Buyer​/Product Manager

About us:

Napa Home & Garden is a wholesale home décor brand headquartered in Norcross, GA, and one in a family of highly regarded brands under C&F Enterprises. Known for its distinctive, artisan curated product assortments, Napa serves style-conscious independent boutique retailers, specialty stores, designers and trade customers, and a growing DTC channel.

Napa Home & Garden is evolving from a traditional buying organization into a strategic merchandising powerhouse, and we're looking for a Buyer/Product Manager who thinks like a business owner, not just a purchaser. If you've built category strategy, owned a P&L, or driven growth through a blend of data and design instinct, in home, retail, or CPG brand management, this is a chance to bring that discipline to a design-forward wholesale brand at a real inflection point.

The Buyer/Product Manager is responsible for the overall commercial success of key product categories from strategy to building compelling assortments and driving profitable growth.

• Product Assortment Planning
  . Translate key category strategies grounded in consumer insight into seasonal product roadmaps that deliver profitable growth. Own your assigned category product lifecycle from ideation through on-time product launches and end-of-life decisions. Work with Design from concept through launch, evaluating commercial viability at every stage.
• The P&L. Own launch success for your categories: sales, margin, forecast accuracy, SKU productivity, and category growth.
• Consumer Insight
  . Continuously monitor consumer trends, competitor assortments, pricing strategies, retailer feedback, sales data and macroeconomic conditions to identify opportunities before competitors.
• Vendor Relationships & Negotiation
  . Lead negotiations on cost, MOQs, and exclusivity; build the global supplier relationships that give Napa a lasting competitive edge.
• Cross-functional Influence
  . Lead cross-functional teams through influence, aligning Design, Sales, Marketing, and Operations around a common category strategy to launch product on time and on strategy.

• 7-10 years in Buying, Merchandising, Category Management, Product Management, or Brand Management, with real accountability for a category
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising, Marketing, or a related field
• Experience managing product categories with measurable financial accountability
• Demonstrated success with product development, building assortments, managing product life cycles and sourcing processes
• Strong analytical, financial acumen and attention to detail. Excel skills; comfort with ERP, PLM, or BI tools a plus
• A sharp eye for design and an instinct for what makes a product sell
• The confidence to challenge assumptions and the collaboration skills to bring people along with you
• Sound judgment and integrity in communication and decisions
• Bonus points:
  
  experience in home décor, furnishings, or lifestyle categories; international sourcing exposure; managing a direct report

• Sitting, Standing, Walking
• Prolonged use of computer involved; use of hands and finger coordination; specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision. Color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus as needed.
• Twice a year during Market periods, standing and walking for 8-12 hours each day

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health savings account
• 401(k) and 401(k) matching
• Company paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability
• Paid time off

This is a hybrid role based at our Norcross, GA headquarters. Candidates should expect to be in the…