Footwear Buyer
Job Description
Exciting Opportunity: Buyer - Footwear at a Leading Retail Organization
Seeking a dynamic Buyer specializing in Footwear to join a prominent retail organization. In this key role, you will drive product selection, pricing strategies, and promotional initiatives to achieve sales and profit goals. Collaborating closely with Planning and Merchandising teams, you will ensure optimal availability of styles and sizes to enhance the customer experience. Reporting to the Divisional Merchandise Manager, you will be responsible for trend analysis, strategy development, and proactive decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic partnership and resource for the organization
- Leading junior Merchandising Department Associates
- Supervising a high-volume footwear business across omnichannel strategies
- Making product decisions based on brand integrity and core customer understanding
- Establishing assortment plans aligning with financial objectives
- Collaborating with Planning for enhanced sales and margin strategies
- Ensuring store-level depth and SKU assortment meet demand
- Maximizing e-commerce sales and messaging effectiveness
- Identifying and promoting key footwear styles with the Director of Marketing
- Supervising, coaching, and developing direct reports
- Analyzing competition for pricing, trends, and marketing
- Traveling for market visits, store inspections, and vendor meetings
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Retail Merchandising, Business, or related field
- Minimum 6 years of retail buying experience in footwear
- At least 2 years of leading merchandising teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word
- Excellent communication skills
- Understanding of retail KPIs and financial metrics
- Negotiation and vendor management capabilities
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in buying or managing footwear
- Familiarity with western and work footwear brands
- Developing private label or exclusive product assortments
- Strong analytical and quantitative decision-making abilities
- Merchandising experience in store and e-commerce environments
About the Opportunity: Join an established retail organization offering growth potential, competitive compensation, and a collaborative work environment. Make a significant impact in the footwear retail industry with this exciting role. Apply now!
Job Requirements
men, buyer, belts, footwear, nordstroms, neimans, neiman marcus, saks, bloomingdales, macy, bass pro, cabela's, dilliard's, retail
Additional Information
Frontline Source Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. The client cannot sponsor any visas.
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Meet Your Recruiter
Bill Kasko
Bill Kasko is President and CEO of Frontline Source Group, Inc which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Established in 2004 Frontline provides Contract, Direct Hire and Executive Search placements for Information Technology, Accounting/Finance, Oil/Gas, HR, Administrative/Clerical, Legal, Grocery, Aviation and C Level professional individuals. Frontline has grown from the original location in Dallas to 32 locations in the US. In 2007-2020 The Dallas Business Journal named Frontline the #1 Best Company to Work for and The Dallas Morning News Top 100 Places to work in 2014-2015.
In 2015, Bill was named Small Business CEO of the year in Dallas by the Dallas Morning News. Named to the Inc. 5000 in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Inc Best Workplaces in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Awarded #1 Best Staffing Firm to Work for by Staffing Industry Analysts 2014-2016 & 2020. Named finalist in The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For 2016. The SMU School of Business awarded the company the Dallas 100 award for being one of the fastest growing companies in Dallas 2008-2013 and 2019. 2008 the American Staffing Association Staffing Voice Award. Best of Staffing 2011 -2020 by CareerBuilder.com and Inavero based on reviews from Clients and Candidates. Bill also hosted the first all Employment Talk radio show weekly on CBS radio in Dallas and now hosts the popular podcast “People. Process. Service.” Prior to starting Frontline, Bill was the IT Division Director with Robert Half International and Sapphire Technologies.
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