Buyer I - Footwear

QVC•West Chester, PA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Working at QVC Group means joining a live social shopping company with incredible teams, ambitious projects and amazing careers. QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands - QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road. QVC & HSN has an exciting opportunity for a talented Buyer I (usually referred to as an Associate Buyer in industry) to join the Footwear team. The Buyer I will have ownership of a portion of the Buying Office’s business and take accountability for long term and short term strategic and financial planning, purchasing and managing sales objectives. Select products based on relevant trends and understand how to translate them into products/concept for multi-platform retail. Educate and communicate with vendors and cross-functional departments.

Requirements

3-5 years of corporate merchandise buying experience.
Passionate for people with great mentor skills to invest in others.

Responsibilities

Maintains the on-air assortment for assigned merchandise categories and building on air strategies.
Develop terms, and purchase items that will be successful and which exceed the expectations of our customers.
Analyze item, category, and other relevant on air sales to follow trends and react based on performance.
Analyze the productivity of each vendor and category within products of responsibility.
Evaluate customer-buying behaviors and identify trends.
Maintain a high level of product elevation and quality while selecting product.
Responsible for daily office functions (e.g., maintaining spreadsheets (can write advanced macros), item creation).
Help train the Intern and Assistant Buyer regarding daily office operations.
Handle Quality Assurance (QA) issues.
Demonstrate a high level of product expertise.
Partner and communicate with internal advocates to maximize efficiency of product lifecycle activities and manage the order process.
Establish relationships with DDGS, Quality Assurance, Category production, eCommerce, Legal, Social Marketing, Multi Channel Planning, Sales, and Planning to ensure products are presented to our customer properly.
Establish vendor relationships.
Responsible for vendor communication, education and preparation.
Return all vendor calls basis.
Give oral and written presentations.