What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Buyer position at Goodwill Southern California?
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Goodwill Southern California’s is seeking a skilled Assistant Buyer to provide analytical, operational, and assistant support for the Purchased Product division. The Assistant Buyer assists the department to execute the merchandising strategy by delivering exciting, commercially-focused product assortments that meet our customers’ needs and drives revenue to meet and/or exceed financial goals.
This is a 4-6 month fixed-term position based at Goodwill's San Bernardino office.
Key Responsibilities:
Goodwill gives preferential consideration to persons with barriers to employment. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Goodwill is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees.
Employment decisions will comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in employment including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disabilities
In furtherance of our commitment to end discrimination against qualified disabled individuals, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and all regulations properly issued thereunder to protect the rights of qualified disabled persons, it is Goodwill's policy that no program or activity administered by it shall exclude from participation, deny benefits to or subject to discrimination any individual solely by reason of his or her disability. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to qualified disabled persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall and termination. We further affirm that we will provide reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified disabled employee or applicant.
It is the policy of Goodwill to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified persons with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment. If you need assistance for accommodations to interview because of a disability, please notify the Human Resources Department.
Employment opportunities will not be denied to anyone because of the need to make reasonable accommodations for a disability.
Goodwill Southern California’s is seeking a skilled Assistant Buyer to provide analytical, operational, and assistant support for the Purchased Product division. The Assistant Buyer assists the department to execute the merchandising strategy by delivering exciting, commercially-focused product assortments that meet our customers’ needs and drives revenue to meet and/or exceed financial goals.
This is a 4-6 month fixed-term position based at Goodwill's San Bernardino office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the purchase order follow up report and open order report, keeping the information updated and accurate.
- Responsible for managing purchase order confirmations.
- Responsible for creating merchandising directives for new merchandise.
- Follows up with store on pending Purchased Product items.
- Coordinates price changes for markdowns.
- Gathers, collects, records, tracks and verifies data and information from multiple sources.
- Works closely with the merchandising and warehouse teams.
- Minimum 2 years retail assistant buyer experience.
- Bachelor or Associate’s degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school in retail merchandising or business preferred.
- Excellent customer relations and people skills.
- Communication skills to precisely and clearly convey orders to vendors in timely manner.
- Experienced with Microsoft Office and teams.
- Analytical mindset with attention to details.
- Ability to work with all levels of employee and vendors to produce results in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision while multitasking different projects.
- Background, drug screen, education verification, employment verification and MVR required.
Goodwill gives preferential consideration to persons with barriers to employment. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Goodwill is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees.
Employment decisions will comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in employment including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disabilities
In furtherance of our commitment to end discrimination against qualified disabled individuals, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and all regulations properly issued thereunder to protect the rights of qualified disabled persons, it is Goodwill's policy that no program or activity administered by it shall exclude from participation, deny benefits to or subject to discrimination any individual solely by reason of his or her disability. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to qualified disabled persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall and termination. We further affirm that we will provide reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified disabled employee or applicant.
It is the policy of Goodwill to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified persons with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment. If you need assistance for accommodations to interview because of a disability, please notify the Human Resources Department.
Employment opportunities will not be denied to anyone because of the need to make reasonable accommodations for a disability.
