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Wholesale Merchandise Manager Yuppiechef
Job Description
Edison Stone is a dynamic and innovative wholesale subsidiary of the Yuppiechef group, based in Westlake, Cape Town. We distribute over 30 international and industry-leading kitchen and homeware brands and products. As a leading player in the industry, we are committed to delivering exceptional retail experiences to our customers. We are a close, relationship-based team that shares a passion for cooking and everything in the kitchen. Although we unite over how we work together, each of us brings something different to the team and we celebrate our diversity. We have a collaborative culture focused on growth and development.
Who we’re looking for We are seeking a talented Wholesale Merchandise Manager to lead our merchandising team, drive strategic growth initiatives and innovate in a dynamic retail environment. The successful candidate will be reporting directly to the Head of Merchandising.
What your role looks like:
Leading, coaching, and inspiring the Edison Stone team to effectively manage brands from procurement to sales, aligning with the company’s strategic objectives and seasonal financial strategies. Drive sales and profitability by ensuring the right product, at the right price, is in the right place at the right time.
Responsibilities
You’ll be responsible for:
● Management: Lead Edison Stone Wholesale business, achieve team KPIs & targets, streamline processes, and develop succession plans.
● Strategic Alignment: Oversee implementation of divisional merchandise strategy, align actions with key projects and business strategy.
● Trade Optimization: Grow wholesale business to Key and Strategic accounts, elevate wholesale brands in retail.
● Merchandise Process Management: Organize exclusive brand merchandise process, provide strategic guidance to align with business imperatives.
● Product Direction: Provide guidance to Key Account Manager on range curation for import brands, deliver on-trend, relevant, high-margin products.
● Import Conformance & Compliance: Manage compliance team to ensure adherence to all conformance areas while meeting group KPIs.
Qualifications
What experience and skills do you need for the role?
Minimum Requirements:
● Education: Relevant degree or diploma (Interior/Fashion Design, Retail Business Management, Textile, Consumer Science).
● Experience: 7-10 years buying/supplier experience/wholesale, 5+ years management experience.
● Specific Knowledge: Strategy, growth and market share, category extensions, pricing architecture, retail, merchandise cycle, QC process, value chain process
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
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Strategic Account Manager Yuppiechef
Job Description
We are looking for a Strategic Account Manager to join our tight-knit and high-performing team. The ideal candidate has a love for kitchen and homeware products and the latest homeware trends. You enjoy working with numerous international suppliers and brands and selecting product ranges and wholesale product offerings that are suitable for our market and customers. You’re able to negotiate pricing and promotional opportunities and to report back on performance and stock management. You are a strategic thinker and someone who is eager to learn, a self-starter, problem solver, able to manage priorities and who’s comfortable to work under pressure. We work in a dynamic retail environment and new challenges come our way every day, so you will be able to take on new tasks and challenges with a positive, strategic and goal-focused attitude
Responsibilities
What your role looks like?
Reporting to the Merchandise Manager, you’ll be operating as the lead point of contact to oversee a portfolio of assigned brands to maintain/create long-term, trusting relationships with international brands.
In this role, you will:
● Negotiate contracts and close agreements with new and existing brands and liaise with brands to assist with challenging customer requests, including price negotiations and promotional activities and activations.
● Curate product ranges that align with pricing, margin targets and market needs.
● Present new products to customers and sales teams. You will also liaise and collaborate with cross-functional internal teams (including Planning, Buying, Sales and Marketing) to develop new business from existing customers and actively seek and execute on new opportunities within our market.
● Work closely with the Planning team to forecast and track key account metrics (e.g. monthly/quarterly/annual sales forecasts and results).
● Prepare and communicate monthly and quarterly reports on account status, including opportunities/challenges to internal and external stakeholders.
● Be required to travel occasionally Who you’ll be working with Internally, you will be part of the Merchandise team and collaborate closely with the Planning, Sales and Marketing teams and externally, you will be interacting with international brand partners and wholesale customers. Who you are You are a capable, motivated and hard-working individual. Besides having the necessary talent and experience for the role, we’re looking for someone who is a team player, willing to assist where needed to help get the job done. You are able to work independently as well as create and maintain collaborative working relationships across multiple teams and role players. You can multitask and track details with a clear focus on priorities. You are excited to work in a fast-paced, sometimes unstructured environment, confident to pave the way ahead and make decisions without needing supervision. You are dedicated to service and want to see all our brands perform at their full potential.
