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October 11, 2024
Laura Canada
Laval
FULL TIME
Assistant to the Category Manager
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.
Job Description
As the Assistant to the Category Manager, you will contribute to Laura’s success by supporting the Category Manager at every level of the merchandise buying process, consistent with division strategy. You will work on daily activities such as analysis, preparation of reports, and procuring merchandise alongside the Category Manager.
How will you support the team?
Qualifications
The people who thrive with us have:
Additional Information
Laura Canada is a family-owned retailer housing two iconic women’s fashion apparel brands, Laura and Melanie Lyne. Based in Laval, Quebec, we design, produce, market and sell our fashion collections across Canada. We proudly employ over 2,000 dedicated team members and operate more than 140 retail store locations as well as operating laura.ca and melanielyne.com. We attribute our success to the unwavering commitment of our teams to delivering outstanding customer experiences while embodying our shared values of integrity, respect, teamwork, performance, and passion. We believe that delivering an outstanding customer experience is driven by our commitment to an outstanding employee experience.
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.
Job Description
As the Assistant to the Category Manager, you will contribute to Laura’s success by supporting the Category Manager at every level of the merchandise buying process, consistent with division strategy. You will work on daily activities such as analysis, preparation of reports, and procuring merchandise alongside the Category Manager.
How will you support the team?
- Assist the Category Manager in managing OTB by class/supplier on an on-going basis.
- Provide Category Manager with monthly and, upon request, seasonal analysis of the business for planning purposes.
- Create Storyboards.
- Create Purchase Orders and execute modifications (i.e. cost adjustments).
- Follow up on repeats for the Category Manager in a timely manner (i.e. inquiries about availability, discount and deliveries).
- Follow-up and maintain professional relationship with vendors.
- Execute Re-SKU’s and recalls.
- Review the Style Cards or V-listing weekly to monitor performance of each style and recommend action to Category Manager (i.e. repeats, fit issues, quality issues).
- Follow up on delivery and shipping of orders and reports to Category Manager any delay or merchandise issue.
- Communicate with the Quality Assurance and Fit Departments as required on any quality control issues and approvals.
- Support store requests (missing UPC codes, special orders, etc.).
- Call vendors/stores/Distribution Centre for samples for Marketing and Product Knowledge material and prepare/organize all swatches, books and samples.
Qualifications
The people who thrive with us have:
- Related industry or equivalent experience
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Outlook)
- Good knowledge of merchandising systems.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong organization skills
- The ability to communicate with our out of province suppliers in English
Additional Information
Laura Canada is a family-owned retailer housing two iconic women’s fashion apparel brands, Laura and Melanie Lyne. Based in Laval, Quebec, we design, produce, market and sell our fashion collections across Canada. We proudly employ over 2,000 dedicated team members and operate more than 140 retail store locations as well as operating laura.ca and melanielyne.com. We attribute our success to the unwavering commitment of our teams to delivering outstanding customer experiences while embodying our shared values of integrity, respect, teamwork, performance, and passion. We believe that delivering an outstanding customer experience is driven by our commitment to an outstanding employee experience.
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