Assistant Buyer

Stefanini Group is hiring for a hybrid role based in New York, NY (4 days in-office, 1 day remote). Work location: 205 W 39th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain weekly, monthly, and seasonal business reports.
• Analyze performance by category, program, style, and channel to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
• Maintain accurate line plans, assortment sheets, buy files, and style-color-size information throughout the seasonal process.
• Enter purchase orders ensuring accuracy of style, color, size, quantity, cost, retail, delivery window, and channel information.
• Track on-order inventory, receipts, and delivery status; proactively communicate delays, shortages, or discrepancies.
• Support seasonal milestone meetings, including line reviews, assortment reviews, buy reviews, and business hindsight presentations.
• Partner with Planning and Allocation to monitor inventory levels, size availability, replenishment needs, and in-season opportunities.
• Manage product samples and coordinate handoffs for buying meetings, e-commerce, marketing, and visual merchandising needs.
• Conduct competitive and market research related to product, pricing, promotions, trends, and customer preferences.
• Support ad hoc analyses, store visits, and special projects based on business priorities.

Qualifications

• One to three years of experience in retail buying, merchandising, planning, allocation, or a related function; previous Assistant Buyer or Merchandise Assistant experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of retail math, including sales, margin, sell-through, inventory, markdowns, and weeks of supply.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and lookup formulas; proficiency in PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear findings and recommended actions.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across functions.
• Proactive, adaptable, and able to work independently with limited direction.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore, and nearshore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises. With a presence in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, Stefanini serves over four hundred clients across industries such as financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. The company is CMM Level 5 certified.