[Hiring] Fashion Buyer @Rebag

Role Description

Rebag is currently hiring for a passionate buyer to join the Buying team. As a buyer for Rebag, the ideal candidate would have experience in luxury goods, exposure to the resale market and an understanding of pricing. This role is not a traditional buying position but more of a conventional approach to buying as there is a heavy focus on analytics. The role reports to the Director of Buying.

Responsibilities

• Researching: Assist the buying team with research for our six categories; Handbags, Accessories, Watch, Jewelry, Shoes and Apparel. Understanding luxury market and having sound knowledge about different luxury brands and their seasonal collections is important function of this role.
• Pricing: Understanding how resale pricing for luxury goods work. Researching market trends and resale market price comps. Working extensively on client submissions and learning how to recognize high-end designer trends, models, and SKUs from our database as well as site search. Determining based on market research, the buying price and resale price and establishing margin based on that.
• General Buying: Organizing various buying process guides, team learnings, and buying documents. Performing buying support duties such as updating data, exporting and tracking files, responding to general buying inquiries from other departments, etc.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of solid buying experience acquiring final products at fashion brands or department stores.
• Highly quantitative and comfortable using spreadsheets, Excel, and doing retail math.
• Previous experience managing OTB is preferred.
• Strong analytical and logical skills.
• Previous luxury and resale knowledge will be a plus.
• Need to have a strong sense of team as you will be working closely with other buyers; being positive and able to take feedback well is important.
• Ability to organize and multi-task is important; buying has multiple tasks that need to be completed efficiently throughout the day/week.
• Should be research-minded and detail-oriented.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment while maintaining a positive, ownership-focused mindset.
• Ability to operate fully remotely and digitally.
• Ability to work from home in a professional and rigorous way.
• Excellent English in both verbal and written communications.
• Ownership mentality, highly organized, detail-oriented, and ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Ability and willingness to quickly and efficiently adapt in a rapidly changing start-up environment.
• Long-term commitment and grow with the company.

Requirements

• Your resume must be in English; otherwise, it won't be considered.