Senior Executive, Buyer (Fashion)

Lazada (jakarta)
Jakarta
Indonesia 🇮🇩
Founded in 2012, Lazada Group is the leading eCommerce platform in Southeast Asia. We are accelerating progress in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam through commerce and technology. With the largest logistics and payments networks in the region, Lazada is a part of our consumers’ daily lives in the region and we aim to serve 300 million shoppers by 2030. Since 2016, Lazada is the Southeast Asia flagship platform of the Alibaba Group powered by its cutting-edge technology infrastructure.

About this position

Responsible for buying activities for Fashion category including merchandise planning, pricing and sales management, inventory management, and vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Analyze consumer buying patterns and predict future trends based on e-commerce sales big data
• Source targeted assortment from existing and new suppliers
• Negotiate on supply price to get a competitive price
• Review performance indicators (e.g. sales, discount levels, traffic and conversion rate)
• Write reports and forecast sales levels on a weekly and monthly basis for owning categories
• Manage product pricing
• Own product P&L, responsible for margin
• Participate in promotional activities and work with traffic team to develop sales for merchandises
• Manage timely entry and maintenance of purchase orders and final orders
• Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders
• Ensure availability and order of stocks proportionate to merchandise movements
• Meet suppliers and negotiate terms of contract
• Maintain relationships with existing suppliers and sourcing new suppliers for future products
• Contact suppliers in order or schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve issues

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
• Working experience in sourcing/purchase/retail in related categories
• Strong experience in sales & stock management
• Familiar with industry costs and strong demonstrated experience in price negotiations
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and negotiation skills
• Strong sales analysis and forecasting capabilities