Buyer Furniture

- Conduct market visits for R&D within territories and secure the required information for competition benchmarking in a defined format

- Conduct competition benchmarking across all territories for all the defined UDAs and identify "So What" for each UDA

- Attend Trade fairs in order to assess trends and be abreast with the current market scenario

- Conduct customer home visits or stores to secure Customer / Retail feedback and incorporate revisions in the assortment accordingly

- Identify new products of international retailers through online research in order to assess trends and be abreast with the current market scenario

- Ensure that the product development / sourcing process is as quick and efficient as possible, in order to ensure extremely fast time to market

- Prepare and maintain newness tracker for respective category

- Ensure newness is reviewed and ordered on time

- Ensure all columns in the Product Launch Pack (PLP) are filled correctly for all new products especially features and benefits to customer

Category Management, Growth & Profitability

- Prepare data for UDA analysis and conduct initial level of checking to ensure no data entry gaps

- Prepare price ladder for key UDAs across all territories

- Support senior category management to prepare assortment and pricing architecture by analyzing UDAs, competition benchmarks and Price ladders

- Prepare parts of assortment presentation together with other team members

- Identify and react quickly to trends in the business to maximize sales, test emerging trends for selling viability

- Analyze weekly and monthly sales, margins and inventory with the goal of optimizing sales and minimizing markdowns

- Liaise with cross functional teams- VM, Marketing, eCom, L&D and Retail teams to develop strong story lines for digital marketing as well as in-store experience delivering omni-channel synergies

- Conduct Product by Product (PBP) analysis along with Planning to ascertain monthly buys as per spend plan