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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Responsible for creating seasonal buying budgets taking in account last year’s budget, sales, stock and intakes.Manage in season profitability to achieve or exceed seasonal performance.Conduct quantitative analysis and insights to optimize line profitability, monetize new opportunities and identify risks.Maintaining a close working relationship with the strategic brands. Discussing product performance e.g. liquidation and sell through, as well as highlighting in-season opportunities to maximize sales.Work with the Merchandising planning calendar to ensure that all business functions are aware and deliver information to deadlines to support decision making.Create business roll ups of future seasons to provide transparency for the Merchandising team and ensure Sales and Buying plans are accurate in all systems.Continuously work on improving data integrity in Power BI

Vianen, Utrecht Province, Netherlands

Allocate product on a Pan–European level and drive sales by accurate product placing on a location/store/size level. Ensure best use of available products in line with the latest trends.On a daily/ weekly base, review and analyze SKU’s (Stock Keeping Unit) in the business to spot and optimize distribution and sales.Strong Collaboration with the Planning department to suggest/ request pulling forward additional inventory for fast movers and to determine an exit strategy for slow or non-performers.Close contact with the GEO field teams to support stores that are underperforming or facing inventory issues and take learnings from product sales in each market.Managing the New store, Relocation, Remodel and Expansion project. Liaised with the warehouse regarding reserved inventory and store shipments and ensure the targeted SKU’s are being allocated to optimize maximum sales performance upon opening.Train and mentor newly hires. Explain the configured processes, standard procedures and teach them how to use the day to day applications, e.g. Webapps, Quantum, Mainframe and WISER.

Vianen, Utrecht Province, Netherlands

Responsible for providing administrative support to the buying team by maintaining the purchase order files and vendor documentation on a daily base, as well as creating SKU’s and purchase orders in-season and during vendor quarter buy deadlines.Collaborate cross functional with other departments in the business e.g. Planning, Allocation, Marketing and Social Media to ensure a good and efficient working relationship.Make sure to align with vendors regarding delivery and collecting of samples. Once delivered, document and mark all samples for the buying team.Ensure that the correct buying processes are implemented and procedures are executed correctly to meet the required deadline(s). Additionally, manage any ad hoc projects whenever it was required.

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