Associate Buyer

Category Manager - Accessories

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the daily operations within merchandising and buying area and developing partnerships with all cross-functional internal partners and market vendors
• Managing the flow of seasonal merchandise and updating merchant core and seasonal assortment decks
• Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase order in systems (Apparel Magic, Shopify) to ensure timely delivery
• Work with Luna for all accessories allocation and creating product transfers to all corresponding locations
• Coordinates all inventory shipments and ensures they are received to selling locations in a timely manner
• Setting up new vendors, style creation, and managing attributes in buysheets and all systems including website interface
• Ensuring accuracy in all systems
• Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams
• Maintain relationships with Vendors
• Identifying photos on the website to be reshot to drive sales and assist in merchandising each category landing page in line with brand aesthetic
• Samples organization and coordination
• Coordinate with Luna communication for all in-store merchandising direction provided by the creative director and provide assistance with visual merchandising on-site as needed.
• Manages all new vendor prospecting and outreach
• Monitors all samples expenses & vendor invoicing
• Creating Assortment plans for each season
• Managing all reporting for accessory sales
• Communicate/work with Ali for all private label/custom pieces ideas, plans, process, etc.
• Working with third parties to create custom Montce accessories each season
• Manage accessory markdowns
• Create receipt plans
• Maintain Buysheet
• Place all accessory orders with Vendors.