Assistant Buyer

Visionworks • San Antonio, TX

3d • Remote

About The Position

Our assistant buyers are entrepreneurial, motivated, business owners who strive to present our customers with thoughtfully and responsibly curated assortments. They develop, maintain, and implement frame assortments for each network brand, by segment and capacity. The Assistant Buyer will partner with the Buyers to create an assortment strategy at the segment/cluster level. They analyze and manage the process of reviewing frame sales by collection, by network brand and segment, to meet GMROI, sales mix and initial mark up objectives.

Requirements

• High School Diploma, Associate degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three - Five (5) years of related work experience
• Strong organizational skills and ability to execute detailed tasks and processes
• Strong customer focus
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including PowerPoint and Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong retail math skills
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs
• Strong critical thinking; enjoys solving complex problems
• Ability to think logically in following procedures and instructions
• Commitment to accuracy
• Detail oriented with strong organizational/time management skills
• Ability to handle multiple assignments/tasks efficiently with interruptions and deadlines
• Strong customer focus
• Ability to work collaboratively with all areas within the Company
• Detail oriented with strong organizational/time management skills
• All Associates must comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as it pertains to disclosures of protected health information (PHI) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and HIPAA Privacy Policies and Procedures.
• As a component of job roles and responsibilities, Associates may have access to covered information, cardholder data or other confidential customer information which must be protected at all times.
• As a result, Associates must explicitly adhere to all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Privacy & Security Training Program.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of optimum assortments by category/collection to match assortment segmentation strategy, including store specific needs by capacity, sales volume, and demographics.
• Communicate and manage assortment changes in conjunction with the merchandising, inventory, and visual merchandising departments in the company.
• Analyze sales trends by frame collection by segment for each network brand, bi-annually, or as needed, to recommend merchandising assortment changes per cluster, to optimize profit dollars
• Assist buyers with selection and organization of samples for each category.
• Responsible for requesting all new samples and coordination of samples.
• Assist buyers with SKU attribute set up, partnering with vendors as needed
• Assist buyers with keying in orders, frame samples, selling reports and any other processes on an as needed basis.
• Respond to store questions and requests and take action to satisfy any customer or store issues

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree