Anthropologie Assistant Buyer - Accessories

Job description

Role Summary Anthropologie is looking for an Assistant Buyer to assist the Senior Buyer of Soft Accessories 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 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 proof catalog copy - Identifying...