Family Owned Since 1951. MaxMara is Italy’s largest fashion house with 9 Main Brands and more than 60 different Collections find common ground in quality, style and respect for the distinctive feature that make Max Mara Fashion Group one of the most famous worldwide.
Max Mara Fashion Group, with 41 companies and over 5,500 employees, operates in 105 countries has an ecosystem made of 44 Depts, including Fashion Design, Marketing, Operations, Retail, Stores, ICT, Architecture Design, Economics, BI, etc. in an Holistic approach to our Customers and leveraging all the new digital competences.
2007 Assistant Buyer –> Planner
Responsibilities:
- Assisting Senior buyer and Head of Merchandising in executing buys for 7 lines of MaxMara women’s wear for 17 company owned stores
- Managing orders and open to buy for Sunglasses and Perfume lines for all stores
- Attending collection presentations at headquarters in Italy to execute the buys
- Executing transfers of merchandise to optimize sell-thrus throughout territory
Key contributions:
- Initiated new procedures using Microsoft Excel that saved 90% of the time and 1/3 the manpower previously required, freeing up executives for higher level tasks
- Improved the accuracy of orders by 60% by implementing automated cross-checking system for comparing placed vs. received orders/shipments from Italy