Assistant Buyer Job Grand Prairie area,Texas USA,Retail

Summary:

Our assistant buyers are entrepreneurial, motivated, business owners who strive to present our customers with thoughtfully and responsibly curated assortments. They develop, maintain, and implement frame assortments for each network brand, by segment and capacity. The Assistant Buyer will partner with the Buyers to create an assortment strategy at the segment/cluster level. They analyze and manage the process of reviewing frame sales by collection, by network brand and segment, to meet GMROI, sales mix and initial mark up objectives.

Pay

and Pay Class

Pay: $18.88 - $24.21 Hourly

Pay Class:
Full Time & Remote

Essential Responsibilities

Development and maintenance of optimum assortments by category/collection to match assortment segmentation strategy, including store specific needs by capacity, sales volume, and demographics.

Communicate and manage assortment changes in conjunction with the merchandising, inventory, and visual merchandising departments in the company.

Analyze sales trends by frame collection by segment for each network brand, bi-annually, or as needed, to recommend merchandising assortment changes per cluster, to optimize profit dollars

Assist buyers with selection and organization of samples for each category.

Responsible for requesting all new samples and coordination of samples.

Assist buyers with SKU attribute set up, partnering with vendors as needed

Assist buyers with keying in orders, frame samples, selling reports and any other processes on an as needed basis.

Respond to store questions and requests and take action to satisfy any customer or store issues

Education

High School Diploma, Associate degree, or equivalent work experience
Bachelor’s degree preferred

Experience & Background

Three - Five (5) years of related work experience
Strong organizational skills and ability to execute detailed tasks and processes
Strong customer focus
Proficient in Microsoft Office including PowerPoint and Excel

Language Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Mathematical Skills

Strong retail math skills
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs

Reasoning Ability

Strong critical thinking; enjoys solving complex problems
Ability to think logically in following procedures and instructions

Essential Responsibilities related to Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and talk or hear.

The associate is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The associate must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Required repetitive motion of sitting and using hands to finger and feel. The noise level in this location is moderate (use of computers, printers and machines).

Activity

None

Under 1/3

1/3 to 2/3

Over 2/3

Stand

Walk

Sit

Use hands to finger, handle, or feel

Reach with Hands and Arms

Climb or balance

Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

Talk or hear

Close Vision (clear vision at 20” or less)

Essential Responsibilities related to Behavioral Characteristics

Commitment to accuracy
Detail oriented with strong organizational/time management skills
Ability to handle multiple assignments/tasks efficiently with interruptions and deadlines
Strong customer focus
Ability to work collaboratively with all areas within the Company
Detail oriented with strong organizational/time management skills

HIPAA & Security Requirements

All Associates must comply with the Health Insurance…