Specialist, Buying, Dtc

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- This role is responsible for supporting Own Retail (ORT) business by implementing all day-to-day trading activities of the department by reviewing buy and work closely with In-season Trading (IST) team to focus upon delivering of planned sales, margin and terminal stock objectives.
- This includes:

- Implementation of Merchandising Country Strategy
- Execution of the Merchandising End-to-End (E2E) process
- Planning the right buying strategy & buy volume for ORT
- Monitoring all in season activities for Franchise BLR
- Finalize assortment planning for ORT
- Providing feedback to SEAPAC DTC Buying Department
- Abbreviations:

- DTC: Direct to Consumer
- ORT: Own Retail
- FRS: Franchise
- BLR: Brand Led Retail
- OTB: Open to Buy
- A&R: Allocation & Replenishment
- EOS: End of Season
- PLC: Product Lifecycle
- E2E: End to End

Key Responsibilities:
- Support the implementation of key strategic priorities in the country across ORT within the SEAPAC DTC Buying Department framework.
- Responsible for the Buy in the country for ORT.
- Prepare Forecast and place Final Orders at an article level based on the given Open-To-Buy (OTB) budget for ORT.
- Drive and achieve Benchmarks and KPIs on productivity and sell-through which are aligned with SEAPAC DTC Buying Department.
- Build the right product mix based on the share of business of store formats, product categories, store types, age and gender mix for ORT.
- Review and implement the right buying analysis by categories for ORT.
- Support our ORT to ensure their sell-in buy is appropriate by giving them the right range recommendation per store based on SEAPAC DTC Buying seasonal strategies
- Provide guidance to ORT to ensure that all merchandising strategies and principles are executed timely and correctly.
- Ensure orders are placed accurately and on-time for ORT.
- Carry out and ensure products are launched on time with adequate stock for ORT.
- Work closely with In-season Trading (IST)/ Store Operations to ensure product grading and product option plan are in line with space management guideline (pre-season) for ORT.
- Work closely with IST key person in monitoring and ensure that the Best Sellers are fully replenished on a weekly basis.
- Compile each store’s capacity plan for reference during the Buying process.
- Generate and analyze ORT’s Key Buy, Sales and Inventory reports.
- Ensure in-season chase models (SPEED, In-Season-Creation and Planned-Responsiveness) are well managed to make sure inventory is optimal for ORT.
- Follow ORT store-visit schedule to achieve an expected amount of time spent in the stores. Ratio of time to be spent in office versus stores is recommended as 60%/40% respectively.
- Analyze ORT (SVP) Store Visits Pack prior to store visits.
- Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- Educational:

- University degree in business, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience
- Merchandising/Retail Finance/ Business Analytics Experience: 4-5 years
- Management Experience:0-2 years
- Functional:

- Merchandising skills with a minimum 4-5 years’ experience in retail planning and operations
- Fluency in English
- Exposure in managing multiple markets will be a plus
- Industry: Preferably in apparel/ fashion/ FW or FMCG Retail
- Exposure: Sports, Fashion

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- JOB TITLE:
- Specialist, Buying, DTC- BRAND:
- adidas- LOCATION:
- Singapore- TEAM:
- Retail (Back Office)- STATE:
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- SG- CONTRACT TYPE:
- Full time- NUMBER:
- 472215- DATE: