The Retail Purchasing Coordinator is directly responsible for coordinating the movement of purchased products from suppliers and addressing any supply/supplier issues, negotiations, sales and turnover and monitoring analytics.
Job Duties
Prepare, analyze, and negotiate Requests for Proposals (RFP) with suppliers.
Manage apparel vendors and develop strong relationships.
Analyze vendor and product reports weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually to ensure proper stock levels, product turns and forecasting.
Monitor industry trends.
Create strategic assortment in each category to meet the demands of the business.
Completes top level seasonal buys to ensure optimal productivity by style, and reacts to trends in-season.
Evaluate competition.
Replenishment following budget, guarantee optimum stock levels and meet turnover goals and proper allocations to our retail stores.
Make recommendations for aged inventory exit strategy, markdowns and monitor.
Utilize inventory control measures for cycles of incoming and outgoing inventory,
utilize Capacity Planner and be aware of warehouse requirements.
Monitor pricing, cost changes, duties and margins meet our requirements at all times.
Clear communication and timely follow up with Vendors and Head Office.
Recommend current items and negotiating as required.
Gathers recent product and training information for stores and works closely with Brand Ambassador to update staff as required before launch.
Maintains and updates import costing.
Work with customs including preparing and submitting all customs documents for shipments as required.
Other tasks as required.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $23.00-$25.00 per hour
Perks:
Dental care
Extended health care
On-site parking
Paid time off
RRSP match
Store discount
Vision care
Flexible language requirement:
French not required