Sr. Buyer, Joe Fresh - Children’s Hosiery, Underwear, Sleepwear, Footwear and Accessories

Founded in 2006, Joe Fresh is a leading source for modern style and accessible design, offering comprehensive lifestyle collections for men, women and children. Joe Fresh delivers quality and compelling value in categories spanning in apparel, accessories, and footwear. Joe Fresh collections are polished and sophisticated, with a focus on essential designs that appeal to a broad range of style-savvy consumers. With more than 350 Joe Fresh departments from coast to coast, the Joe fresh network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work. We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness, and inclusivity. We are looking for innovative, hardworking, and collaborative team members for our Joe Fresh team. Join our team in our goal of helping Canadians Live Life Well®.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

The Sr. Buyer, reporting directly to the Director, Category Management, is responsible for driving sales, profit and inventory objectives across multiple categories and channels. This includes all functions that impact these financial objectives, including determining product assortment, pricing, promotion, liaising with marketing, conducting financial analyses, reporting, and monitoring store execution. Demonstrates strong leadership skills that facilitate innovation and teamwork while supporting a culture of collaboration.  Our purpose of helping Canadians Live Life Well will be critical for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financials: Accountable for achieving Omni-channel sales, profit and inventory targets for the assigned category.
• Strategy: Conduct post-season analysis including market share data for developing & executing assortment strategies.
• Negotiations: Develop and maintain relationships with external partners to ensure lowest market costs, late shipping discounts, end of season MD credits, and inventory RTV’s
• Marketing: Drive Go-to-Market strategies developing seasonal plans and executing promotional activities
• Merchandising: Collaborate in setting merchandising direction for different retail formats in efforts to maximize sales productivity while maintaining execution excellence
• Lead: Provide coaching, and direction to the Category Team including feedback and collaboration

Qualifications:

• 7 years minimum Buying experience required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, or equivalent
• Proven ability to deliver results including P&L management skills
• Strong Customer Orientation
• Results-driven, strategic thinking and ability to influence others
• Excellent communicator up, down and across the enterprise
• Ability to gather and synthesize customer and market insight and information in the product identification and development process
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams
• Proven ability to develop short and long term plans in line with corporate strategies

How You’ll Succeed:
At Joe Fresh, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today.

Joe Fresh recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :
$100,000.00 - $132,000.00 / 100.000,00$ - 132.000,00$ (per year / par an)
A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

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