Majid Al Futtaim invites you to join us in our quest to create great moments for everyone, everyday! We are the leading shopping mall, residential communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, serving over 560 million visitors a year. For the past two decades, we have shaped the consumer landscape across the region, transforming the way people shop, live and play, while maintaining a strong sustainability track record and the largest mall in the world to attain LEED Gold EBOM Certification. We have over 40,000 team members in 15 international markets representing over 100 nationalities \xe2\x80\x93 all keeping the customer at the heart of everything we do. If you enjoy being BOLD, PASSIONATE and TOGETHER, then Majid Al Futtaim is the destination for you. Role Purpose: The Senior Buyer is responsible for sourcing and buying at optimum cost, quality and availability, product ranges that meet customer needs thereby maximizing profits and providing a commercially viable range of merchandise for MAF Lifestyle business. The Senior Buyer will be responsible for supporting the General Manager \xe2\x80\x93 Planning & Merchandising in defining and presenting short and long-term strategic approaches, future growth opportunities and areas of risk for the business with regards to brand assortment, ranging, products, positioning inventory and margins.
Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to the following: Operational Excellence:

• Formulate a suitable buying strategy, approach and plan in line with Brand and MAF Fashion guidelines

. \xe2\x80\xa2 Direct and manage various functional aspects of vendor sourcing/ development, contract negotiation, purchasing, liaising with supply chain and warehouse to ensure optimum efficiency & performance of the function.

• Ensure that commercial, yet profitable product ranges are developed and bought in order to maximise profit and sales

. \xe2\x80\xa2 Ensure the OTB is built up by store, category and subcategory.

• Manage and control, in conjunction with the GM, all aspects of stock to achieve reduced lost sales, improved buying and balanced product mix through careful and rigorous buying.

Manage brand portfolio for category, partner with planning to develop recommendations for brand portfolio adjustments (introduction/ discontinuations, increase/decrease) and space allocation per brand/ category, to maximize profit.

• Communicate launching pack, highlighting in particular any special styles bought, to the Marketing, Visual Merchandising teams, and Store Management.

Financial & Standards:

• Contribute to development of annual business plans, associated budgets and buying strategies, monitor performance against this, initiating corrective action where necessary to ensure operations are conducted within the agreed financial parameters and targets are achieved.

• Responsible for achieving set financial targets in relation to all buying activities, OTB, margins, sell thru and markdowns

. \xe2\x80\xa2 Negotiate product pricing, cost of shipment and payment terms, intake margin and terms with local vendors, taking into consideration business and cost effectiveness as the main consideration.

• Maintain profitable relationships with existing suppliers and monitor adherence to all contractual terms.

Customer:

• Stay abreast of customer trends, demographic shifts and other influences to ensure buying decisions closely relate to customer preferences contributing to the customer experience.
• Conduct Fashion trends and product training of new launches / seasons to the store teams as and when required.
• Nurture strong working relationship with the Planning, Finance and Operations teams to drive common business goals.
• Work closely with the Visual Merchandising, Marketing and Communication teams in order to develop and deliver the appropriate brand image to the market and customer.