TITLE: Coordinator/Senior Coordinator, Buyer & Merchandiser
DEPARTEMENT: Consumer Products
REPORTS TO: Manager, Consumer Products
Position Summary
Tricolore Sports, the official store of the Montreal Canadiens, is seeking a full-time buyer. The bilingual buyer is responsible for overseeing merchandising, purchasing of consumer products as well as maintaining customer supplier relationships.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties
- Purchasing of licensed apparel, accessories and memorabilia
- Maintaining business relationships with suppliers
- Overseeing merchandising of stores
- Forecasting and inventory management
- Creation of PO’s
- Sustain communication with operations department
- Working with other departments on various retail initiatives
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
- 3-5 years of purchasing and/or retail experience in apparel/fashion
- Bachelor’s degree (Commerce, administration or relative field)
- Must be fluent in both French and English (written and spoken)
- Knowledge of the sports licensed business industry
- Insight on new apparel trends
- Strong negotiator
- Merchandising, reporting and financial skills
- E-Commerce knowledge an asset
- Driven, looking to succeed in an exciting work environment
- Competent with MAC and PC Windows applications (Excel, Word, Outlook)
- Retail software management knowledge (Lightspeed or others)
CV’s will be accepted until the 30th of September 2015.