People would also describe you as
● Accurate
● Efficient
● Organised
● Good at follow through
● Logical
Qualifications
What experience and skills do you need for the role?
Experience: Necessary:
At least 4-6 years experience in an Account Managing or Buying role within a retail or wholesale business. A clear understanding of Account Managing/Buying processes. Advantageous: Work experience in kitchen and homeware distribution.
Qualifications: Necessary:
Matric or equivalent. Advantageous: Relevant Tertiary qualification;
Experience in international brands and wholesale/distribution account managing/buying;
Skills: Technical skills:
● Great analytical ability with comfort in finding patterns and information in data
● Strong computer skills with familiarity working with data and data structures
● Excel proficient Personal skills:
● Excellent verbal and written skills (English). You should feel comfortable communicating with international suppliers and internal and external stakeholders.
● An ability to manage your own time and deliverables
● Dedication to follow through and excellence
● Excellent time management skills and a strong level of self-management
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity
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Buying Manager Miladys
Job Description
To offer our customer mass market-led fashionable, category and item dominant assortments of the wanted items for the season, with a focus on future to be in-house design-led, driven by current trade influences.
Responsibilities
Current Trade
Provide guidance, support and oversight to buyers with regards to their weekly management of all current trade buying activities and action plans including critical marketing deadlines and the weekly performance of items, subcategories and categories.
As a team communicate a current trade report for the senior executives, as well as strategic overviews of the previous month’s trade required for board reports.
Analyse the RLC monthly; monitor growth targets against strategic intent and initiate proactive interventions as needed.
Assess sales and order impacts and provide appropriate guidance regarding action plans.
Facilitate competitive shops and store visits and ensure that action plans incorporate appropriate trading responses.
Post-Mortem & Seasonal Strategy:
Set and drive future brand product calls and vision based on a thorough understanding of historical brand performance and future brand strategy within the bigger picture of gender and company strategy.
Oversee as a team, the Compshop process and gather pertinent PM insights from other functional areas including Resource, Trend and support departments.
Conduct an in-depth and relevant brand product performance analysis (including Quality and Supplier performance – if applicable) and compile a Post Mortem document and summary outlining key learnings, business implications and strategic insights.
Present the Post Mortem to Merchant Executives and senior business leadership identifying critical gaps and opportunities for Brand growth.
Formulate a sub-category strategy that forms the basis of the seasonal assortment framework, ensuring item dominance and clarity of offer for our customer, incorporating trend and Post Mortem learns for the foundation of this strategy.
Formulate a seasonal Supplier strategy with your team, inclusive of the resource department that is well considered, and risk-balanced, allowing for an agile, highly reactive strategy whereby the golden rule forms the basis of the supplier partnership.
Identify key tests and new fabric and develop samples for Strategy and establish costing with Resource including all FOB cost factors.
Compile a Strategy Brand summary ensuring alignment and input from Trend, VM and Resource.
Present to Executives and Business leadership providing a clear, detailed rationale which reference market conditions, Product and KPI’s.
Assortment & Review
Coordinate and manage assortment buying work based on review timelines, key calendar dates, and turnaround timelines.
As a team oversee and support building the assortment plan ensuring that all assortments reflect the right trend interpretation and quality standards per product and ‘talk to key’ strategic objectives and trade performance history.
Ensure effective execution of the resource strategy to build on partnership and supplier relationships, aligned to the company values.
Compile and present the Review including key uniforms and ranges and communicate any shifts in product and changes from the initial strategic direction.
Prepare for the Review Presentation and present to Executives and Business leadership demonstrating clear alignment with the seasonal strategy and the in-store delivery critical path.
Leadership & Process Management
Set goals and direction for the team in line with key brand imperatives as well as gender and company strategy.
Ensure a focus on future brand evolution, innovation and vision as well as continuously optimizing current trade performance.
Facilitate role clarity within the team and ensure clear accountability at a task contribution level as well as ‘ownership’ of key responsibility areas.
Provide guidance and performance feedback at both an individual and team level -optimizing learning and development for all team members.
