Assistant Buyer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Minimum of one year of experience in retail buying
• Ability to build and maintain productive partnerships and demonstrate strong listening, oral, and written communication skills
• Strong organization and prioritizing skills
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
• Detail oriented
• Creative thinker
• Team player
• Proficient in Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint

Responsibilities

• Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the buyer on all necessary tasks
• Ownership of buying a product class within the buying area
• The ability to conceptually plan assortments that meet financial objectives
• Delegating and directing the daily activities of the assistants and provide direction to the team
• Prioritizing tasks and balancing the immediate and long term needs of the business
• Researching and executing development of product in the marketplace
• Personnel skills to work well with cross functional partners and team to achieve plans
• Working closely with planning to understand financial indicators to react and drive business
• Working with the buyer to learn to determine the overall mix of market and private label product for each buying area to ensure the final mix is ultimately customer oriented
• Working with buyer to place buys with conviction
• Learning from buying mistakes and applying those learnings to future buys
• Vocalizing opinions proactively in cross functional or larger merchant meetings
• Managing the flow of merchandise
• Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders to ensure timely delivery
• Communicating late deliveries to the buying team
• Setting up new vendors and send them routing guides and pre-ticketing information
• Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams
• Assisting the buying team to proof catalog copy
• Identifying photos on the web to be reshot to drive sales

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• PTO
• generous employee discounts
• retirement savings