Ecommerce Assistant Buyer, Temp
About The Position
The Assistant E-Commerce Buyer is responsible for supporting the tactical execution of product buying, assortment planning, and inventory management across La Jolla Group's owned e-commerce sites and marketplace channels. This role serves as a key partner to the Director of E-Commerce Buying & Merchandising, owning product readiness through seasonal asset review for style accuracy and managing pick-up shoots to ensure complete, commercially accurate PDP imagery is ready before season launch. The Assistant E-Commerce Buyer supports assortment execution, inventory management, and cross-functional coordination to ensure seasonal strategies are executed accurately and on time. This role operates upstream of site presentation, owning product accuracy and launch readiness, while the E-Commerce Site Merchandiser owns on-site presentation, sequencing, and optimization. As a member of the Plan Center of Excellence (CoE), this role serves as the operational backbone of the buying function, reporting directly to the Director of E-Commerce Buying & Merchandising.
Requirements
- Understanding of e-commerce buying, assortment planning, inventory management, and sell-through analysis.
- Knowledge of apparel product details, including trim, colorway, silhouette, and style accuracy.
- Familiarity with DTC e-commerce and marketplace product photography standards.
- Strong merchant eye with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to identify product inaccuracies across line sheets, purchase orders, samples, and photography assets.
- Proficiency with Shopify, and Excel or Google Sheets preferred.
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Self-directed, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Collaborative approach when working with studio, merchandising, planning, marketing, and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Assist in seasonal and ongoing buy plans across all e-commerce and marketplace channels in alignment with open-to-buy (OTB) budgets set by the Director.
- Translate assortment strategy into purchase orders: accurate style, color, size, and quantity selections reflecting channel-specific demand signals.
- Maintain the active assortment on owned sites and marketplace platforms — managing style adds, deletes, and status changes throughout the season.
- Monitor inventory levels by SKU and channel; flag stockouts, overstock, and aging inventory with recommended corrective actions.
- Support the Director in developing channel-specific assortment segmentation across DTC, Amazon, and third-party marketplace platforms.
- Review final seasonal product photography assets prior to site launch, evaluating for trim accuracy, colorway correctness, and style representation against approved line sheets and purchase orders.
- Flag discrepancies — incorrect hardware, wrong colorway, misrepresented silhouette, missing SKUs — and escalate to the studio and product teams with specific, actionable corrections.
- Own the pick-up shoot process: identify imagery gaps across the seasonal assortment, prioritize by launch urgency and revenue impact, and coordinate shoot scheduling with the studio team.
- Assist in briefing studio on pick-up shoot requirements: specific styles, colorways, on-model vs. flat, and any marketplace-specific imagery standards.
- Assist in reviewing and approving pick-up shoot selects for commercial accuracy before assets are routed to the Site Merchandiser for PDP publishing.
- Maintain the pre-season imagery readiness tracker: style count, shot status, approved/pending/reshooting, and estimated live date by category.
- Coordinate sample pulls for seasonal shoots and pick-up shoots between the buying team, warehouse, and creative studio.
- Maintain the sample log: check-in/check-out status, shoot schedules, return timelines, and loss tracking.
- Communicate incoming sample shipment timelines to the studio team to support efficient shoot scheduling and minimize production delays.
- Manage post-shoot sample disposition: return-to-warehouse, donation, or disposal per company policy.
- Pull and synthesize weekly buy and sell-through reports; identify SKU-level trends and escalate risks and opportunities to the Director.
- Assist in tracking and maintaining OTB position by category, brand, and channel; surface variances versus plan with supporting data.
- Support the Director in seasonal hindsight analyses and post-mortem reviews that inform future buy strategy.
- Maintain buying and inventory trackers with current, accurate data to support planning meetings and leadership reporting.
- Partner with demand planning to align buy quantities with inventory and sales forecasts across channels.
- Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure product availability aligns with campaign calendars and promotional events.
- Hand off approved, imagery-complete product records to the Site Merchandiser for PDP publishing and on-site sequencing.
- Work with operations and fulfillment teams to resolve product setup issues, inventory discrepancies, and marketplace feed errors.
- Support the Director in preparing materials for leadership and cross-functional business reviews as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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