FREELANCE BUYER / PURCHASING AGENT - Junior

Top fashion company in San Francisco, CA is looking for a freelance Assistant Buyer.

The Assistant Buyer will 

• Partner with Buying Manager to build seasonal strategies and manage financial success by meeting sales and margin goals.
• Represent divisions/brand and present a point of view in business meetings.
• Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan, and forecast in-season sales on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
• Identify risks and opportunities to business and recommend strategies to achieve financial goals.
• Partner with Buying Manager thru seasonal photo planning processes. Align with global online merchandising team on key messages and create market appropriate exclusive messages in partnership with marketing team.
• Assist with web management to create a compelling product experience on the site, to include inspirational merchandise presentation, simple and intuitive category navigation, and clear and accurate product details.
• Approve photography and update sorts.
• Strong organization skill and able to create processes when surrounded by ambiguity.
• Understand product trends, historical data and departmental input at category/class level in order to manage in-season opportunities or risks.
• Understand competitive environment; proactively seek market knowledge through exposure to competitive retail outlets.
• Partner with Manager in developing performance and individual career goals.
• Prioritize and set expectations around key deliverables with cross-functional team and peers.
• Refresh website and update sorts.
• Manage QA for emails to ensure appropriate linking strategy & product stock

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree of equivalent.
• 1-2 years of retail buying experience.
• Experience as an Assistant Merchandiser, Assistant Buyer, or equivalent.
• Strong financial and analytical skills are must.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Possess a working knowledge of financial measurements.
• Demonstrate a point of view about product assortment and business opportunities.
• Maintain a cooperative team environment that promotes high performance standards and attainment of goals.
• Demonstrate strong listening, verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Customer oriented.