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Buying and Creative Manager Womenswear
3 weeks ago
Overview
An exciting and challenging opportunity has just become available for a **Buying & Creative Manager **within womens-wear.
We are looking for a resilient, efficient, and influential individual who can add strategic value to our business by being responsible for the brand, creative, visual merchandising as well as product strategy to support the objectives.
**Qualifications**:
- Matric / Grade 12
- A relevant degree/qualification in Fashion or Textile Design OR Clothing Production OR Product Development OR Merchandising, or a related field.
**Experience**:
- **Essential**:
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience at a senior management level in a Buying/Marketing/Design role, which specifically includes responsibility for the formulation and execution of the product development and growth strategy.
- Previous senior managerial experience to understand the inner workings and product strategies and philosophies of a business in a rapidly changing global and local context.
- Integral understanding of the clothing retail cycle and buying processes.
- Experience in working across multiple business units and functions.
- **Preferred**:
- Buying experience of which at least 5 years is at a senior level within clothing/footwear/homeware retail environment
- Trend and design experience in a value retailer
- Women’s apparel/fashion experience
**Key responsibilities**:
- Responsible for enabling the end-to-end product lifecycle from trend/conception to in-store execution.
- Formulate the brand development and growth, and business plans to support the overall company strategy.
- To achieve and exceed the company’s inflow margin and GP Rands, as signed off at the seasonal business plan meetings, as per the KPI indicators.
- Ensuring that the correct suppliers are sourced and selected for the strategic business unit and managed according to the correct merchandise procurement process to enable on-time delivery as per company policies and procedure.
- Identify and establish credible sources of trend and design input into the business, and translate these into customer appropriate fashion with a unique handwriting.
- Track and analyse best sellers (locally and globally) to optimise assortment and drive sell-thru.
- Develop and implement strong customer targeted content strategies and relevant marketing.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders within Planning and Field Operations as well as relevant internal and external partners where needed to enable alignment and input into strategic objectives and execution.
- Ensure assortment of the range are trend relevant, strong, cohesive and balanced.
- Financial management in ensuring costs are managed within budget.
- Developing and empowering the team by implementing sound people management practices, employee relations and a climate and culture of high performance.
**Knowledge required**:
- Comprehensive knowledge/understanding of SA’s retail clothing market, customers and competitors
- Knowledge of the retail merchandise cycle with regards to Buying, Planning and Marketing/VM
- Knowledge of specific company buying strategies
- People management practices, policies and procedures
- Relevant product knowledge with regards to styling constructions and product components
- Understanding of relevant trends with a flair/eye for acceptable product for the relevant target market
- Have a key understanding of marketing strategies and the experience in social media and digital platforms as a communication channel.
**Skills required**:
- **People skills**:
- The ability to:
- Be assertive, resilient, have tenacity and maintain high levels of drive and initiative
- Prioritise, work well under pressure and deliver to aggressive deadlines, including problem solving
- Create a shared vision and to positively influence others across all levels within and outside the company
- Give input into company-wide initiatives and translate these into actions required of Buying
- **Business related skills**:
- An excellent comprehension of the marketing strategies, branding, customer behaviour and principles relevant to value retailing, as well as a practical grasp of the South African advertising and media industry.
- A strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Project Management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
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