Ensure accountability through effective delegation with appropriate support and oversight dependent on levels of competence and experience in the team.
Review and streamline processes through innovation where necessary to ensure effective time management, proactive planning and team member utilization in collaboration with peers.
Create a team culture that is disciplined in its thinking; responsive to trade; collaborative across all areas of the business and passionate about fashion retail in keeping with our company values.
Travel
Travel locally and abroad to assess current market trends and provide detailed feedback accordingly.
Qualifications
Diploma/Degree: Fashion Design or Clothing Management
5 – 7 years of Retail Buying experience with experience managing a team
Manufacturing Experience (advantageous).
Team Mentorship/Coaching Experience.
Understanding of the Merchandise Process.
Knowledge of Garment Construction, Fabrics, Fibres & Quality.
Proficient in Mathematics.
Negotiation & Presentation Skills.
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
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Buyer Miladys
Job Description
Build customer focused product assortments for a designated portfolio, in order to maximize sales & gross profit, by sourcing quality, trend appropriate and commercially viable merchandise at the best price in line with the Company strategy.
Responsibilities
Critical Path Management:
Communicate expectations to Buyers assistants and determine a course of action to ensure that orders are placed timeously and critical path deadlines are met in order to achieve desired results for the department.
New Business Growth & Opportunity:
Identify category growth & opportunities for your portfolio/department, through testing new products by considering international & local market trends (through trend trips) & competitors (through comp shops), with our customer in mind to increase sales.
Merchandise Strategy:
Develop a seasonal product strategy for your portfolio/department, in line with company strategy (considering post-mortem and current trade analyses, PMO targets, pricing strategies, supplier strategies, marketing & digital, and fashion trends, etc.) in order to achieve department targets.
Product Assortment:
Build and present a balanced product assortment for the portfolio/department (considering sub cats, planned promotions, volume opportunities and marketing etc.) in line with seasonal strategies in order to meet department review plan targets.
Resourcing & Quality:
Build new and maintain existing supplier relationships, (considering our sustainability, resourcing and departmental supplier strategy) and quality standards in line with our brand DNA, thus ensuring high quality products are delivered on time and in full.
Current Trade:
Consistently analyse and react to current trade and product performance for your portfolio/department & make appropriate trade decisions in order to potentialize sales & minimize risk.
Qualifications
Education:
Degree or NQF Level 6 / Diploma.
Experience:
3 Years Retail Buying experience (preferably ladieswear).
Knowledge/ Skills:
Commercial acumen.
Basic economic understanding of supply & demand.
Technical product knowledge.
Retail market & industry knowledge.
Knowledge of current trends.
Numerical skills.
Communication skills (verbal & written).
Negotiation skills.
Computer literacy.
Conflict management.
Business understanding of Milady’s business processes, MRPG Systems & Milady’s customer.
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
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Specialist Buyer Sheet Street
Job Description
To maximize sales and net profit for designated above average sized specialised portfolio by building and executing an appealing product assortment (style, quantity, quality and sourcing); of distinctive value, at the best price, aligned to the Company’s strategic objectives which delights the customer’s in store experience. Effectively manage product life cycle through continuous product innovation and development while constantly managing a multi season view (current, previous and future). Provide guidance and mentorship for others in Buying.
Responsibilities
Post Mortem & Seasonal Strategy
Analyse the accuracy of previous strategic plans, current trade, competitor analysis, supplier performance, product execution, marketing and trend feedback to draw lessons for portfolio to apply to future seasonal strategy.
Develop and present a seasonal product strategy for portfolio to achieve department targets, in line with Company strategy. Including post-mortem and current trade analyses, PMO targets, pricing strategies, supplier strategies, marketing & digital, and fashion trends, product calls, etc.
Assortment Building and Execution
Prepare and present a balanced product assortment for portfolio (considering sub cats, attributes, planned promotions, volume opportunities, testing, marketing, etc.) in line with seasonal strategies in order to meet department review plan targets. Brief designers on graphics, artwork or CADs/tech packs and source samples to gain approval for execution. Verify that all KPI’s, width & depth, PMO & sales targets are aligned.
Book and execute the approved product assortment in line with the approved budget, production timelines and quality standards in collaboration with Planning and Sourcing. Confirm and raise purchase orders and any amendments in full detail. Track the critical path to ensure product is delivered in store at the right time ensuring quality standards are met so that sales targets can be achieved.
