Anthropologie Assistant Buyer - Decorative Textiles

Anthropologie•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

Anthropologie Home is seeking an Assistant Buyer to assist the Buyer in creating an exciting, timely product assortment for retail and direct businesses that meets or exceeds the department’s sales volume and profit goals. The role supports assortment planning and execution, product development, purchase order and merchandise-flow management, vendor onboarding, business analysis, and communication with merchant, cross-functional, and vendor partners.

Requirements

2–3 years of experience in a buying role at a larger-scale brand or company.
Understanding of the Anthropologie target customer and ability to select appropriate products and trends that appeal to the customer and meet expectations.
Fundamental understanding of business statistics, including IMU%, MD%, GM%, selloff, WOS, and OTB.
Professional verbal and written communication style, strong presentation and organizational skills, and a high sense of urgency.
Ability to prioritize immediate and long-term business needs.
Experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Ability to learn new computer systems quickly and retain information.

Responsibilities

Work with the Buyer to determine the overall product mix for buying areas, ensuring the assortment is customer-oriented and supports the profit plan.
Support daily operations within the designated buying area and partner with the Buyer on required tasks.
Collaborate with the Buyer and vendor partners on product-development-heavy classes.
Help determine the mix of market and private-label products and place buys accurately and on time.
Maintain accurate buy sheets by class, month, and season, and ensure purchase-order, style-management, and reporting systems are aligned and accurate.
Enter, update, manage, and organize purchase orders to support timely delivery and product quality.
Manage weekly and monthly merchandise flow, including purchase-order delivery timelines, inventory-flow dates, and weekly tracking.
Set up new vendors and assist with onboarding, including sending routing guides and pre-ticketing information.
Prioritize and respond urgently to requests from merchant and cross-functional teams.
Apply retail math fundamentals, communicate weekly and monthly business notes and reactions, and analyze seasonal vendor sales.
Proactively share opinions in cross-functional and merchant meetings and develop relationships with market and internal partners.
Work with merchandising and styling teams to align major programs and concepts, buys, and deliveries with the merchandise cadence.
Assist the buying team with proofreading digital, mailer, and catalog copy.
Build productive partnerships and use strong listening, oral, and written communication skills.
Manage email communications across a diverse vendor database and update the manager on vendor feedback.