Buyer,Footwear

Pacific Sunwear, also known as PacSun, is a rapidly growing and extremely successful specialty retailer of casual apparel, footwear and accessories designed to meet the lifestyle needs of active teens and young adults. Our corporate office is located in Anaheim and is equipped with a cafe, workout room with showers, basketball and volleyball court.Pacific Sunwear is seeking a dynamic, seasoned footwear buyer for its newest concept, one thousand steps, a fashion forward mall based footwear and accessories speciality chain.Position Scope:Identify, select and manage the merchandising programs for footwear for one thousand steps, which contribute to, and support the merchandising strategies of the Company resulting in the attainment of its financial goals and objectives. Key responsibilities include: purchase decisions, sales growth, inventory and gross margin management, brand management and interfacing with management, planning, allocation and design and product development. The Buyer will direct the activities of their classes in accordance with the approved plan; review results and implement appropriate action where required. Identify and manage emerging and declining trends in a timely manner. Buyer’s emphasis will be on private label along with key branded vendors.Essential Duties:Driving sales and margins through vendor communication, internal design and product development, presenting new strategies and opportunities for sales and profits.Maintain the P.O. system, manage deliveries and manage and write orders.Attend branded vendors appointments. Participate in the Private Label. Product Development process as appropriate. Purchase branded product from the branded market and Private Label. from PacSun in house Design/Product Development.Prepare for meetings and projects with Business Analysts (Planners, Allocation Staff, Merchandise and Management).
REQUIREMENTS
Excellent knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Must have strong communication skills, providing direction to private label, design and product development team and brands.
Ability to work as a team member
Must be task driven and pro-active when it comes to executing tasks
Thorough knowledge of retail Math such as gross margin, open to buy calculations, initial mark up calculations, turnover etc.Education/Experience:Ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5+ years footwear retail buying experience in either a specialty or vertical environment and a Bachelor’s Degree.