Free People Assistant Buyer - Beauty

Job description

Role Summary Free People is looking for an Assistant Buyer to assist the Merchandise Manager of Beauty & Wellness to create an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail, direct and wholesale businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department. Role Responsibilities: - Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the assistant or associate buyer on all necessary tasks - Managing the flow of merchandise and updating merchant boards - Rudimentary understanding of retail math - Sharing and communicating thoughts/opinions to managers or business groups as a whole - Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders in all systems (MTS, IP and Blue Cherry) to ensure timely delivery - Ensuring accuracy in all systems - Communicating late deliveries to the buying and sales team - Setting up new vendors and send them routing guides and pre-ticketing information - Developing cross functional relationships with market and internal partners - Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams - Assisting the buying team to...