Manager - Buying Kids Footwear_Buying_Buying Concept 2.Shoe Mart.UAE_JAFZA_ at LANDMARK GROUP

, , United Arab Emirates -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Aug, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

25 May, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Buying, Category Management, Product Development, Inventory Management, Vendor Management, Financial Planning, Market Trend Analysis, Open-to-Buy (OTB), Merchandising, Cost Optimization, Supply Chain Coordination, MIS Analytics, Footwear Design, Strategic Sourcing, Retail Forecasting, Competitive Analysis

Industry

Retail

Description

Buying & Category Management •Lead and manage the entire buying process, across Kids brands and product lines, to ensure the right and commercially viable product ranges, customer satisfaction, improvement in year-on-year sales, margins, and stock levels. •Keep track of global trends, to deliver newness in the product range. •Oversee category management to ensure maximization of sales and profitability. •Manage financial goals, including pre-season plans, in-season projections, open-to-buy etc., to support retail requirements, whilst maintaining alignment with financial parameters. •Lead the process of aligning the merchandising planners with the OTB to ensure that the right assortment is delivered to the stores Product Development •Oversee and guide the category throughout the entire product creation process, ensuring alignment with key deliverables and milestones to meet specified factory deadlines. •Essential to thoroughly analyze and evaluate briefs, design tech packages, models, and samples. Additionally, identifying potential concerns related to construction, materials, fit, or cost is a crucial aspect. •Playing a critical role in team coordination, managing relationships, facilitating reviews, overseeing delivery, and securing approvals. •As an integral member of the buying team, involvement in providing valuable insights, suggestions, and information to ensure the timely delivery of quality products at the right cost is essential. Stock & Cost Optimization •Manage the inventory (including stock loss mitigation, booked inventory budget, terminal stock etc.) and maintain optimum stock levels in order to ensure that retail requirements are met within the given financial parameters. •Manage centralized bulk buying, margins, markdowns etc. as well as select vendor mix to optimize costs. Vendor & Order Management •Establish and manage relationships with vendors and suppliers in order to ensure financially beneficial partnerships through maximizing the ranges, sales, profit margin and delivery within budget. •Liaise with logistics to monitor supplier efficiency and effectiveness in order to ensure that potential risks and delays are identified, and appropriate remedial action taken. •Place orders and ensure the merchandise is delivered on a timely basis, and in line with the service level agreements in order to ensure compliance with buying plans. Analysis And Intelligence •Analyze and monitor reports, MIS analytics etc. based on actual sales, forecasts, inventory checks, replenishment needs etc. in order to accurately forecast and meet the needs of the business. •Analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats vis-a-vis competition and market conditions in order to identify business opportunities. •Analyze customer buying trends, competitors, and market activities in order to predict future trends and seasonal product requirements. Our journey started in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain. Since then, we have grown into a global retail and hospitality group. The proud creator of 25 plus value led, own-built brands across retail, hospitality, food, and leisure. Over the years, our UAE - based group has evolved into a comprehensive retail and hospitality entity, with over 2200 retail stores, leisure, and hospitality outlets, panning the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Today, Landmark Group is one of GCC's largest omnichannel retailers and India's top home and fashion retailer. We take immense pride in the organic growth of our retail brands, which have blossomed into household names. From Max, Splash, Babyshop, Centrepoint, Shoemart, Homecentre, Emax, Fitness First, to Funcity, to name a few, our brands span across a multitude of categories, enriching the lives of countless families over the past decade. SHOEMART is the largest retailer of footwear and accessories in the Middle East, with over 160 stores to cater to the entire family. With an impressive 34-year history, we have earned our place as one of the most trusted footwear retailers in the region, serving nearly 7 million shoppers annually. We also manage two additional footwear retail chains: SHOEXPRESS, which has 50 stores and is the leading value footwear brand in the self-service format within the region, and Pablosky with 9 stores, a premium kids' footwear brand known worldwide. We take immense pride in being the preferred footwear business for more than 150 vendors from around the world, some of whom have been supporting us for over 30 years. SHOEMART not only offers an extensive range of in-house brands like Celeste, Duchini, Le Confort, Missy, Juniors, and many others but also carries leading international brands such as Adidas, Kappa, Lee Cooper, and Skechers, among others. Our vision is to "Grow Brands that Our Customers Love and Deliver Great Value."

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end buying and category management process for kids' footwear to optimize sales, margins, and stock levels. Oversee product development from brief to delivery while managing vendor relationships and financial goals like open-to-buy plans.