Senior Buyer

Assortment Building / Range Planning

• Drive assortments and range plans, adopting category strategies each season from Nike Product Selection Resources (E-catalogue).

• Maintain clear customer and Middle East market understanding and trends.
• Align assortment towards overall Category Manager’s product strategy and financial objectives / KPI’s.
• Maximize adoption rate from Nike brand whilst satisfying product presentation guidelines and store capacities (width and depth). Identify and initiate strategic opportunities within portfolio.

OTB Management and Order Placement

• Validating OTB each season for category portfolio working closely with planning team.
• Utilizing Category and Store-wise OTB in optimal mix to support sales strategy. Responsible for all order uploads within category portfolio each season within Nike timelines

Reporting / Financial Analysis

• Review Sales for each season, sale trends, and track performance of category.
• Analyse key performing product areas based on sell through.
• Report on product performance across regions and feedback to Category Sales Managers (CSM) after completion of each season. Using size curve analysis highlight and implement opportunities to refine.

Distribution

• Applying business and category strategy to create distribution plan to support sell-through and sales targets.
• Understanding distribution and allocation methodology for different product types.
• Local Vendor management and order tracking (eg SPID) Support Merchandise planner and operations team with focused product feedback.

Marketing and Product Presentation

• Drive module plan discussions with VMs to ensure quality product presentations across stores, across all regions.
• Plan and liaise each season with RBM team to guarantee marketing support on door level and track product deliveries with merchandise planner

Store Visits

• Visit stores to review execution of strategy at door level.
• Highlight opportunities to elevate sales and offer support to store operations team.
• Ensure visual merchandising and RBM elements executed as per plan. Quarterly outstation exposure.

Support Category Manager

• Provide reports and insight into business opportunities.
• Data Analysis and preparation of range and distribution plans.

Inventory Management

• Liaising with Category team, VM, ASM and Marketing
• Ownership of total stock on hand within category portfolio.
• Responsible for controlling stock levels, maintaining healthy week covers in relation to KPIs (ITR etc) for category portfolio.
• Plan clear markdown strategy for category portfolio, whether it is end of season sale or implementing in-season tactics, maintaining profitability and ASP KPI, not impacting Nike brand presence in the market place. Analysing category SKU efficiency across regions and incorporating key learning in to buys.