Planning and Merchant Operations Associate

Buck Mason•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

At Buck Mason, we believe in timeless style and quality craftsmanship. Our mission is to create classic American clothing that embodies simplicity and authenticity. We're looking for an Assistant Buyer to join our merchandising team and help keep the engine running from buy through delivery. This is a hands-on role for someone early in their merchandising career who loves products, lives in spreadsheets, and gets a real kick out of clean data. You'll get exposure across the full merchandising lifecycle — from buy sheets to POs to post-launch reporting — while learning the craft alongside senior buyers and planners. Product and brand obsession is a must.

Requirements

2-4 years of experience in merchandising, buying, planning, or merchandising operations (relevant internships count)
Strong Excel skills — pivot tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, comfortable working with large data sets
Detail-oriented to a fault — you catch the typo, the missing SKU, the wrong delivery date
Organized and proactive; able to juggle multiple workstreams without dropping the ball
Clear written and verbal communicator who knows how to ask the right questions
Passion for product, process, and the Buck Mason brand

Nice To Haves

Exposure to PLM, ERP, or inventory management systems is a plus; willingness to learn is a must

Responsibilities

Support buying/planning managers in building and maintaining seasonal buy sheets, line lists, and assortment plans
Prep materials for line reviews, and seasonal hand-offs — pulling decks, taking notes, owning follow-ups
Maintain product information across merchandising systems (style numbers, descriptions, attributes, classifications)
Partner with product development, design and production team to ensure all product information is aligned and updated across all platforms; chase missing information to keep timelines on track
Create, issue, and maintain purchase orders with accuracy on styles, quantities, costs
Process PO revisions, cancellations, and extensions; communicate updates to cross-functional teams
Own SKU setup — making sure every style is correctly built in our systems before POs go out the door
Build and distribute recurring weekly and monthly reports on sell-through, in-stock position, on-order, and core KPIs
Pull ad-hoc data for the merchandising team — best/worst sellers, size curves, vendor performance, sample status
Help maintain the merchandising calendar and flag at-risk milestones
Surface trends and anomalies in the data — we want someone who looks past the numbers and asks "why"