and store leaders
- Partner with Planning and other teams to assess inventory levels, participate in creating promotional cadence
- Partner with the DTC Planning team on monthly store distros and tiering
- Assist in organizing team workflow, timelines and meetings
- Visit and speak with stores to gain an understanding of the location, space, the customer and develop relationships with store leaders
Bachelors Degree Required or equivalent experience
- 7-10 years of related experience in the retail or wholesale apparel industry
- Leading and creating a positive environment for team
- Highly skilled at creating balanced product assortments
- Ability to synthesize many data points to draw conclusions and easily summarize key takeaways
- Can easily communicate what is driving our success and what to repeat and expand upon
- Ability to think outside the box, creating new product strategies to grow the business
- Excellent analytical and mathematical proficiency with strong business and financial analysis skills
- High level of experience and proficiency in Excel
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Ability to prioritize and handle competing priorities
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- We are authentic
- We thrive in connection
- We trust each other
- We innovate through creativity
- We are committed to the health of the whole
- We are united by purpose
Bachelors Degree Required or equivalent experience
- 7-10 years of related experience in the retail or wholesale apparel industry
- Leading and creating a positive environment for team
- Highly skilled at creating balanced product assortments
- Ability to synthesize many data points to draw conclusions and easily summarize key takeaways
- Can easily communicate what is driving our success and what to repeat and expand upon
- Ability to think outside the box, creating new product strategies to grow the business
- Excellent analytical and mathematical proficiency with strong business and financial analysis skills
- High level of experience and proficiency in Excel
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Ability to prioritize and handle competing priorities
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- We are authentic
- We thrive in connection
- We trust each other
- We innovate through creativity
- We are committed to the health of the whole
- We are united by purpose