RS Lifestyle Recruitment

Job description:

• Prepare local assortment selection and buying;
  
• Define appropriate product mix, ensuring a balanced in-store merchandise that is in line with company strategy and market needs;
  
• In-season product monitoring and actions by sell-thru analysis and constant market research;
  
• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of the Dutch and Belgian market and fashion trends. Communicate market and trend information to office, stores and Head Quarter’s Retail Merchandising and Brand departments;
  
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of, and alignment to, the brand; design ethos, brand positioning and evolution, collection themes and structures;
  
• Understand and consistently work to achieve company financial objectives;
  
• Develop seasonal store-specific assortments from the collection to address the brand-positioning opportunities and business needs of each location;
  
• Work with wholesale team to develop a cohesive collection to address the shared and distinct needs of both channels;
  
• Create and enter purchase orders in accordance with company procedures and deadlines. Work with production and customer service in Head Quarters to follow up on orders and product flow;
  
• Utilize company selling and inventory reports weekly to monitor business and identify opportunities to maximize net sales and full-price sell through;
  
• Work with planning in-season to manage Open to Buy and provide sales and inventory trend feedback weekly;
  
• Provide sales-trend feedback to Planning during the preparation of seasonal merchandise plans;
  
• Work with Visual Merchandising to support brand positioning, collection/assortment structure and full-price selling through product presentation;
  
• Work with Operations to support brand positioning, collection/assortment structure and full-price selling through product training materials, seminars and sales contests and incentives;
  
• Recommend and implement in-season reorders or transfers to increase net sales and full-price sell-thru;
  
• Recommend and implement in-season and end-of-season markdowns to increase net sales and achieve markdowns budgets;
  
• Has contact with Licencee firms;
  
• Manager and inspirator of the Buyer, Planner and Retail-Services coordinator;
  
• Contact with wholesale and Custormerservice-departments in both the Netherlands and Belgium.
  

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Excel, Word, Retail Pro, Stealth, Oracle;
  
• Good knowledge of the English language;
  
• Single brand- Concept-thinking;
  
• Fashion(trends) knowledge and affinity;
  
• Job requires intensive traveling and occasional working in evenings and weekends;
  
• Planning, Organising;
  
• Decision making;
  
• Innovative, Creative;
  
• Concept thinking;
  
• Flexibility;
  
• Team-manager.
  

Further information:
 

Further information about our client available at another time. Interested? Please send your resume in a Word document and a digital photo to fashion@retailselect.nl. Please refer to Merchandise Manager Benelux number 1568.

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