Senior Manager - Buying & Merchandising

Roles and Responsibilities
Role:
● Lead buying for key brands within Myntra’s Private Labels & Licenses portfolio
● A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business – Analytics, Financial planning,
Range planning, Brand Strategy, Marketplace Vendor Management, OTB management

Responsibilities:
● Responsible to optimize sales for products

• Revenue
• Margins
• Category growth

● Range Planning

• Season learnings
• Product-Brand-Category mapping
• Pricing architecture for each category
• Effectively planning and forecasting in order to maximize profitability
• Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
• Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis

● Option planning

• OTB working along with the central planning team

● Inventory Management

• Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
• Coordinating with Sourcing team for timely inwards

● Team Management

• Leading a team of 1-2 buyers

● Marketplace operations

• Coordinating with MP vendors to ensure the category gaps are appropriately fulfilled,
  the collection is live on time, pricing is as per demand

● Cross-functional engagement

• Speak with multiple cross-functional teams including Planning, Sales, Finance,
  Sourcing, Marketing, etc to ensure smooth execution for brand growth

Qualifications & Experience
● 6-9 years of experience in Fashion Buying and Merchandising
● Familiarity with category management for Apparel will be preferred
● Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement
● Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships
● Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data