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Headquartered in Singapore, with more than 15,000 employees operating from offices around the world, SHEIN is committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all, promoting its industry-leading, on-demand production methodology, for a smarter, future-ready industry. \nPosition Summary \nWe’re seeking a full-time Buyer for our Los Angeles-based corporate office. NYA SZN is seeking a Buyer, Trend & Assortment to help drive the commercial product strategy of the brand through trend intelligence, assortment opportunities, recolor strategy and customer insights. As NYA SZN continues to scale, this role will help ensure the assortment remains fashion forward, commercially relevant and closely connected to the evolving needs of the NYA SZN customer. The Buyer will continuously evaluate market trends, competitive activity, customer behavior and product performance to identify what NYA SZN should pursue next, what successful products should be expanded, and where opportunities exist within the assortment. A major focus of this role will be developing a disciplined recolor and repeat strategy that allows NYA SZN to maximize proven winners while continuing to introduce relevant newness. The Buyer will also help establish and evolve the brand's essential product offering, creating greater balance between fashion newness and repeatable core business. This role requires a strong fashion eye combined with commercial instincts, analytical thinking and a deep understanding of the NYA SZN customer.\nJob Responsibilities \nTrend & Market Intelligence\nOwn ongoing trend research across fashion, retail, social media, culture and the competitive landscape.\nIdentify emerging trends, silhouettes, colors, fabrics, prints, details and styling shifts relevant to the NYA SZN customer.\nTranslate broader market trends into clear product opportunities for NYA SZN.\nMaintain awareness of competitor assortments, launches, pricing, best sellers and emerging product strategies.\nLead regular competitive shopping across digital and physical retail environments.\nDistinguish short-term trend moments from opportunities that can evolve into repeatable NYA SZN product.\nPresent concise trend and market recommendations to the Brand Director and broader team.\nRecolor & Repeat Strategy\nOwn the identification of recolor and repeat opportunities across the NYA SZN assortment.\nAnalyze product performance, including sales, CTR, conversion, inventory and customer response, to determine which products should be expanded.\nRecommend strategic recolors based on product performance, seasonality, trend movement and customer demand.\nBuild and maintain a forward-looking recolor pipeline to ensure proven winners continue to generate productivity.\nIdentify opportunities to evolve successful silhouettes through color, fabrication, print or relevant product updates.\nPartner with Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain and vendors to support timely execution of approved recolor and repeat opportunities.\nAssortment & Essentials Strategy\nIdentify assortment gaps and emerging product opportunities across NYA SZN categories.\nHelp establish and evolve a clear assortment of NYA SZN essentials and repeatable hero products.\nEvaluate the balance between fashion newness, proven winners, recolors and essential product.\nIdentify opportunities to build greater depth around high-performing silhouettes, categories and customer needs.\nEnsure key seasonal fashion moments and wardrobe needs are represented within the assortment.\nPartner with the Brand Director on monthly and seasonal assortment priorities.\nProduct Performance & Customer Insights\nMonitor product performance following launch to understand what is resonating with the NYA SZN customer.\nIdentify patterns across winning and underperforming products and translate those learnings into future assortment recommendations.\nUse customer reviews, search behavior, product engagement and available performance data to identify product opportunities.\nEstablish a consistent feedback loop from launch performance into future assortment decisions.\nRecommend when products should be repeated, recolored, evolved or exited.\nCross-Functional Partnership\nPartner closely with the Brand Director to translate brand and business priorities into actionable assortment opportunities.\nWork with Merchandising and Planning to understand category performance, inventory position and business opportunities.\nPartner with the Senior Fit & Technical Specialist to ensure repeat and recolor opportunities maintain established NYA SZN fit standards.\nWork closely with the Project Specialist to ensure approved product opportunities, recolors and repeats move through the development calendar on time.\nCommunicate product opportunities and assortment needs clearly to Supply Chain, suppliers, vendors and external partners. \nSupport alignment across teams so that trend, commercial opportunity, fit and execution work together as one product strategy.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nNYA SZN consistently identifies relevant trends early and translates them into commercially viable product opportunities.\nRecolors and repeats become a disciplined and meaningful contributor to the business.\nProven winners are maximized rather than unnecessarily replaced with new product.\nThe assortment maintains a strong balance between fashion newness and dependable NYA SZN essentials.\nProduct decisions increasingly reflect customer behavior and performance data.\nAssortment gaps are identified proactively rather than reactively.\nNYA SZN develops stronger repeatable hero products and recognizable product categories.\nTrend and market intelligence consistently translates into actionable recommendations for the business\nJob Requirements \nBachelor's degree in Fashion Merchandising, Buying, Business, Retail or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n3-5 years of experience in women's fashion buying, merchandising, assortment strategy or a related commercial fashion role.\nStrong understanding of women's fashion trends and the contemporary and fast-fashion landscape.\nDemonstrated ability to identify trends and translate them into commercially relevant product opportunities.\nStrong analytical skills with experience using sales, product and customer data to inform assortment 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