Assistant Buyer

ABOUT THE POSITION

As an Assistant Buyer and key member of the buying team you'll support execution of seasonal buying strategies to achieve sales and gross margin goals. Your responsibilities will include data analytics, building and maintaining advanced reporting, and preparing and disseminating weekly, monthly, and seasonal documents.

Within this role you'll work your direct manager to learn and contribute to all facets of the go to market process. This includes working with cross functional partners such as product line managers, allocation, planning, in store marketing, visual merchandising, and store operations teams.

You will build visual assortment tools and multi-year historical data analysis to inform the seasonal buy strategies. In season tasks will be focused on managing pricing and promotions along with supporting the greater team with accurate reporting and analytics using PBI dashboards and excel.

HOWYOU'LLMAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Provide accurate data enabling teams to analyze current business trends and take action as needed
• Support direct manager with in-season management, and support varied team members with seasonal buys across planning and execution by preparing documentation, collecting and analyzing data, and creating visual documentation
• Participate in cross-functional meetings to gather key information and execute merchandising decisions
• Create product catalogs to support seasonal strategy for leadership product reviews and retail stores, upload orders and reconcile seasonal buys

YOU ARE

• Well-versed in interpersonal communication
• Analytical and creative, balancing both skills to create an assortment
• Able to exercise effective time management
• Resourceful, resilient, and confident

YOUHAVE

• Bachelor's degree, applicable certification, or equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of buying experience, retail merchandising, merchandise planning or allocation
• Excellent Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills
• Proven understanding of retail industry and retail specific metrics
• Solid communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as excellent presentation skills
• Illustrator experience preferred

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.