Free People Buying Assistant - Accessories

Role Summary:
Free People is looking for a Buying Assistant to assist the buyer to create an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail, direct and wholesale businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department.

Role Responsibilities:
Role Responsibilities

• Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and

developing partnerships with the assistant or associate buyer on all
necessary tasks

• Managing the flow of merchandise and updating merchant boards
• Rudimentary understanding of retail math
• Sharing and communicating thoughts/opinions to managers or business

groups as a whole

• Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders in

all systems (MTS, IP and Blue Cherry) to ensure timely delivery

• Ensuring accuracy in all systems
• Communicating late deliveries to the buying and sales team
• Setting up new vendors and send them routing guides and pre-ticketing

information

• Developing cross functional relationships with market and internal

partners

• Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both

the merchant and cross functional teams

• Assisting the buying team to proof catalog copy
• Identifying photos on the Free People website and wholesale website to be

reshot to drive sales

Organizing and cataloguing samples

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Role Qualifications:
Role Qualifications

• Strong communication, time management, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritize projects and multitask
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint)
• Ability to grasp multiple systems quickly
• Detail oriented
• Creative thinker
• Retail or previous buying experience preferred

The Perks:
URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement:
URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.