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Senior Manager Retail CS Buying

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:

 

Lead the responsible category and determine which merchandise to buy (article selection), how much to buy (article depth) and where the merchandise needs to be (in which regions/formats/clusters/stores) and timely providing sales analysis, trading/fashion trend recommendation and in-season action to support the business. Play a critical role to drive brand direction, category’s business growth.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Pre-Season & In-Season Buying :

· To develop overall seasonal buy strategy for responsible div/cat per format/cluster according to buying strategy, top down financial target, and deeply understanding of fashion trend and consumer.

· Based on existing analysis model to provide detailed analysis on the article level to identify key drivers for top selling articles, as well as slow moving articles.

· Lead team to collaborate with BU, Ops, Planning, DP etc to deliver pre-season buy results following GTM milestone meanwhile keep adjusting the in-season buy through monitoring in-season performance and product opportunity.

· Monitor buying quantity vs. budget; reconcile buy plan to merchandise plan.

Assortment Planning：

·  Create assortment plans by format/store clusters based on option plan, local needs & considered store differentiation.

·  Create detailed product & store segmentation/cluster by Product segment & store segmentation

·  Integrate with BC and RM into c/c campaign planning with right mandatory package to build up at cluster level

In-Season Buying  Execution :

· Closely monitor ST% and product performance by region and store format, to have quick in-season actions based on performance.(recommendation on IA and replenishment, chase, product transfer etc.)

· Timely and closely work with Ops, RA, RE etc. and lead in the process to provide ongoing product and category performance and quantitative analysis to find business opportunity

· Provide analysis to develop mark down strategy and support markdown and clearance process.

· Maintain & Monitor compliance of pre-season buy as well as planning calendar

Post-Season Review:

· Provide analysis and documentation for post-season review.

· Provide seasonal deep dive analysis.

· Partner with X-function team to develop action steps for next season.

Systems and Processes

Participate in buying tool finetune

Training

· Participate in systems training.

· Participate in Products seasonal presentation and technology training as well as merchandising training.

People Management

· Lead team in daily performance.

· Coach team members & newcomers to improve merchandising knowledge.

Others

· Other job-related work assigned from Line Manager.

 

KPI

  1. Sell-Through %
  2. Store inventory level and stock turn
  3. Consumer satisfaction KPI’s
  4. Article ranking vs. Best Seller hit rate

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

  1. Solid Data analyzing know how, with x- cross functional experience,
  2. Product Management or Merchandising experience
  3. Have knowledge about sneaker culture and sensitive with fashion trend.
  • Excellent interpersonal/communication skills (internal & external)
  • People management skills
  • Team player
  • High influencing skill
  • Practical, reactive
  • Results oriented
  • High execution ability and self-management

 

      

REQUISITE EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER SKILL

 

  1. University advanced degree
  • Minimum 8 years’ experience in merchandising planning / buying function, has team management experience.
  1. Great understanding of retail business
  2. Effective partnering, communication, and influencing skills (written and orally) –someone who can proactively communicate analysis/methodologies with functional partners and influence them to rethink and change their existing practices
  3. Prefer very good Excel modeling skills and ability to develop useful models/tools that can be rolled out to merchandising and retail teams
  4. Excellence presentation and PPT skills
  5. Strong PC skills

 

IT

Excel – excellent

PowerPoint – advanced

Outlook – advanced

PowerPoint- advanced

 

 

Language Skills

English: Advanced

Local Language: Fluent

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Job Title:  Senior Manager Retail CS Buying

Brand: 
Location:  Shanghai
TEAM:  Merchandising & Planning
State:  SH
Country/Region:  CN
Contract Type:  Full time
Number:  539010
Date:  Jan 6, 2026
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