The Agency Worx Hiring for Omni Channel Buyer at Long Island City, New York Full Time

*Hybrid (Long Island City, NY)

*Multiple roles (Intimate Apparel/Hoisery; Seasonal/Accessories/Sun; Crystal/Glass/Decor)

The Omni Buyer will create a distinguished company image through buying merchandise to maximize sales and profitability of business across channels (stores and online). The Omni Buyer will develop and implement strategy by vendor; partner with planning to analyze and react to sales trend while maximizing both store and web generated business. The Omni Buyer will partner with existing vendors to curate a distinguished assortment across both channels as well as seek out new and differentiating vendors to satisfy customer demand. The Omni Buyer is responsible to achieve company sales, gross margin, and turnover objectives in their assigned area of the business and will partner with planning to use standard reports and analysis to inform pre-season and in-season buying strategies. The Omni Buyer must lead an engaged workforce by simplifying work, driving standardization and ensuring empowerment of employees.

Key Responsibilities:

• Buy and curate distinctive merchandise to maximize sales and profitability.
• Evaluate and negotiate with market for desirable exclusives.
• Strengthen relationships with vendors and negotiate terms of the buy with the vendor.
• Provide the Digital Merchant the assortment strategy information to facilitate the online execution of merchandise strategy.
• Collaborate with planning to develop pre-season financial plans that will maximize business across both channels.
• Manage all pricing functions to maximize profitability across both channels (store and online).
• Foster an environment that promotes development of junior executives and creates an engaged workforce and personally sets the example for their development.
• Recommend major brand and classification strategies to Omni DMM.
• Strategically plan, manage and control inventory inclusive of the ROF to maximize sales and margin.
• Provide information to Omni DMM to inform online and offline marketing strategies and offline visual strategies.
• Collaborate with Fashion Office to develop and procure trend-right product assortments
• Determine in-season reaction to product performance. Based on planners analysis, determine quantity and which styles / colors should be reordered and vendor’s availability for the reorder.
• Prepare and present style-out to Omni DMM.
• Negotiate with vendors for collection of RTV and MDA money.
• Reconcile projected POS and hardmarks to markdown plans.
• Create / update VMT’s for monthly ROF and vendor communication.
• Manage in season VMT / offline vendor flows and reconcile on order prepared by SAB and AB’s supported by the analytics that are provided by the planner
• Ensure all items are appearing on web

Skills Required:

• Strong partnership skills; able to broker mutually beneficial outcomes with stakeholders internally and externally.
• Minimum of 1-2 years prior buying experience.
• Keen sense of trend and industry knowledge.
• Strong analytical and strategic abilities.
• Understands how to influence others for desired outcome.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong PC skills.
• Flexibility in responding to changing priorities.
• 4 year College Degree required.
• Vaccination Required