Buyer Ds, Allen Solly

**Designation**:Assistant Manager

**Updated**:December 16, 2024

**Location**:Karnataka, India

**Organization**:Apparels

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 2-8 years

Education: Graduate and above

Preferred skills: Buying, OTB Planning

**Key Result Areas**
- Merchandise assortment plan for all stores
- Create appropriate buying plan for assigned category as per Sales targets
- Set ARP targets for product categories
- Create Option plan and conduct depth analysis
- Formulate Stock to Sale plan for a season - EOM / BOM
- OTB calculation
- Create appropriate buying plan
- Creating/Buying Flash Line as per the current trends for A+ Stores

**Monthly Target setting for each category**
- Breaking up of Monthly targets into product category
- Target Vs achievement
- Merchandise plan report
- Product performance Lk2Lk

**Inventory Mgmt**
- Ensure Ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained
- Dormancy within specified norms
- Pullback within specified norms
- Sell thru reports on Excel for Week1, week2 sales
- Photo Sell Through Report

**Stock & sale plan**:

- Product category wise dispatch plan
- Planned Vs actual
- Allocation plan for each store as per dispatch plan and size wise analysis
- Tracking allocation vs actual dispatches

**Market Intelligence**
- New launches (competition product / window / schemes)
- Competition Mapping
- Training (Merchandise, Product & VM related)
- Estimation of market, product & design trends

**Core Business Contribution**
- Monitoring to enhance the category contribution % of total business of LTL basis
- Identifying new designs to be added to this category

**Range Architecture to Product**

Providing Range architecture for a specific season to product and design. With Category wise option grid with learning from past seasons and from market forecasting

**Integrated Go To Market (IGTM)**

Planning for a successful IGTM story along with VM and design

Dressing up one key store for the look

Roll - out across stores

**Integration with space planning**

Working in close co-ordination with retail planner to closely monitor returns from space allocated

**Qualifications**:
Under Graduate

**Minimum Experience Level**:
2-6 Years

**Report to**:
Group Manager