Buyer - Wellness & Self-Care

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Develops new and existing vendor relationships. - Collaborates in developing the merchandise strategies that define which categories will grow, stabilize and decline while still achieving financial metrics. Provides recommendations regarding close-out, opportunistic, and everyday businesses. - Collaborates with Planning to develop a merchandise plan to support the strategy and achieve goals. - Identifies opportunities to exploit sales and margin opportunities and partners with Planning and Allocation to develop execution tactics. - Collaborates with Planning, Allocation, Advertising, Merchandise Presentation, Distribution and Transportation Services, and Field Management to understand and improve upon internal company processes. - Travels to stores weekly to understand merchandise packaging and presentation requirements, customer requirements and customer trends. Shops competitor stores weekly to assess direction of competition and understand competitive pricing structures. - Travels to trade shows and vendor locations to develop a network of contacts, to stay informed on industry and competitor direction, and to source deals. Travel may inv...