Free People Senior Buyer - Intimates

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: • An understanding of the customer’s wants and needs and the ability to identify the appropriate product/trend that will appeal to the customer and exceed their expectations. • The ability to prioritize tasks and the ability to balance the immediate and long term needs of the business. • An understanding of the Free People customer and the shopping experience and that it is the final category edit for the merchandising assortment. The buyer has to possess the ability to identify, gather and assimilate information specific to our customer.