What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Buyer position at Tootsies?
Responsibilities:
- Collect and review financial data, ensuring accuracy for strategic decisions.
- Assist in analyzing class and vendor performance.
- Assist in vendor communication.
- Ensure proper receipt flow, monitoring receipt of goods and tracking orders.
- Communicate stock inadequacies to the buyer.
- Optimize buying by store in order to maximize opportunities by market and follow up with appropriate allocation.
- Write and place reorders after consultation with the buyer.
- Analyze vendor performance to identify product opportunities, trends, and offerings that will impact the business and provide results.
- Assist buyer during product selection and assortment during market.
- Enter all seasonal purchases accurately into the appropriate systems and meet all deadlines.
Qualifications:
- 2 years minimum in buying office experience required; preferably in a luxury, retail environment
- Must have strong retail math skills.
- Sense of urgency, confident, self-starter, quick learner and motivated attitude.
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks while multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong listening, written, and oral communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and computer skills.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Exhibits a strong sense of professionalism, courtesy and friendly demeanor.
Working Conditions:
- Prolonged periods of sitting, required to use hands and fingers, to handle or feel.
- Employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Physical requirements of the position/Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
- Employee is required to talk and hear.
- Vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
- Noise level in work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
Tootsies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.