Sr Buyer
About The Position
The Senior Buyer is based onsite at Aaron’s Galleria office in Atlanta, Georgia. This role plans and executes sales budgets and assortment plans for assigned categories, with responsibility for category management, assortment planning, supplier management, sourcing, inventory management, pricing, promotions, and product lifecycle management. The Senior Buyer tracks product trends and proactively manages the assortment to meet consumer needs, while working cross-functionally across the business. The role calls for strong retail category-management and assortment-planning experience, analytical and project-management skills, the ability to manage multiple projects, and interpersonal and team-development skills. Aaron’s is a sales and lease-to-own retailer offering specialty items including furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances, and accessories in the United States and Canada. The company describes its workplace as team-oriented, high-energy, and recognition-based, and presents the role as an opportunity to develop a career and learn about multiple aspects of the business.
Requirements
- Firm understanding of category management and assortment-planning practices, including SKU rationalization, markdowns, and sales reporting.
- Proven experience gathering and understanding product trends.
- Creativity to support product innovation and newness.
- Strong project-management and communication skills.
- Proven vendor-negotiation skills.
- Attention to detail while understanding broader objectives and strategy.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, and adapt to changes in project scope.
- Ability to build and foster cross-departmental partnerships to achieve common objectives.
- Self-directed and highly driven, with strong business sense and professional presence.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel, and related reporting tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in business or a related quantitative field.
- At least 5 years of senior-level retail merchant experience.
Nice To Haves
- MBA.
- Experience managing product categories in an omnichannel environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute category strategies, including assortment plans and merchandising tactics, to achieve sales and margin goals.
- Drive innovation and newness in the product assortment.
- Understand industry product trends and opportunities.
- Manage supplier relationships and reduce product costs through fact-based negotiations.
- Drive category strategy across sourcing, assortment and product mix, inventory management, promotions, and pricing using fact-based decision-making.
- Conduct regular in-depth category reviews to evaluate assortment performance and develop plans for sustainable sales and margin growth.
- Maximize category productivity through assortment rationalization, lifecycle management, and management of inventory position and performance for store sets.
- Conduct competitive shops to assess assortment mix, in-store merchandising, pricing, and promotional offers in retail and rent-to-own channels.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to drive the business, seek others’ ideas, and value differing perspectives.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, and holidays.
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with contribution matching.
- Career training.
- Performance incentives.
- Advancement opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
