URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly)

Free People Buyer - Accessories

URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly) • $80K — $95K *
Philadelphia, PA 19120In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong management and leadership skills
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
  • Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills
  • Strong financial and analytical skills
  • Incredible interpersonal skills
  • Keen awareness of emerging trends
  • A demonstrated history of smart risk taking
  • Able to prioritize tasks and balance immediate and long-term business needs

Responsibilities

  • Managing a team to exceed sales and profit plans for retail, direct, and wholesale business
  • Building collaborative relationships across design, production, merchandising, planning, allocation, and sales
  • Partnering with the planning team to optimize buys and maintain stock levels of key items
  • Presenting topline selling insights to divisional leadership with actionable plans
  • Maximizing retail and wholesale calendar efficiency
  • Coaching and developing the buying team
  • Identifying customer and market opportunities to drive business growth
  • Overseeing financial management of business metrics like OTB and inventory plans
  • Collaborating with design and production to enhance brand quality
  • Analyzing assortment mix for retail and wholesale effectiveness

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Generous employee discounts
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Comprehensive perks and benefits options
Full Job Description
Role Summary

Free People is seeking a Buyer who would be responsible for creating an exciting and timely product assortment for our accessories business across the retail, direct and wholesale divisons that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the accessories department. The Buyer of Accessories would drive trend, while capitalizing on product expansion through new styles, embellishments and brands.

Role Responsibilities

  • Managing a team to exceed sales and profit plan for retail, direct and wholesale business
  • Demonstrating and building collaborative relationships between design, production, merchandising, planning, allocation and sales
  • Partnering with the planning team to distort buys and ensure in-stock positioning for key items and classifications
  • Filtering high level, topline selling takeaways to divisional and director with action plan
  • Understanding the retail and wholesale calendar and ability to maximize efficiency of calendar for retail, direct and wholesale business
  • Managing, coaching, and developing buying team
  • Disciplining self and others to understand customer, competition, and ability to think creatively to seek business opportunities and drive the business
  • Managing the financials of business: OTB, IMU, MD, Closeouts, Inventory and receipt plan
  • Partnering with design and production to exceed customers' expectations for brand quality
  • Partnering with the allocation/planning and sales team to thoroughly understand our store and wholesale customers (department, specialty, international and ecommerce) and develop assortments to best fit their needs
  • Analyzing assortment mix (private label, wholesale, and market) for retail, director and wholesale business


Role Qualifications

  • Strong management and leadership skills
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
  • Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills
  • Strong financial and analytical skills
  • Incredible interpersonal skills
  • Keen awareness of emerging trends
  • A demonstrated history of smart risk taking
  • Able to prioritize tasks and balance the immediate and long term needs of the business


The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

About URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly)

URBN is a portfolio of global consumer brands comprised of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People, BHLDN, Terrain, Nuuly and Menus & Venues. Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a lifestyle specialty retail company that operates under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, BHLDN, Terrain, Nuuly and Menus & Venues brands. The company's Urban Outfitters brand offers women's and men's fashion apparel, footwear, beauty and accessories, activewear and gear, and housewares, as well as music, primarily vinyl records and cassettes. The Anthropologie Group brand sells women's apparel, accessories, intimates, home decor, and gifts. The Free People brand includes bohemian apparel, accessories, intimates, and swimwear. The BHLDN brand offers wedding collections. The Terrain brand sells home goods, gifts, and garden products. The Nuuly brand is a subscription-based rental service for women's apparel. The Menus & Venues brand is a hospitality group that operates restaurants and catering.
Learn more about URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly)
Size
25,000 employees
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Net Income
$282 million
Founded
1970
5 Year Trend
+5%
Revenue
$4 billion
NASDAQ
URBN
* Ladders Estimates

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