Urban Outfitters Senior Buyer - Men's Wovens

Role Summary

Urban Outfitters is looking for a Senior Buyer in Men's Wovens. You will be the architect of a customer-obsessed product mix that is bold, ahead of the curve, and commercially explosive.

If your decade of experience is backed by a relentless focus on data and a genuine, infectious passion for youth culture, it's time to drive a retail resurgence. This is your platform. Join us, and let’s shape what’s next—together!

Role Responsibilities

 

Visionary Assortment Strategy

• Architect the Mix: Create a balanced, brand-defining assortment by translating raw customer feedback, macro trends, and deep dives into the market. 
• Drive Key Item & Core Strength: You own the key item strategy, especially for viral fits and core blocks, to drive max sales and profit. Crush our core business while constantly dropping fashion newness, testing new silhouettes, and leading strategic online expansion to snatch up those web-exclusive wins.

Cultural and Trend Forecasting

• Be the Pulse of Youth Culture: You need to be obsessed with fashion, style, and cultural movements. Watch the shows, read everything, and own the social conversation to stay at the cutting edge of Men's Apparel micro-trends
• Translate Trends into Action: Spot emerging trends before they blow up and instantly turn that insight into actionable, relevant product opportunities that define the season.

Strategic Financial Leadership

• Own the Business: Proactively manage the Open to Buy (OTB) and use real-time trends to execute timely reorders, cancellations, and markdown strategies to maximize that sweet profitability.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Be a data champion. Analyze velocity, attributes, returns (with a focus on fit!), and markdowns to constantly optimize the assortment and mentor your team on using insights—not just gut feelings—to drive growth.

Other Details:

• Work Location: Its always sunny in Philadelphia! You'll work at our beautiful 10 acre waterfront campus 5 days a week
• Reports to: DMM
• Manages: Assistant Buyers, Associate Buyers, and/or Buyers

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Role Qualifications

What You Bring 

• Experience: 9+ years in a fast-paced buying role, with major experience in a high-volume category. Bonus points if you’ve scaled a private label line.
• Education: A degree in Fashion, Merchandising, or the street smarts equivalent that shows you understand the industry inside and out.
• Analytical Power: You’ve got full command of retail stats (IMU%, MD%, GM%, WOS, OTB, etc.) and can turn complex data into a crystal-clear business strategy.
• Cultural Fluency: A deep, demonstrated understanding of the target customer. Every product decision is a deliberate step to meet, and blow past, their expectations.
• Leadership & Influence: You build trust, inspire your cross-functional partners (Design, Planning, Production, Sourcing), and can communicate complex strategy to leadership without blinking. You're a mentor who develops junior talent and fosters a customer-centric, trend-responsive team culture.

 

 

If you are ready to apply your experience to one of the most exciting transformations in retail, come hang. Let's build the future of youth culture together!

 

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The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.