What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Buyer position at Levin Furniture & Mattress?
This is an entry-level position that will support our Merchandising staff in all areas of merchandising.
- Provides support to buying staff
- Provides analysis of product sales
- Supports the Buyer by monitoring the results of competitive shopping and pricing
- Owns item maintenance, maintains records including item, description, cost
- Travel to stores, and collaborate with stores to ensure they have all pertinent information for all products
- Ensures accuracy of merchandise reports and assortment sheets
- Assists the Buyer with all necessary pricing ladders to achieve sales, margin, and turnover targets for total office and area of responsibility.
- Responsible for populating any necessary documents for decision-making
- Coordinates vendor meetings and communication
- Update system for retail changes, cost changes
- Working with the buyer to learn to determine the overall mix of market and private label products for each buying area to ensure the final mix is ultimately customer-oriented
- Assisting the buying team to proof web copy
- Identifying photos on the web to be reshot to drive sale
- Bachelor’s degree in business or merchandising, and 2 years prior work experience in furniture retail or interior design environment; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to apply effective communication skills, reading, verbal and written, to interact with customers, colleagues, and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated knowledge of PC’s.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software, including Microsoft Office.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, and listening skills.
- Outstanding customer service skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of furniture
- Ability to travel independently to stores regularly with occasional overnight travel.
