Senior Merchant (HOME)

Job Description

Senior Buyer / Senior Merchant (HOME)

We are seeking a hands-on, product-focused Senior Buyer to lead assortment strategy, product development, and day-to-day account management across key retail partners in the Off-Price space for soft goods home products.

Responsibilities

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• Identify market trends, competitive insights, and product opportunities.
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• Partner with design, product development, and sourcing teams to create commercially relevant assortments.
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• Build retailer-specific assortment strategies across product, pricing, materials, and trends.
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• Evaluate existing product lines and make recommendations on what to strengthen, revise, or discontinue.
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• Support major retailer meetings with product selection, assortment strategy, and presentation planning.
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• Translate buyer feedback into actionable product development priorities.
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• Monitor retail stores and online competitors to identify opportunities and white space.
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• Ensure products meet cost, retail, quality, and perceived-value expectations.
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• Oversee order management, including on-time shipping, sample timing, and production follow-up.
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• Build and maintain strong relationships with retail accounts.
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Ideal Background

Strong retail buying, merchandising, product development, and account-management experience. This role requires someone decisive, commercially minded, and comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams. Experience supporting off-price retail accounts is highly preferred.