Buyer Jobs

Company Description

Join our team to achieve your full career potential! We are proactive, outside the box thinkers and doers who stop at nothing to make the iconic Laura and Melanie Lyne brands shine! Privately owned and based in Laval, Quebec, with a strong vision for innovation and optimizing the employee and client experiences, we continue to help generations of Canadian women to look and feel their best.

As the Buyer you will contribute to Laura’s success by managing product aligned to the brand and ensuring compliance with product standards. The Buyer achieves all key financial objectives for the categories, by partnering with the Design, Fit, Production and Planning Teams, in line with the overall brand vision in both private label programs and line-vendor product selection.

How will you support the team?

• Partner with Production team to ensure timely delivery of goods and targeted GM by providing seasonal architecture, identifying target retail prices at the beginning of the seasonal development process.
• Build partnerships with line-vendors to promote their development of brand-appropriate product within the vendors’ expertise.
• Demonstrate strong merchant sense through product assortment, pricing, quantification, problem solving and all other business management decisions.
• Work with the Directors of Merchandising and Directors of Design on the short and long-term strategies for the brand including the general merchandising plan, assortments planning and the pricing strategy for the category.
• Collaborate with the Design Team to establish brand trends, ensure wardrobability of the global product assortment and the development of best product (quality, fit and style).
• Make relevant recommendations to partnering departments for future product development and selection, including recommendations as to fabrics, styling, pricing, quantification, flow of goods, promotional and markdown strategy, and overall brand vision.
• Participate in fit sessions to ensure product vision is executed.
• Achieve all key financial objectives established in the annual category budget such for the Sales Plan, Gross Margin %, Dollar Plan, Stock Turns and End of season Inventory Plan.
• Make recommendations to the Director of Merchandising to ensure the appropriate items are photographed and featured and ensure the timely delivery of samples of those items for photography purposes.
• Assist the Marketing, E-commerce and Visual teams with the development of editorial content as requested by those teams.
• Take appropriate action with regards to quality issues or inadequately performing merchandise, including the return of goods to vendors, request for markdown allowance, etc.

Qualifications

The people who thrive with us have:

• Good knowledge of merchandising systems and Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience in product development and line-buying
• Bilingualism
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• 5-10 years experience in a similar position
• A strong fashion flair

Don't miss this opportunity to join an exceptional team!

Additional Information

Laura Canada is an iconic and innovative family-owned retailer housing two leading women’s fashion apparel brands, Laura and Melanie Lyne. Based in Laval, Quebec, we design, produce, market and distribute quality apparel across Canada. We proudly employ over 2,000 dedicated team members and operate more than 140 locations and two online stores. We attribute our success to the unwavering commitment of our team to delivering outstanding customer experiences while embodying our shared values of integrity, respect, teamwork, performance, and passion.

At Laura Canada, we believe that delivering an outstanding customer experience is driven by our commitment to an outstanding employee experience.