Tuesday, November 3, 2009

CAREER: Free People Wholesale Merchandise Assistant (Philadephia, PA)

FREE PEOPLE WHOLESALE MERCHANDISE ASSISTANT

A Free People Merchandise Assistant is a self-starter with the passion and dedication to succeed in a fast-paced environment. The MA will be a daily facilitator with Production, Design, Sales, and Planning. Candidates must have an excellent level of organization, communication, and the ability to execute critical parts of the daily process. We are looking for candidates with the ability to creatively balance product/vision with analytics to help drive business and help team meet financial goals.

Skills:

  • Understanding of the Free People customer and the ability to identify product/trend that will meet customer expectation.
  • Excellent written and verbal communicator.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize to deliver on multiple short term and long term deadlines.
  • High level of organization, comfortable managing details and process oriented.
  • Curious and self motivated individual with great initiative and attitude to assist affectively.
  • Experience/knowledge of Microsoft Excel preferred.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for setting up styles, entering purchase orders, and managing systems related to inventory.
  • Responsible for publishing merchandise linesheets for NY Showroom.
  • Manage / organize timelines, buys, and sample requests for buyer.
  • Manage samples as needed within Wholesale department.
  • Effectively communicate on a daily/weekly basis with sales, design, production, customer service to ensure timely and accurate flow of information.
  • Work toward assisting buyer in product development to ensure mix of product is customer oriented and well balanced.
  • Provide ad-hoc reporting as needed to assist buyer in projects or buys.
Job Location
Philadelphia, PA, US.
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular


posted by Michelle Fong

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