Buyer, Wall, Lighting, Decorative Accessories

About the Team

You will be part of a collaborative team responsible for creating assortment strategies based on analyzing sales and trends. Our job blends creativity, analytics, and marketing. As part of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., a leader in home lifestyle and retail, our merchandising team drives customer engagement and profitability through data-informed, trend-right assortments across all brands.

You will be part of a collaborative team responsible for creating assortment strategies based on analyzing sales and trends. Our job blends creativity, analytics, and marketing. As part of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., a leader in home lifestyle and retail, our merchandising team drives customer engagement and profitability through data-informed, trend-right assortments across all brands.

As a Buyer, you will create and develop business strategies and seasonal assortment plans to deliver sales and profits for the assigned department in line with strategies set by the divisional Director / VP. You will identify category opportunities and recommend new products or concepts for the department. You will also coordinate information across functions working closely with Design, Inventory Management, Ecommerce, Sourcing, Allocation, Production, Creative Services, Stores, Packaging and Visual to ensure the process is followed and timelines are met.

You will handle visual signage (new, specials, markdowns) and coordinate in-store collateral, online copy and image assets, photo samples and assortment tools.

• Analyze, present and recap sales trends and results to leadership, and cross-functional partners for assigned department(s). Demonstrate on a daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Communicate weekly selling updates, assortment opportunities and influence mark down recommendations and trending collections to “chase” orders.
• Develop and communicate annual and seasonal business merchandising strategies for assigned department(s). focused on core businesses and newness.
• Select seasonal and core product assortment for assigned department(s) to drive the business forward on collaboration with in-house design team.
• Collaborate with Inventory Management to develop annual and seasonal financial plans.
• Collaborate with Inventory Management and Sourcing on seasonal assortment rank, purchase quantity recommendations, flow and exit strategies for initial cost and production negotiations for new programs
• Identify emerging trends. Develop business strategies outlining strengths, weaknesses, new opportunities, and threats to drive future growth.
• Create and maintain merchandising assortment plans for assigned departments
• Establish seasonal pricing strategies and set profitable pricing based on sales trends and cost negotiations with the Sourcing team.
• Perform market analysis, competitive shop, and analyze sales trends to keep abreast of current trends. Obtain feedback from stores to improve product and add to collections.
• Correspond with functional areas to resolve difficult issues on product quality issues, re-ticketing issues, or customer service needs
• Lead weekly product development meetings product presentation set uP and establish a POV and provide critical and important feedback on the design.
• Participate in regular return and replacement meetings and work to resolution for your area(s).
• Propose and recommend promotional opportunities to drive sales and customer engagement.
• Execute SKU creation and SKU updates for all departments.
• Communicate key product items and digital marketing plans for assigned department(s).
• Influence email and social marketing…