SENIOR BUYER, E-COMMERCE

Overview Forever 21 is a fashion industry leader making the latest trends accessible to all while inspiring unique style and confidence. While driving innovation across e-commerce and digital to expand access and convenience, the brand continues to strengthen its positioning as today’s preferred destination for the fashionable consumer. Under the general direction of the Buying Manager or DMM, the Senior Buyer will be responsible for developing, executing, and communicating a financially sound product strategy for procuring merchandise assortments that will be representative of the brand. Create and execute a merchandise assortment plan that supports the financial, merchandising, and marketing objectives set by senior management Participate in weekly open-to-buy meetings with Planning & Allocation and provide technical feedback and analysis to ensure the department achieves financial targets for turn and sell-through goals Create a financially sound product strategy for creating an assortment that targets a wide consumer range Negotiate product quality, purchase quantity, landed cost, and delivery with vendors Procure samples from vendors and in-house designers for style out reviews Partner with the Planning department to create Stock-Keeping Unit (SKU) plans that adhere to the company’s financial strategies in order to have an efficient assortment plan Determine and maintain the Initial Mark-up per category ensuring that the assortments comply with mark-up and retail cost matrix goals established by Management Coordinate with cross-functional partners such as Production, Design, and Trend &Print in order to make sure designs are adoptable, costs are measured, and concepts are clearly defined Train, develop, and mentor the Assistant Buyer, Associate Buyer and /or Buyer to ensure that financial and product goals are met.