BUYER (LEVEL I) - FURNITURE

About the role

Maximizes sales and profitability for assigned group of businesses through the development and implementation of strategy analysis and appropriate reaction to sales trend.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development and implementation of business strategy for a category of responsibility to achieve departmental sales, gross margin, and turnover objectives for a worldwide omni-channel retail organization.
• Responsible for the leadership, supervision, and development of a staff consisting of Assistant Buyer and Merchandiser.
• Analyzes market trends and offerings to develop, execute, and maintain merchandise stock assortments, business strategies, and goals, and seasonal plans for assigned merchandise departments.
• Negotiates with vendors to obtain most favorable prices and allowances to achieve sales and profit objectives for basic and seasonal merchandise.
• Manages vendor performance and global sourcing for private label, seasonal, and basic merchandise as appropriate.
• Works with other teams to develop space allocation, adjacencies, seasonal merchandise visual guidelines, and planograms for store sets and renovations.
• Develops and executes marketing plan for assigned departments and oversees order placement and tracking to ensure timely receipt of merchandise.
• Maximizes coop of market development funds and works closely with various teams to plan sales, gross profit, and stock turn, as well as maintaining an in-season forecast on a monthly basis.
• Prepares merchandise information and training for Communication Guide and conducts store visits to evaluate merchandise presentation, customer demographics, stock assortments, and inventory levels.
• Attends trade shows and markets as appropriate and performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Total of 7 years of experience consisting of general experience and specialized experience.
• General Experience: 3 years of experience which was gained in administrative, merchandising, technical, or other responsible work which enabled the applicant to gain a knowledge of merchandising and procurement practices, skill in dealing with others in person-to-person work relationships, and the ability to exercise mature judgment.
• Substitution Of Education For Experience: 1 year of education above the high school level may be substituted for 9 months of experience, up to a maximum of a 4-year bachelor's degree for 3 years of general experience.
• Specialized Experience: 4 years of progressive experience which provided background in procurement practices, methods, and procedures, developing and maintaining open-to-buy, selecting sources of supply, comparison shopping, review of merchandise for pricing, markdowns, and stock rotation, planning and developing sales promotions, and other merchandise controls or similar work which demonstrated the knowledge and ability within the procurement operational area.

Qualifications

The incumbent of this position must file a Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) as required.

Skills

Knowledge of merchandising and procurement practices, skill in dealing with others in person-to-person work relationships, and the ability to exercise mature judgment.

Benefits

Collaborative partnerships with vendors and internal and external colleagues.

Pay and Schedule

Full-Time (35+ hours).