Associate Buyer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create weekly, monthly, and end of season sales reports and ability to present/share results to internal and external partners.
• Manage basic New Goods program by forecasting need and managing a replenishment program that ensures the correct product assortment is in all stores while driving sales and maximizing profits.
• Execute operational category management for assigned product categories, including assortment planning, inventory flow oversight, vendor coordination, pricing updates, and performance tracking to support sales and margin goals.
• Perform purchasing and procurement activities for internal operational needs, ensuring timely acquisition of supplies, materials, and services.
• Maintain end-to-end purchasing activities ensuring accurate G/L coding within the organization’s requisition system to support timely and compliant financial transactions.
• Process non-standard product requests, ensuring accuracy, feasibility, and alignment with company buying guidelines.
• Partner with leadership to establish standardized methods for tracking, analyzing, and reporting KPI performance.
• Develop and maintain supplier scorecard.
• Conduct annual year-end physical inventories, resolve identified discrepancies, and review final results with managers to ensure accurate reporting and compliance.
• Coincide donated physical inventories with retail regionals and report results to finance.
• Maintain, update, and deliver manuals, documents, and How-To guides for inventory processes.
• Create and communicate distribution workflow to warehouse team.
• Take an active role in annual store budget process.
• Responsible for month-end, and year-end tasks.
• Travel with Supply Chain Director to source and procure goods as needed.
• Aid Supply Chain Director with product selection, placing and tracking purchase orders, creating pricing strategies, managing inventory, and keeping track of market trends.
• Department resource for point of sale system (Microsoft D365) for all things related to item set-up, maintenance, and inventory of new goods.
• Maintain order of operations for order/item creation and communication.
• Provide comprehensive oversight of the Procurement and Inventory Coordinator, including workflow management, training, and day-to-day supervision to ensure accurate purchasing, inventory control, and operational continuity.

Pay

Hourly Rate: $30.72 – $33.38 per hour