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Tailored Brands is a leading specialty retailer of menswear, including suits, formalwear, sportswear, and a broad selection of business casual offerings. Our brands include Men's Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Moores and K&G Fashion Superstore, which offers merchandise for the entire family. We help people love the way they look and feel for their most important moments by delivering personalized products and services through our convenient network of stores and e-commerce sites.
About the Job
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Buyer to join our Merchandising team. This individual will be responsible for identifying, executing, and communicating long term and seasonal merchandise strategies that drive product category growth through the development of assortment plans.
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What You’ll Do | Key Accountabilities
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- Identifies marketing and merchandising trends and ideas, and translates appropriately into realistic merchandise programs
- Ensures overall product assortment meets financial plan targets and addresses consumer needs
- Owns oversight of buying for one category end-to-end
- Develops conceptual assortment/ buy plans to capture assortment needs to feed line planning and product development
- Provides direction and input to product development to ensure that specific product attribute requirements are met and supported
- Develops merchandising strategy including pricing, promotional pricing and cadence, markdown plans and timing
- Manages business to meet company targets on gross margin, sales, sell through, markdowns, inventory levels, and turn
- Directs merchandise projections and flow schedules to ensure timely and constant flow of merchandise
- Manages creation of POs and correct item/3rd party set-up and attributes
- Monitors in-season performance against plan and directs action for improvement as necessary
- Utilizes end of season analysis provided by planners to modify seasonal strategic, merchandise and assortment plans going forward
What You’ll Bring | Skills & Experience
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- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, other related field
- 5+ years’ merchandising experience.
- Experience in buying Men’s Apparel preferred
- Sound analytical, financial, strategic and problem-solving skills
- Superior communication and organization skills
- High level of initiative and ability to execute independently with minimal direction
- Ability to work within a collaborative and dynamic team environment with diverse groups of people
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Domestic travel required
Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.
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Work Environment, Physical & Mental Demands
·      Ability to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time
- Ability to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily
- Able to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally
- Must utilize visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment
- Hours regularly 40 hours per week, as work dictates, in a hybrid working arrangement from our Dublin, California office.
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Benefits
This role is eligible for healthcare including medical, dental and vision, retirement savings (401k with a company match), income protection programs such as life, accident and disability insurance, paid time off for sick leave, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, and holidays, wellbeing program, commuter, adoption assistance, education assistance, legal services, and employee merchandise discounts. For more detailed information go Tailoredbrands.com/working-here/people-culture.
Work-Life Balance
We understand the demands of work, school, family, and personal responsibilities. Through our work-life resources and programs we offer services for every stage of life to help you manage the day-to-day needs. We offer programs such as:
·      Meeting-Free Fridays (encouraged) | so you can catch up on work and self-development
·      Summer Fridays | from Memorial Day to Labor Day so you can enjoy a head-start to the weekend
·      Holiday Early Departure | close out early the business day before a company observed holidayÂ
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The starting salary for this position is $87,797 - $95,000. Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications. Over time, and subject to performance, tenure, and evolving responsibilities, total compensation for this role may grow to as much as $110,000. Other compensation may include a 10% Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) bonus paid out according to policy. Base pay information is based on market location and may be subject to prevailing wage laws, if applicable.
Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.
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