Buyer, Men’s Shoes & Kids, the Americas

Overview: The Buyer of Men’s Shoes, Men’s Bags, and Kids shoes is responsible for creating and developing a merchandising strategy for the Americas region that will achieve the sales objectives for their specific merchandise category or categories, under the direction of the VP or Buying and Planning for the Americas. This includes creating an exciting, timely, and quality product assortment that meets or exceeds the sales volume and profit plans. They intuitively respond to customer feedback, market trends and develop strategic action plans that drive category specific growth, increased profitability, and sell-thru.

Responsibilities:

• Buyer of Men’s Shoes, Men’s Bags, and Kid’s Shoes

Product Market Focuses:

Travel to Paris for market (2 x a year)
Develops the buying strategy for each given category every market session to clearly outline the vision of the buy incorporating key brand messages as well as representing product that fulfills specific market needs
Presents buying strategy to buying directors and senior management ensuring comprehensive understanding of the offer and ensuring optimal product mix is assorted
Write final buy taking in all store feedback, market trends, and historical selling trends into account
Analyzes and recaps the final buy after each market, presenting top investments, opportunities and risks to the executive team

Additional Merchant Focuses:

Regional store market travel (approximately 4 x a year)
Monitors industry trends and evaluates competition through store and market visits and communicates feedback to global product team on opportunities by category.
Participates in the budget and open to buy forecasting process to determine appropriate sales potential.
Collaborates on buying process and tools that are scalable and relevant to the category of business and channel of distribution.
Analyzes weekly selling reports, seasonal hindsight recaps, and ad hoc reports to drive assortment decisions
Manage ST% of seasonal product by forecasting total ST as well as style by style ST and identifying opportunities + risks accordingly.
Analyze sales trends and use learnings to identify product opportunities – transfers, reorders, etc - trends, and offerings which will impact the business and provide results
Ensure proper management of the category (i.e. deliveries, ST, business needs) through consistent communication and follow-up with Paris office and communicating issues and opportunities to Merchandising & Planning team.
Works cross functionally with ecommerce team, visual, communications, store directors, and client experience teams

Skills and Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising or related field required
4-6 years of experience in Buying, Planning, or similar role, shoe buying experience is preferred
Strong business and financial analysis skills
Ability to create and execute a sound business strategy
Strong retail math acumen
Passion for Christian Louboutin and a true ambassador for the brand with strong sense of responsibility
Ideal candidate has work experience in medium sized multinational company or luxury business
Additional language fluency is a plus
Adheres to company policy and confidentiality
Proactively contributes to creating a team atmosphere that is professional, flexible and enjoyable
Collaborative in approach to decision making, able to take in multiple viewpoints and find the best path forward
Exudes a “no task is too big or too small” attitude, with initiative, commitment, reliability, and positivity. Does not accept mediocrity and is a leader to their peers
Versatile; embraces change and is consistently able to develop and adapt to the needs of the business.
Driven to learn and grow
Grasps new concepts quickly, prioritizes efficiently and is organized
Exceptional customer service skills along with transparent and effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
Strong follow up, follow through and attention to detail to ensure deadlines are met
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office/Suite and experienced with excel formulas

Our Business and our Values:

Christian Louboutin, founded in 1991 in Paris, is a leading global luxury brand for shoes and leather goods for both women and men. Christian Louboutin is also renowned for its iconic red sole, imagined by Mr. Christian Louboutin himself, a year after the creation of the brand. The brand has more than 160 Boutiques in 38 countries featuring the signature shoes such as the iconic pumps, sneakers and loafers alongside the seasonal collections for women, men and accessories. Christian Louboutin imagines collections through a large spectrum of inspirations emanating from his love of Paris, his travels, and his passion for art and craftmanship. 2014 welcomed the launch of Christian Louboutin Beauté with the iconic Rouge Louboutin nail and lip colour.

Our people are at the heart of our brand.

We celebrate individuality and empower our team members to have responsibility, autonomy and creativity within their roles. Our colleagues share the same passion and dedication to our Brand and its continued success.

We live by our values:

We are down to earth – we stand with authenticity, integrity and respect. We have passion – we drive our business with agility, commitment and care. We feel happiness in all that we do – we collaborate with positivity, open-mindedness and fun. We find inspiration in our work – we envision the future with confidence, creativity and freedom.”

The Maison Christian Louboutin is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to recruitment practices that do not discriminate against any job applicant because of their race, color, gender, age, nationality, culture(s), religion, sex, physical or mental disability, or age. We believe that a culture of diversity and individuality fosters our above core values. So, if you also share this mindset, these values, and you dream of coloring your soles red as part of the Louboutin adventure, please join us!

In accordance with the New York City Commission on Human Rights and in compliance with the Salary Transparency Law (just in NYC), Christian Louboutin envisions the general compensation range for this position to be $LOWEST - $HIGHEST per YEAR/HOUR. *This range is NOT inclusive of other forms of compensation or benefits such as commissions, overtime, discretionary bonus, health insurance, retirement savings or paid leaves of absence. Such details will be further communicated during the interview process and/or at the time of an official offer of employment.

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