NATURE OF ROLE

A junior but critical coordination role working under the direct guidance of the CEO/President (Merchant) and Vice President & COO. The Coordinator is the day-to-day execution partner for the Buying Team — supporting each seasonal assortment from order placement to selling floor and translating leadership’s vision into seasonal stories, on-floor execution, and activated brand moments across all customer touchpoints. This is a development role with a transparent growth path; the successful candidate brings a strong foundation in buying, assortment, or product development, and learns luxury womenswear, the Andrews customer, and brand activation on the job.

Key areas of responsibilities include but are not exclusive to:

BUYING & PRODUCT

- Maintain assortment plans, buy sheets, product information, and vendor records
- Coordinate with vendor and supplier partners on order milestones, sample and fitting reviews, and delivery timelines
- Manage the seasonal buy calendar, ensuring sufficient lead time across order confirmation, review, and delivery
- Steward incoming product — receiving, logging, photographing, and presenting for leadership review
- Track landed cost and margin against targets; document vendor and supplier capabilities, lead times, and category strengths

ACTIVATION (growing share as assortments ship)

- Support development of seasonal Key Stories and channel them through digital and physical activation
- Partner with Marketing, Visual Merchandising, eCommerce, and Store teams on launch activations, content, and in-store presentation
- Support trunk shows, launch events, and experiential activations
- Capture customer reactions and selling-floor feedback to inform future buying, product, and activation decisions

PEOPLE & PROCESS

- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for vendor and supplier partners on assortment matters




- Coordinate cross-functionally across Marketing, Visual Merchandising, eCommerce, and Store Operations
- Execute and continuously improve buying and product workflows; document SOPs, templates, and vendor files as the process matures
- Participate in customer-facing events as a representative of the Buying Team, gathering direct feedback

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

- On-time delivery against the seasonal buy calendar
- Margin and cost adherence against targets set by the CEO/President
- Quality of cross-functional coordination as reported by internal partners
- Demonstrated growth in luxury womenswear knowledge, Andrews customer fluency, and activation capability over the first 12 months

COMPETENCIES, TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE

- c. 2–4 years of experience in apparel buying, assortment, or product development
- Demonstrated ownership of buy sheets and cost/margin analysis, or tech packs, BOMs, and costing analysis
- Direct vendor, supplier, or factory liaison experience
- Strong project management skills with the ability to track multiple workstreams in parallel
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and time management
- Comfort taking instruction at every juncture — this is a development role for someone who wants to grow into broader buying, product, and activation leadership
- Willingness to learn luxury womenswear, Andrews customer personas, and the full activation discipline on the job
- Genuine interest in strategic marketing and brand activation; academic or applied exposure is an asset

Digital literacy

- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word — advanced)
- Experience with PLM, retail/buying systems, or tech pack tools, and workflow tools such as Asana (preferred)
- Experience with LLMs (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) preferred — Andrews is AI-first with human in the loop

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📌 Buying Coordinator- Product Development (Toronto)
🏢 Andrews
📍 Toronto