Sourcing & Supplier Relationships (if applicable)
Build strategic supplier relationships and identify new partnership and territories for long term sustainability considering sourcing and departmental supplier strategy. Procure merchandise at the optimal total cost of ownership without compromising on quality and timelines and manage the critical path in order to ensure the timely delivery of quality products to our stores.
Current Trade
Continuously analyse the current season’s trade to ensure that it is executed according to plan in order to achieve strategic targets and budget. Review portfolio performance for related period for all KPI’s. Make appropriate trade decisions and take action to optimise opportunities in trade, minimise risk and manage stock levels. Communicate any changes from current trade to management and any other impacted departments.
Trend & Competitor Research and Development
Conduct trend and competitor analysis both locally and internationally in order to monitor market changes, competitor pricing, products and trends, to ensure that we delight our customers with wanted on trend product at the right price. Identify category growth and opportunities for portfolio through testing of new products from concept through to production.
Qualifications
Education:
Diploma or Degree
Experience:
5+ years (including technical product experience)
Manufacturing experience advantageous
Specific Knowledge:
Expertise knowledge of technical garment or product construction, Fabrics and fibres, Quality standards. Business strategy, retail market & industry knowledge, including trends, research and development. Numeracy and Computer literacy. Negotiation, Communication and Presentation skills.
Business Understanding:
Merchandise and business processes, commercial acumen and understanding of customers’ needs. Internal MRPG systems.
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
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Buyer Mr Price
Job Description
To offer our customer mass market trend led fashionable, category and item dominant assortments of the wanted items for the season at great value on an ELDP (Every Day Low Prices) basis, with a focus in future to be in-house design led, driven by current trade.
Responsibilities
Current Trade:
- Drive current trade through reaction and agility to ensure that planned sales are met or exceeded.
- Develop proactive action plans that address product performance issues and action accordingly in collaboration with planner and feedback to management.
- Communicate any changes from current trade that impact other departments such as resource, marketing and visual merchandising.
- Monitor and manage sales by style, pre-production timelines orders and performance milestones to ensure delivery performance through reaction to current trade.
- Manage Supplier relationships and resolve delivery issues with suppliers.
- Conduct relevant competitor analysis and store visits and relay findings to the Buying Brand Merchant and team.
Post Mortem & Seasonal Strategy:
- Compile and present to senior business leaders a post mortem on trade reports, including good, bad and ugly based, competitor analysis, supplier performance, actual product execution as well as marketing and trend feedback.
- Formulate a sub category strategy that forms the basic of the seasonal assortment framework, ensuring item dominance and clarity of offer for our customer, incorporating trend and post mortem learns for the foundation of this strategy.
- Formulate a seasonal Supplier strategy with your team, inclusive of the resource department that is well considered, risk balanced, allowing for an agile, highly reactive strategy whereby the golden rule forms the basic of the supplier partnership.
- Compile and present to senior business leaders a seasonal strategy including sub cats against the determined.
Assortment, Booking & Production:
- Based on strategy calls, confirm trends, source samples and present range.
- Confirm supplier roll up with the resource department.
- Work with designers to ensure that graphics, artwork and CAD building are proactively briefed and produced timeously for review.
- Responsible for assortment building in collaboration with planner, present back to Brand Merchants if applicable.
- In collaboration with the greater team in preparing for review ensuring that the range is aligned with seasonal strategic objectives.
- Prepare range and verify that all KPI’s, width & depth, PMO & sales targets are aligned.
- Align the booking process with production timelines and in-store deliveries in collaboration with planner and resource.
- Ensure the fit and pre-production sample process delivers the right quality for the right price, and is aligned with the production process and timelines.
- Confirm and raise purchase orders and any amendments in full detail.
Travel:
- Travel locally and abroad to assess current market trends and provide detailed feedback accordingly
Team Commitment:
- Contribute proactively in all team meetings and working sessions.
- Provide direction and coaching to the Trainee Buyer and/or Junior Buyer.
Qualifications
Education:
Diploma/Degree: Fashion Design or Clothing Management.
Experience:
3 – 4 Years Buying Experience.
Manufacturing Experience (advantageous).
