Senior Buyer - Beauty Beverly Hills, CA

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Beverly Hills
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

Fashion Nova is the world's leading trend-to-market fashion and lifestyle brand with high-growth categories across its Women, Men, Kids and Beauty divisions. Renowned for delivering the most-wanted styles to millions worldwide,Fashion Nova earned the title of the Top 5 Most-Searched Fashion Brand on Google in 2022, alongside Louis Vuitton and Nike.Founder & CEO Richard Saghian launched the brand in 2006, from a retail location in Los Angeles. After multiple store openings, Saghian launched the e-commerce website forFashion Nova in 2013, pioneering a disruptive social commerce model of affordable, on-trend, size-inclusive clothing online - powered by an innovative, social media-first marketing strategy.Today, Fashion Nova has amassed over 40 million social media followers, with annual sales of approximately $2 billion!The brand's name has been featured in chart-topping hit songs by Cardi B, Drake, 21 Savage, Saweetie, The Game, Tyga and Offset and its styles have been worn by many celebrities, artists and athletes including Meg The Stallion, Ice Spice, Chris Brown, Floyd Mayweather, Rick Ross, Kourtney Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner.ROLE OVERVIEW Reporting to the Chief Merchandising Officer, you as the Senior Buyer, Beauty will lead buying activities across a range of beauty categories, products, and brand, and will oversee sourcing, buying, replenishing, and all vendor relationships across the Beauty category.To be successful in this role, you must be able to keep pace in a highly fluid, ever-changing, collaborative workplace. You must also have excellent communication skills in order to engage the attention of our experienced leadership team and influence-respond to complexities with a high level of technical acumen.RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with senior management and cross-functional divisions to ensure all are aligned on business strategies, short and long-term growth objectives
• Directly responsible for key category metrics (KPIs) for the following: new and existing brands, new products, pricing, margin, promotions, and product life cycle
• Negotiate with vendors to secure exceptional everyday pricing, promotional dollars, special opportunity buys, rebates, growth incentives, delivery, and payment terms
• Administer and manage RFQ packages, execution of contracts, product evaluation, quality issues; create and maintain supplier, product database
• Drive new product-brand onboarding process to ensure timely and quick to site-market
• Build, edit and maintain assortment to create market advantage while reflecting customer needs-requests and adhering to the Company model
• Manage and develop strong vendor relations through regular and consistent communication to ensure a clear understanding of short-long-term goals and capabilities
• Coordinate with Planning Team and Replenishment Buyers in managing inventory turns, service level, order cycles, deal implementation and general supply chain practices
• Create, review and utilize reports to enable in-depth analysis of category successes/challenges
• Develop promotional co-op activities that are profitable and highly effective in conjunction with Marketing
• Implement Beauty planograms by working with vendors to determine assortment, secure samples, assessing SKU/Brands productivity, gathering SKU setup, maintaining add/delete lists, and managing fixtures with vendorsROLE REQUIREMENTS
  • 7+ years of experience in buying for Beauty, preferably with an eCommerce brand
  • Proven relationships with direct vendors and merchants
  • Experience working with third-party brands
  • A strong pulse on the Beauty industry and competitors
  • Ability to drive growth in an entrepreneurial environment
  • Advanced experience with Excel and Google Sheets
  • Experience with MPI (MARKET PRICE INDEX)
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • English, additional language(s) an advantage
  • Schedule of this position: Monday - Friday - Core business hours - OnsiteBENEFITS
    • Formalized career paths for continued professional growth
    • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
    • Comprehensive health insurance across Medical,Dental and Vision
    • 401k match, with immediate vesting upon eligibility
    • Weekly catered lunches & fully-stock kitchen pantry!
    • Opportunities to travel for trade shows and vendor meetings
    • Summer Fridays Early Departure
    • Team bonding events and programs
    • Attractive employee discounts!Fashion Nova, LLC, and subsidiaries thereof, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.We are steadfast in our commitment to equal employment opportunities and pledge that these objectives are reflected in all aspects of our daily operations.We will continue to recruit, hire, train, and advance in employment qualified individuals in all job titles without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, status as a protected veteran, criminal history, or status as an individual with a disability; and shall not discriminate against any individual, any such characteristic, nor any other classification protected by local, state and-or federal law.Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf LinkedIn Profile Website Are you able to provide original documentation to verify your identity and eligibility to work in the United States? * Select... Do you now or will you in the future, require sponsorship for a work visa? * Select... U.S. Standard Demographic Questions We invite applicants to share their demographic background. If you choose to complete this survey, your responses may be used to identify areas of improvement in our hiring process. How would you describe your gender identity? (mark all that apply) Select... How would you describe your racial/ethnic background? (mark all that apply) Select... How would you describe your sexual orientation? (mark all that apply) Select... Do you identify as transgender? Select... Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning? Select... Are you a veteran or active member of the United States Armed Forces? Select... Voluntary Self-IdentificationFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.As set forth in Fashion Nova's Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. Select... Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305 Page 1 of 1 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 Expires 04/30/2026 Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305 Page 1 of 1 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 Expires 04/30/2026
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