Location: Orange County, CA
*Relocation stipend offered*
We’re seeking a strategic, customer-focused Senior Buyer to lead product strategy and assortment planning across women’s wovens, dresses, and essentials. This is an opportunity for a commercially minded retail leader who can anticipate customer demand, drive profitable growth, and develop a high-performing buying team.
What You’ll Do
- Develop pre-season product strategies and assortment plans aligned with financial and merchandising goals.
- Own merchandise performance for assigned categories, using analysis to refine forecasts and implement corrective actions.
- Partner with planning teams to optimize inventory, improve margin, and reduce markdown risk.
- Lead seasonal assortment presentations and execute promotional, floorset, and marketing initiatives.
- Build and maintain strong vendor relationships, including negotiating costs, deliveries, and brand strategies.
- Collaborate with design, product development, visual, marketing, and planning partners.
- Lead, coach, and develop Buyers, Associate Buyers, and Assistant Buyers.
What You’ll Bring
- 3–5 years of retail buying experience in a specialty or department-store environment.
- Strong knowledge of merchandising, assortment planning, forecasting, pricing, gross margin, open-to-buy, markup, and turnover.
- Experience leading teams and developing talent.
- Excellent analytical, communication, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Advanced proficiency with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
