Buyer Jr

Job Title
Buyer Jr

Position Purpose
Inform with data about the develop of the categories, identify issues and find solutions, work with vendor updating the catalogs, retails opportunities, new item setups, help the CM with the LR process

Primary Accountabilities

• Category Management - New Item Setups, Sku Maintenance, Exception Report, Review Same Store Sales Report, Cost & Retail Changes, Devaluations, Project Follow ups, Vendor Negotiations, Funding, Unproductive Inventory.
• Pre-Line Reviews/Line Reviews - Review Proposals, Meeting with Vendors, Evaluating Samples, Product Analysis, New Adds, Deletes and Clones, Vendor Funding, Forecasting, Devaluations, Vendor Negotiations.
• Planogram - Building the Planogram, Min Review, ZAP Revision, Planogram Maintenance, Secondary Placement Follow up.
• Store Support - Customer Satisfaction, Pricing Deals.
• Marketing - Upload Promotions, Product Images, Innovation.
• Supply Chain - Fill Rate, Special Orders, Recalls, Return to Vendor, Return to Stock, Order Follow up.

Education & Experience
Level of Formal Education: A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent.
Area of Study: Business Degree, Engineering, Data Scientist
Years of Experience: One to two years.
Type of Experience: Operational and Merchandising Experience
Special Certifications or Technical Skills: Microsoft Office (excel is a must, pivot tables), Data Entry (big data reporting)
Other/Preferred: Bilingual - English/Spanish, structured, self-driven, common sense, proactive, organized, effective communication.