Buyer, Accessories

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🌴 South Carolina – Remote

🌴 South Carolina – Remote

💵 $116k - $148k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Saks

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1924

🛒 Retail

👗 Fashion

🛍️ eCommerce

Retail • Fashion • eCommerce

Saks is a luxury retail company operating Saks Fifth Avenue, an iconic department store chain providing high-end fashion, beauty, and home decor products. They offer a wide range of designer clothing, accessories, shoes, and beauty products for men, women, and children both online and at physical locations. Saks frequently runs promotions and loyalty programs, such as gift card rewards on purchases and exclusive designer sales.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute merchandising strategy and product direction for assigned categories or departments • Curate distinctive, high-quality merchandise aligned with customer needs and preferences • Use competitive intelligence, customer insights, and business analysis to build customer-centric assortments • Partner with Merchandise Planners to develop and execute strategies that maximize business opportunities • Provide input on category and pre-season planning strategy • Build assortment frameworks and allocation strategies based on customer and trend insights • Set product display and flow strategies, including launch dates, full-price selling periods, cross-sell opportunities, and collection considerations • Lead market preparation and attend market to select products • Coordinate buys with brand partners and collaborate on exclusive merchandise • Manage communication regarding in-season brand performance, trending styles, chase opportunities, and order management issues • Review daily performance reports and gather insights on trending products, categories, and brands • Use in-season levers to optimize performance and prepare context for monthly OTB meetings • Negotiate with Brand Partners throughout the season to improve performance through style swaps, capsules, RTVs, matrix expansion, and markdowns • Mentor and train Associate Buyers, Assistant Buyers, and Coordinators

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent retail experience • 5+ years of experience in a buying office • Strong understanding of buying operations and retail strategy • Strong financial, analytical, and strategic planning skills • Expertise in retail math, including markup, margin planning, OTB, WOS, T/O, GMROI, and assortment planning • Demonstrated leadership and team management capabilities • Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills • Ability to build strong internal and vendor relationships • Strong customer focus and results-driven mindset • Ability to manage ambiguity • Strong organization, planning, prioritization, and conflict management skills • Strategic thinking and adaptability to changing business needs • Willingness to travel, including internationally, as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package for all eligible full-time employees, including medical, vision and dental • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Basic life insurance • Supplemental life insurance • Disability insurance • Additional voluntary benefits, such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance • Employee discount • Career advancement opportunities • International travel opportunities as needed