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
This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You'll work onsite from Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.