Associate Buyer, Non Apparel

Job Description

About Us

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Mixology is a women's fashion retailer with a portfolio of brick-and-mortar stores and a fast-growing e-commerce business at shopmixology.com. We carry a curated mix of contemporary brands alongside our own labels, Gab & Kate and Zoe Belle. We move quickly, buy close to season, and win because our team has a curated POV and numerical discipline.

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The Opportunity

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You'll be the person who knows every accessory vendor worth knowing, who spots the $38 item that sells out in nine days, and who makes sure the register never rings an apparel sale without something next to it. It's a hands-on, high-volume, high-turn job with a clear path to full category ownership.

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Buying & Assortment

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• Support the build of seasonal non-apparel assortments by category, price point, and door balancing everyday reorder basics against newness and trend.
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• Attend market and vendor appointments; take notes, build linesheets, track what you saw, and come back with a point of view.
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• Research and vet new vendors, especially small and emerging brands, and maintain a live pipeline of who we should be talking to.
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• Write and enter purchase orders accurately; own the entire order lifecycle from confirmation through receipt.
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• Manage the reorder cadence on core items so best sellers never go out of stock.
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• Partner on private label non-apparel development for Gab & Kate and Zoe Belle sample tracking, comments, costing support, and calendar management.
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• Build the non-apparel side of key gifting moments: Mother's Day, holiday, Valentine's Day, graduation, and the impulse and add-on assortment that supports them
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Analysis & Inventory

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• Build and maintain weekly AI Driven selling reports by category, vendor, class, and store; flag what's working and what isn't before anyone has to ask.
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• Track sell-through, weeks of supply, and margin at the item level; recommend reorders, markdowns, and consolidations.
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• Support open-to-buy maintenance and keep receipt flow on plan.
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• Monitor store-level and e-commerce inventory; execute transfers and rebalances to get product where it's selling.
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• Own the seasonal exit plan for non-apparel.
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Vendors & Operations:

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• Serve as the day-to-day contact for non-apparel vendors: order status, ship windows, backorders, damages, RTVs, chargebacks, and co-op.
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• Work with our warehouse and store teams on receiving issues and resolve them quickly.
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• Own the accuracy of product data in Shopify titles, product types, tags, pricing, collections, and variant setup since our site navigation and merchandising depend on it.
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• Partner with e-commerce and marketing on product copy, imagery needs, launch timing, and gift guides.
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• Partner with store leadership on how accessories are merchandised, cross-merchandised, and sold on the floor
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Required

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• 2+ years in a buying, merchandising, planning, or inventory role in retail — specialty, boutique, or multi-brand preferred.
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• Genuine fluency in Excel or Google Sheets: pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, building a report from raw data without hand-holding.
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• Comfort with retail math: margin, markup, sell-through, turn, weeks of supply, OTB and the instinct to question a number that looks wrong.
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• Strong organizational skills and real follow-through; this role touches hundreds of SKUs and dozens of vendors at once.
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• An eye for product, and the confidence to say what you think in a vendor appointment.
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• Availability to work on-site full-time at our New York City office and travel for market several times a year.
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Nice to Have

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• Experience with Shopify (Plus), a retail ERP, or an inventory management platform.
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• Prior accessories, jewelry, gift, or home category experience.
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• Familiarity with private label or product development timelines.
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• Comfortable staying on the cutting edge of AI Tools.
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• Time spent on a sales floor you understand how the product actually sells.
  
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