Accessories Buyer

SNIPES Buyer, Accessories

Bensalem, PA

Hybrid

We live sneakers, streetwear, and neighborhood culture! All Day! Every Day!

With more than 750 stores in Europe and the USA, SNIPES is one of the leading sneaker and streetwear retailers worldwide. Since opening its first store in Essen, Germany in 1998, SNIPES has been an integral part of street culture and is constantly growing thanks to its proximity to the community and regular openings worldwide.

At SNIPES, everything revolves around youth culture. In stores and online at snipes.com and snipesusa.com, our community finds a wide range of internationally renowned sneakers and apparel brands for the latest fits from head to toe. We dive deep into subcultures, sponsor some of the biggest hip-hop festivals, events, and sports teams throughout the world to stay close to our community and keep our deep roots in the global street culture community. Therefore, we work closely with key figures from the scene like DJ Khaled, our Chief Creative Officer. But whether it’s sponsorships or developing grassroots projects – we prioritize giving back to the community in everything we do.

SNIPES has always kept an ear to the streets to create a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. Through our community program “SNIPES serves” and its localized approach we support the needs of our communities, empower, and celebrate our dynamic culture.

Overview: Responsible for the merchandise strategy and product assortments that enable the achievement of financial plans, and owner of vendor relationship. Decision making, planning and leadership are key aspects of a retail buyer's job.

Responsibilities:

• Develops strategic vision of department integrating customer insight, competitive information, market intelligence, sales and fashion trends, fashion intuition and product distortion to maximize sales and profit.
• Analyze consumer buying patterns and predict future trends.
• Develop category strategy. Identifies key categories/items and distorts them to focus on driving newness, sales, and fashion penetration.
• Get feedback from customers by communicating with market consultants to seek current trends and competitor activities.
• Regularly review purchase order reports, styles sold reports, vendor reports, and open to buy plans. Write purchase order's and forecast sales levels. Manage plan vs. actual sales plans with finance and inventory levels with planner/allocator.
• Make adjustments to future purchase order's, at once top sellers and evaluate markdowns. Run styles sold reports for vendors to review top sellers/slow sellers with vendors.
• Maintain relationships with existing vendors and create new vendor partnerships.
• Communicate with other departments to ensure all tasks are completed for all activities involving the stores, ecommerce, and warehouse.
• Attend trade shows to find new trends.
• Communicates expectations to vendors, holds them accountable for the execution and results of production; provides commitments to vendors, timelines (including sample deadlines); understands work in progress and status of production.

Qualifications:

• Requires five plus years of progressive success managing merchandise for a specialty retailer.
• Ethical standards and personal integrity required.
• Product development experience.
• A successful track record and a reputation of exceeding performance expectations. Flexibility to conduct domestic business travel and trade shows.
• Exceptional time management skills and the ability to prioritize to meet conflicting objectives.
• Confident and professional presence.
• Clear, concise and direct communication skills.
• Excellent negotiation skills with the ability to establish cross-functional multi-level relationships.
• Ability to deal with rapidly changing organization issues.
• Ability to lead a team and contribute to the development of “A” talent.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of personal accountability.

Cultural Success Factors

• Enthusiasm for the brand
• Consumer Obsessed
• Innovative Mindset
• Collaborative nature
• Skillful communicator
• Adaptable and Flexible
• Disciplined and self-motivated

Benefits with SNIPES

• Generous Employee Discount
• Paid Holidays
• Summer Hours
• Hybrid work schedule
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Bonus Plan
• Affordable Health Insurance
• Retirement Contributions

Snipes USA and all its subsidiary Companies are equal opportunity employers. We will not discriminate or make hiring decisions based on race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or any other criteria that would violate any Federal or State laws