Buyer - Supplements/HBA
About The Position
This role involves purchasing specific product lines such as vitamins, supplements, herbs, and natural body care products. The primary goal is to maintain appropriate in-stock levels, optimize inventory turns, ensure a steady supply of desired products, and adequately accommodate specials. The buyer will also evaluate vendors, investigate new supply sources, review promotional offerings, and coordinate sales promotions. Accurate price labeling, providing product information, staying updated on industry trends, negotiating with vendors for samples and allowances, reviewing invoices, monitoring product min/max settings, reviewing margins, and participating in inventory counts and meetings are also key aspects of the role.
Requirements
- Discovering customer needs and providing service in a prompt and courteous manner.
- Providing a rewarding shopping experience with accurate labeling of product shelf tags, price stickers and/or signs.
- Effectively managing inventory by pulling back stock and re-pricing goods while processing new product deliveries.
- Sharing working knowledge of wellness offerings and trends.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to negotiate with vendors/brokers.
- Ability to review and correct invoices.
- Ability to monitor and adjust product min/max settings.
- Ability to review margins and make recommendations.
- Participation in inventory counts and price change projects.
- Participation in staff and vendor meetings.
Nice To Haves
- Staying abreast of developments in natural products industry through reading trade publications and talking with brokers.
Responsibilities
- Purchase specific product lines (vitamins, supplements, herbs, and natural body care products) to maintain appropriate in-stock levels, inventory turns, to ensure a steady supply of products customers want and to adequately accommodate specials.
- Evaluate vendors and investigate new sources of supply for recommendation to Wellness Manager.
- Review vendor and broker promotional offerings and work with the department management in the development, implementation and coordination of sales promotions.
- Ensure accurate, up-to-date price labeling (or shelf tags) for department items.
- Provide product information to customers, staff and sampling/demo staff.
- Stay abreast of developments in natural products industry through reading trade publications and talking with brokers.
- Negotiate with vendors/brokers for demo samples and allowances and hand off to sample/demo staff for their implementation.
- Review all invoices and makes corrections to cost, size, price, etc., where required.
- Monitor and when necessary adjust product min/max settings to ensure adequate amounts of product are available while avoiding overstocking.
- Regularly review margins and make recommendations for adjustments to department management.
- Participate in inventory counts and price change projects.
- Participate in the organization of staff and vendor meetings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
