Buyer - Vans

Since 1966, Vans has been the original action sports shoe, footwear and clothing company. We are grounded in youth, authenticity and individual style. Heavily involved with international skating, surfing and music cultures, we are globally recognised and firmly believe in loving what you do Today, the Vans brand evolution continues. From its foundation as an original skateboarding company, to its emergence as a leading action sports brand, to its rise to become the world's largest youth culture brand. These are our people. This is our story. This is OFF THE WALL

We currently have an exciting role available for a Buyer to join our VF team for Vans. This role will be responsible for planning, assortment, selection, purchasing, pricing and coordination of promotions for our Vans portfolio.

**Your key responsibilities include but not limited to**:

- Identify sales trends highlighting best and worst performers
- Identify areas of opportunity within assortment and sales trends
- Develop a range selection and product grading in line with business needs based on planning/analysis
- Ensure gender/category breakdowns are in line with overall business objectives and assortment plans
- Review sales and sell thru and develop Markdown plan and recommendations.
- Monitor aged stock and perform consolidations accordingly
- Monitor best sellers and perform consolidations accordingly
- Allocate and purchase core items in line with company objectives and inventory targets
- Forecast core requirements, review and adjust core orders to fill business requirements
- Ensure core lines are always in stock with full size curves.
- Review core lines, store stock levels and replenishment monitored weekly.
- Liaise with Marketing Manager to develop promotional plan supporting key purchased stories
- Identify styles to support window campaigns and all social media and online strategies
- Track sales performance of such promotional plan and review/report success or suggestions for future
- Organise and undertake all preparation for promotional planned and pop-up sales. Suggest strategies of what product needs to be pushed, categories that need attention and ways to impact company sales targets inline with GP objectives
- Liaise with National, State, Area and store managers to ensure you are in touch with issues on the ground regarding assigned brands.
- First point of contact for all senior management and store team regarding any queries, issues or feedback regarding assigned brands
- Liaise with Brand managers reporting successes and giving feedback on the retail performance of assigned brands.
- Present to senior management and store staff regarding assigned brand strategy, trends, product knowledge and what is coming for assigned brands

**What we are looking for**:

- Demonstrated previous experience in a retail buying role ideally with retail apparel / footwear
- A passion for driving sales and achieving profit margins
- The ability to manage and maintain multiple supplier relationships
- Proficient in Excel - analysing data and managing reports
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to communicate with various stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to create, plan, monitor and execute multiple reports
- High sense of urgency with the ability to work autonomously and part of a team
- Excellent time management and organisation skills to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to problem solve and take initiative
- Affiliation with Accent Group Core values and “Make It Happen” attitude

At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves.

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