Buyer/Purchasing Associate

Department: Buying office

The Associate Buyer is responsible for providing market expertise, filtering the assortment, and establishing buy quantities that meet the Region's needs and financial goals within open to buy parameters. Demonstrates smart risk-taking in business and product decisions and clearly communicates and manages team to execute these decisions. Supports the Buyers by providing analysis and results for their category, recommends action against the results and follows through on executing this action. Partner with Buyer to formulate and profitably execute the development, selection, procurement and promotion across multiple brands

Liaise with visual team to ensure that all products are properly on sales floor for optimization

Analyze sales trend, key items, vendor profitability and aged inventory as well as making recommendations for driving improved performance

~ Monitoring of merchandise reports, Open-to-Buy monitoring, stock analysis and other ad hoc analyses.

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.

• 4+ years of experience in Buying Role.
• Creative product skills and comprehensive market knowledge.
• creative problem solver.
• Comfortable with team based work structure, ability to demonstrate flexibility
• High level of proficiency in Word and Excel.