Manager, Buying (TNF)
VF Corporation View all jobs
- Henderson, NV Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identifying CN market-specific seasonal opportunities and priorities based on consumer and industry trends across product categories
- Building the seasonal assortment and buy plans (including inline, SMU, QT, MFO, energy) to deliver the financial budget, and address on local market & consumer needs
- Fully implementation of “one store, one tactics” approach and amplify the store segmentation for Top stores in CN. Proactively co-working with regional sales teams on assortment regionalization.
- Close monitor in-season product launch plan, lifecyle, sell through & delivery status with XF team. Actively involved and drive actions for proper product launch landing in store and being agile in propelling STR growth
- Supporting the development of the conceptual assortment plans by determining key product attributes and business and category/product type opportunities, fulfill the missing gap through SMU request & exclusiveness request
- Participating actively in the Go-To-Market process and is the key contributor to voice up from business perspective
- Enhancing close catchup with Buyers from other channels during weekly meeting, to actively learn and share different markets’ product/campaign performance trend
- Smooth handover of Seasonal Range Plan from merchant to buying team, key seasonal initiatives, brand story and capsules distribution plan
- Collaboration with Product teams to ensure the product line meets retail needs, proactivelty call out local differetnation needs
- In season sell through and product feedback (what’s working, not working, quality, fitting, color, etc) to ensure the front line voice are reflected into next season product offers
- Conducting store visits and competitor analysis to gain knowledge of the industry trend and market needs.
- Daily and weekly working with sales to share store level analysis (product mix%, territory, category opportunity) and in-dpeth analysis of reason behind, reflect the learnings into next season buy plan
- Ensuring the team is communicating with other business functions in an efficient and effective way
- Business acumen
- Customer focus
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Influence
- Driving for results
- Building strategic work relationships
- Knowledge and intuition of the style, design and color characteristics of best and worst sellers
- Retail and product expertise in the key markets: China mainland
- Working knowledge of a P&L
- Strong understanding of customer needs
- Ability to identify fashion trends
- Strong organizational, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent presentation, communication and influencing skills
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
- Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior
- Flexibility to adapt to the changing trends of the business requirements
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
- Knowledge and intuition of the style, design and color characteristics of best and worst sellers
- Retail and product expertise in the key markets: China mainland
- Working knowledge of a P&L
- Strong understanding of customer needs
- Ability to identify fashion trends
- Strong organizational, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent presentation, communication and influencing skills
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
- Ability to interact and communicate with all levels of employees – both senior and junior
- Flexibility to adapt to the changing trends of the business requirements
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with cross functional teams
- Solid skills in coaching and developing teams for future development