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Buyer - Athleisure, Swim & Intimates

VICI8 open roles

Pay
$100,000 – $115,000 a year
Where
Los Angeles, CA
Work mode
Hybrid
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Your applicationOpen nowBuyer - Athleisure, Swim & IntimatesVICI · Los Angeles, CA

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Early applications get read.

12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. VICI postings stay open a median of 46 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.3%7 days
  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.1%60 days
This job: posted 3 days ago

VICI median: 46 days open

The posting

VICI is the ultimate shopping destination for the modern fashionista. Our assortment covers women’s apparel, accessories, footwear, and handbags. We offer an on-trend assortment with capsule-like weekly drops, featured shops, influencer collaborations, and curated daily drops focused on our customers’ lives and the styling inspiration they need. Much of our assortment is exclusive and made with our customers’ shopping preferences and feedback top of mind. We buy and design sophisticated, trend right, and modern styles we know our customers will love.

What started as a small family-owned business, has grown since its start in 2012, to a brand with a strong online and social presence. Affordability, quality, and customer service are at the center of our brand and we always strive to ensure our customers are satisfied with their VICI experience. From opening our Nashville retail store to launching pop ups in Newport Beach and Venice Beach, VICI is increasing its retail footprint to bring more awareness to the brand. We are just getting started and excited about what the future holds!

About the Role

What Will You Do:

  • Responsible for a commercially sound product strategy and assortment plan that will be representative of the VICI Customer tastes and needs:
  • Have expert knowledge on the VICI customer and competitor activities; maintains a strong pulse on current trends and the fashion zeitgeist.
  • Partners directly with vendor on product development to support a strategic exclusive assortment in conjunction with buying off vendor in-line – this position is product development intensive and requires a keen eye for detail, strong communication skills, agility in managing multiple parallel workstreams and ensuring flawless concept to market execution.
  • Develop and execute a merchandise assortment plan that supports the financial, merchandising, and marketing objectives for seasonal product concepts, key items, promotional strategies and assortments mix.
  • Set product and category level pricing recommendations and strategies to align with financial plans.
  • Deliver to OTB goals- sales, inventory, cost, sku and margin objectives.
  • Proactive about making vendor appointments to fill gaps in the assortment
  • Drives business recaps, performance and forward-looking action plans:
  • Recommend styles for markdowns.
  • Analyze and manage in season performance keeping a pulse on customers’ needs and emerging trends and read and react to weekly business; utilizes learnings to inform in-season and future season actions, strategies, assortments and chase including but not limited to, reorders, assortment cancels, edits, discounts, swaps and adds which involve vendor negotiations.
  • Hindsight performance post-season to identify hits and misses and build future season strategy.
  • Partner with Site Merchandising to determine featured categories and products to support sales and inventory initiatives – always scanning for improvements and collaborating on ways to improve customer experience.
  • Positively influence cross-functional teams to hit category goals by effectively communicating important ideas at weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings.
  • Build and maintain strong vendor relationships:
  • Actively source and propose new vendors (if applicable) to executive leadership in order to fill assortment voids and keep product capability innovative and on trend.
  • Drive Vendor Negotiations across product quality, purchase quantity, landed cost, and delivery (and RTV’s) while ensuring vendor relationships stays positive.
  • Proactive about making vendor appointments to fill gaps in the assortment and ensuring Open To Buy targets are filled via aligned on pre-season strategy.
  • Educates vendor on VICI processes in order to drive efficient appointments and order writing process.
  • Lead and develop junior buying team members, effectively communicating priorities and ensuring workflow management delivers to deadlines.
  • Maintain operational excellence by ensuring strong focus on delivering on-time assortment by completing necessary workstreams and being proactive about troubleshooting as needed.
  • Travel as needed.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Deep experience in women’s apparel with a proven track record of delivering to company KPIs, specifically in several of the following categories: intimate apparel, sleep and lounge, activewear, athleisure, swim and cover ups.
  • Passion for and understanding of the Vici customer and how to best serve her.
  • High taste level, with broad market and fashion knowledge, ability to translate trends into commercially viable revenue streams.
  • Excellent analytical, time management and organization skills; meticulous attention to detail
  • Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity
  • Thrives working in a fast-paced agile environment with shifting priorities and is able to manage details with vendor base related to product development and ensuring categories are appropriately launched via agreed upon target dates
  • Ability to work collaboratively across different groups to advance company objectives.
  • Skilled at communicating and negotiating clearly both verbally and in writing
  • Excellent problem-solving skills; willingness to think out-of-the-box to resolve issues
  • Strong analytical skills; demonstrated proficiency working with large data sets
  • Comfortable working with large data sets as well as within systems like Net Suite and Shopify.
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language fluently, and communicate verbally and in writing at a professional level
  • Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency with Microsoft Office (especially Excel), Mac and Google products)
  • Knowledge of standard applications (Slack, Office365, Chrome, etc.)

Work Environment:

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field (or equivalent work experience)
  • 4-6+ years prior experience in retail/ecommerce merchandising and buying
  • Previous management of an assistant or associate

Expected Hours of Work:

  • This is a full-time position – Hybrid with 3 days in office per week (Tuesday through Thursday) requirement

VICI is committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, and industry. That is why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of the best and brightest from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. VICI is an equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe that a variety of perspectives will make our teams and business stronger.

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