Assistant Buyer
ABOUT THE POSITION
As an Assistant Buyer and key member of the buying team you’ll support execution of seasonal buying strategies to achieve sales and gross margin goals. Your responsibilities will include data analytics, building and maintaining advanced reporting, and preparing and disseminating weekly, monthly, and seasonal documents.
Within this role you’ll work your direct manager to learn and contribute to all facets of the go to market process. This includes working with cross functional partners such as product line managers, allocation, planning, in store marketing, visual merchandising, and store operations teams.
You will build visual assortment tools and multi-year historical data analysis to inform the seasonal buy strategies. In season tasks will be focused on managing pricing and promotions along with supporting the greater team with accurate reporting and analytics using PBI dashboards and excel.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Provide accurate data enabling teams to analyze current business trends and take action as needed
- Support direct manager with in-season management, and support varied team members with seasonal buys across planning and execution by preparing documentation, collecting and analyzing data, and creating visual documentation
- Participate in cross-functional meetings to gather key information and execute merchandising decisions
- Create product catalogs to support seasonal strategy for leadership product reviews and retail stores, upload orders and reconcile seasonal buys
YOU ARE
- Well-versed in interpersonal communication
- Analytical and creative, balancing both skills to create an assortment
- Able to exercise effective time management
- Resourceful, resilient, and confident
YOU HAVE
- Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification, or equivalent experience
- 1-2 years of buying experience, retail merchandising, merchandise planning or allocation
- Excellent Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills
- Proven understanding of retail industry and retail specific metrics
- Solid communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as excellent presentation skills
- Illustrator experience preferred
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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [email protected] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.Average salary estimate
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