MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Range development/Planning
1. Continually drive internal merchandising relationships to include new brands and trends
2. Coordinate and support strategies and plans at the category level
3. Facilitate awareness of changing merchandise opportunities, trends and competition
4. Lead the merchandise team to develop assortment strategies by the business to meet overall strategic objectives including evaluating and/or developing product lines and sourcing new products
5. Lead the Buyers input into marketing plan and work closely with Marketing / Ecommence team
6. Monitor the categories merchandising mix across different zones. Provide direction to team to avoid product conflicts on overlapping between different categories.
7. Share responsibility with Supply Chain for the timely opening and closing of seasons with strong forecasts and budgets and inventory management.
8. Work with team to analyse department, category and item performance and ensure reaction to trend.

9. Develop and leverage strong Vendor relationships
10. Work with team for Vendor performance reviews and business development plans
11. Work with District Manager