FILA Looking for Buyer, Apparel at New York, NY Full Time

The Buyer Apparel is responsible for developing assortments and buys for Retail and E-Commerce. The role works with DTC Planning/Allocation, Retail, E Commerce, Consumer Creation, Marketing, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving sales, profit, and inventory targets for the DTC Apparel category.
• Provide seasonal line input to Consumer Creation to support product needs for Retail and E-Commerce.
• Maintain product assortments, including in-store and out-store dates at the style-color level.
• Review best seller and hindsight analysis to inform future assortment, pricing, and inventory strategies.
• Implement seasonal competitive benchmarking to evaluate relational pricing and adjust as needed.
• Ensure all buys are approved by DTC leadership and submitted by required deadlines with accuracy.
• Manage calendar of weekly POS promotions, and clearance markdown strategies for stores and Fila.com.
• Partner with Inventory Management on allocation and replenishment strategies.
• Support monthly OTB process to maximize financial outcomes, drive sales, margin, and inventory efficiency.
• Attend weekly business meetings to review results and recommend actions to meet financial targets.
• Optimize assortment through SKU productivity/APS analysis to eliminate unproductive choice counts.
• Partner internally to support visual merchandising, cross-sell, product knowledge, and training initiatives.
• Manage Apparel sample placement and work with the E. Com team on the E2E product set-up on the site.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of product from a commercial and aspirational perspective.
• Solutions and results driven individual who makes analytical and data-driven decisions.
• Highly collaborative individual with strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, and listening skills.
• Highly organized and process driven, yet agile, flexible, and adaptable to evolving business needs.

Experience / Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Retail or fashion industry experience, preferably with athletic or casual footwear and apparel brand.
• Prior background in merchandising and buying for retail stores and/or an e-commerce site.
• Excellent computer and software skills: MS Office, Google Workspace, Google Analytics, business analytics (MS Power BI), and ERP (MS D365).

Compensation:

$86,000 – $105,000

• At FILA USA, actual compensation within that range will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, and qualifications.