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Senior Buyer Jobs in New York City Metropolitan Area at Nili Lotan New York
Title: Senior Buyer
Company: Nili Lotan New York
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Role Overview:
Luxury Fashion Nili Lotan is looking for a Senior Buyer to join our team. The Senior Buyer will be responsible for partnering with the Director of Buying to build and execute merchandise strategies across the DTC channel, meeting or exceeding financial plans across all retail doors and web. This role acts as a key cross-functional leader, partnering closely with Planning, Design, Production, and Leadership to translate seasonal vision into a commercially successful, brand-right assortment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of a balanced, brand-appropriate assortment, considering fashion direction, quality, fit, price architecture, style/SKU count, and key item depth for order review and market presentation.
- Own the end-to-end buying process for assigned categories, from pre-market planning and production collaboration on line development, through door-by-door assortment buying, to presenting the final buy and investment strategy to leadership for sign-off.
- Build and own seasonal order review materials, including topline investment summaries and door-by-door allocation across all retail doors and DTC/web.
- Conduct competitive and market analysis to identify trends, whitespace, and pricing opportunities relative to the luxury landscape.
- Partner with Planning to develop OTB plans and pricing strategy, and execute purchase orders against financial targets.
- Analyze in-season performance (ST%, AUR, sell-through vs. Plan and vs. LY) by door and channel; identify opportunities and react with timely reorders, re-cuts, or markdowns.
- Conduct sizing and curve analysis using historical performance data to inform future buy strategy.
- Partner with Production to track delivery timelines, resolve issues, and maintain quality standards.
- Synthesize store and field feedback into actionable recommendations for Design, Production, and Leadership.
- Present strategy, performance, and buy recommendations in business review meetings, validating point of view using data and analysis.
- Train, mentor, and develop Assistant Buyer, fostering a culture of continual learning.
- Ensure effective, ongoing communication with store teams and field partners, incorporating their feedback into future seasonal strategy.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 6–8 years of retail buying experience; luxury or contemporary women’s RTW experience strongly preferred.
- Experience in vertical full price and e-commerce buying strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
- Strategic thinker able to move fluidly between high-level strategy and SKU-level detail.
- Balanced analytical and creative mindset, comfortable using data to inform product and business decisions.
- Highly organized, adaptable, and able to manage multiple categories/doors in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong Excel skills; experience with retail analytics platforms.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with experience presenting to senior/creative leadership.
What we offer:
Salary: While the published salary range is a good faith reflection of the targeted salary level for the position, Nili Lotan reserves the right to pay outside of the published range. In addition, there is a comprehensive and generous benefits package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid time off program, Summer Fridays, Disability, Retirement Plan , Clthing Allowance and Employee Discount program.
Nili Lotan is committed to building a diverse workforce. We believe diversity in all its forms – gender, age, nationality, culture, religious beliefs and sexual orientation – enriches the workplace. It opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to adapt to a changing world.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background.
About Nili Lotan:
Nili Lotan, after a very successful career leading design teams at top American fashion houses including Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, and Nautica, launches her own namesake label in 2003, designing a wardrobe of luxurious, chic, and timeless pieces for today’s woman, grounded in the belief that a wardrobe should function as an extension of oneself. Her philosophy is that clothes should be clean, sophisticated and functional, offering elements for self-expression. Lotan’s design process is highly intuitive. She is inspired by women with a strong sense of personal style, and draws from art, music and rock n’ roll to design her collection. By designing pieces she herself wants to wear, Lotan’s collection instinctively resonate with a woman’s lifestyle. Since its debut, the brand has expanded beyond womenswear to include a men’s collection. Nili Lotan has several retail stores in the United States and the collection can be found at upscale retailers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.