Knowledge/ Skills:
Knowledge of Garment Construction, Fabrics, Fibres & Quality.
Trading Mentality.
Negotiation & Presentation Skills.
Product Knowledge.
Understanding of Merchandise Process.
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
Click here to apply
Buying Manager Mr Price
Job Description
To offer our customer mass market-led fashionable, category and item dominant assortments of the wanted items for the season at great value on an ELDP (Every Day Low Prices) basis, with a focus on future to be in-house design-led, driven by current trade influences.
Responsibilities
Current Trade
Provide guidance, support and oversight to buyers with regards to their weekly management of all current trade buying activities and action plans including critical marketing deadlines and the weekly performance of items, subcategories and categories.
As a team communicate a current trade report for the senior executives, as well as strategic overviews of the previous month’s trade required for board reports.
Analyse the RLC monthly; monitor growth targets against strategic intent and initiate proactive interventions as needed.
Assess sales and order impacts and provide appropriate guidance regarding action plans.
Facilitate competitive shops and store visits and ensure that action plans incorporate appropriate trading responses.
Post-Mortem & Seasonal Strategy:
Set and drive future brand product calls and vision based on a thorough understanding of historical brand performance and future brand strategy within the bigger picture of gender and company strategy.
Oversee as a team, the Compshop process and gather pertinent PM insights from other functional areas including Resource, Trend and support departments.
Conduct an in-depth and relevant brand product performance analysis (including Quality and Supplier performance – if applicable) and compile a Post Mortem document and summary outlining key learnings, business implications and strategic insights.
Present the Post Mortem to Merchant Executives and senior business leadership identifying critical gaps and opportunities for Brand growth.
Formulate a sub-category strategy that forms the basis of the seasonal assortment framework, ensuring item dominance and clarity of offer for our customer, incorporating trend and Post Mortem learns for the foundation of this strategy.
Formulate a seasonal Supplier strategy with your team, inclusive of the resource department that is well considered, and risk-balanced, allowing for an agile, highly reactive strategy whereby the golden rule forms the basis of the supplier partnership.
Identify key tests and new fabric and develop samples for Strategy and establish costing with Resource including all FOB cost factors.
Compile a Strategy Brand summary ensuring alignment and input from Trend, VM and Resource.
Present to Executives and Business leadership providing a clear, detailed rationale which reference market conditions, Product and KPI’s.
Assortment & Review
Coordinate and manage assortment buying work based on review timelines, key calendar dates, and turnaround timelines.
As a team oversee and support building the assortment plan ensuring that all assortments reflect the right trend interpretation and quality standards per product and ‘talk to key’ strategic objectives and trade performance history.
Ensure effective execution of the resource strategy to build on partnership and supplier relationships, aligned to the company values.
Compile and present the Review including key uniforms and ranges and communicate any shifts in product and changes from the initial strategic direction.
Prepare for the Review Presentation and present to Executives and Business leadership demonstrating clear alignment with the seasonal strategy and the in-store delivery critical path.
Leadership & Process Management
Set goals and direction for the team in line with key brand imperatives as well as gender and company strategy.
Ensure a focus on future brand evolution, innovation and vision as well as continuously optimizing current trade performance.
Facilitate role clarity within the team and ensure clear accountability at a task contribution level as well as ‘ownership’ of key responsibility areas.
Provide guidance and performance feedback at both an individual and team level -optimizing learning and development for all team members.
Ensure accountability through effective delegation with appropriate support and oversight dependent on levels of competence and experience in the team.
Review and streamline processes through innovation where necessary to ensure effective time management, proactive planning and team member utilization in collaboration with peers.
Create a team culture that is disciplined in its thinking; responsive to trade; collaborative across all areas of the business and passionate about fashion retail in keeping with our company values.
Travel
Travel locally and abroad to assess current market trends and provide detailed feedback accordingly.
Qualifications
Diploma/Degree: Fashion Design or Clothing Management
5 – 7 years of Retail Buying experience with experience managing a team
Manufacturing Experience (advantageous).
Team Mentorship/Coaching Experience.
Understanding of the Merchandise Process.
Knowledge of Garment Construction, Fabrics, Fibres & Quality.
Proficient in Mathematics.
Negotiation & Presentation Skills.
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
Click here to apply
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