SAINT LAURENT RTW Buyer

Job description

Summary
ABOUT SAINT LAURENT

Founded in 1961, Yves Saint Laurent was the first couture house to introduce the concent of luxury pre-a-porter in a 1966 collection called ‘Rive Gauche’, synonymous with youth and freedom. This shift represented a first critical step in the modernization of fasion and revolutionized the scoio-cultural landscape.
In 1999, the luxury goods division of the Kering Group acquired Yves Saint Laurent and, under the creative direction of Anthony Vaccarello since April 2016, continuous to position the house at summit of the luxury universe.
Today, Saint Luarent collections include women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, shoes, handbags, small leather goods, jewerly, scarves, ties and eyewear.

We are currently seeking a Buyer who will report to Merchandising Manager as part of our dynamic team in Korea.

Job Description

ROLE

This position is a key to manage merchandising of defined categories for Korea market, making decisions on product offer along with network distribution and providing support to the retail, in order to enhance sales, inventory turn, profitability and Brand imange.

Responsbile for the support of planning and directing the merchandising strategies and ensuring that product offer and price positioning are meeting customer demands and market situation whilst driving the business forward in the responsible merchandise category and network.

This position is also responsible for monitoring sales performance, inventory levels and providing analysis and recommendations as needed.

MISSION

·  Responsible for Ready To Wear Category - DOS
·  Responsible for merchandise: style selection, quantity decision, distribution, allocation schedule, stock management, replenishment order and product training
·  Perform sales analysis including competitors analysis
·  Manage pricing strategy and gross margin to secure profitabiity, in alignment with retail strategy and meeting local objectives and targets, keeping in line with market positioning
·  Work closely with Operation, Communication and Visual Merchandising in monitoring the implementation qulity & overall effectiveness and sell-thru of merchandise
·  Collaborate with regional Merchandising team in providing feedback on products, consumers trends & response
·  Provide product knowledge training store on seasonal basis, communicate effectively and timely with the Operations manager and all stores to facilitate selling staff to do effective selling

PROFILE

·  Minimum 5 years of Merchandising and RTW Category
·  Prior experience with Retail/Luxury MNC preferred
·  Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. 
·  Strong business sense and ability to dig deep to understand the business performance drivers
·  Outstanding inter-personal and communication skills
·  Hands-on and self-motivated
·  Resilience under pressure and adaptive to changes
·  Proficient MS Office skills.
·  Travel required

Job Type
Regular

Start Date
2022-05-16

Schedule
Full time

Organization
YVES SAINT LAURENT KOREA LTD