About the Role

As Associate Buyer you will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet sub-category goals. You will be accountable for the end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary brands. As a key partner to Design, you will also own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.

What You’ll Do

Own product strategy and buying decisions for National and Proprietary brands

Incorporate customer insights, competition, category trends and hindsight to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy

Accelerate consumer insights and drive innovation to make bold trade-offs to maximize sub-categories and brands

Partner with store experience team to ensure optimal floor plan creation that reflects customer-facing execution of assortment vision

Lead pricing strategy; partner with strategic pricing team to set pricing plans to realize margin targets

Guide Assistant Merchants in the execution and season management of pricing, strategy and product selection process for Marketing, and strategy development for First Insight testing

Identify markdowns by event and guide Assistant Merchants in the execution of markdowns

Lead and guide Assistant Merchants in the execution of digital experience strategy

Meet KPIs including Sales performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance and Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management

Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

Consumer obsession

Strong product acumen and strategic mindset focused on curating relevant assortments and product stories

Attention to detail

Curiosity, flexibility and resiliency

Outstanding communication and presentation skills

Excellent strategic and analytical skills to deliver growth

Market, Localization and Trend travel are required