Summary:

The Buying Coordinator’s primary responsibility is the entering and maintaining of purchase orders including SKU generation and UPC downloads and associations.  Maintaining samples and working with our photography studio to get images online. 

The ideal candidate should come with previous retail experience, communication with vendors and working with merchandise to support sales plans. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Managing photographing, online and cataloging product samples, shipping, and tracking packages from the Buying/Merchandising department. 
• Communicate professionally and efficiently with vendor partners.
• Maintain all Buying tracking documents required and ensure information is complete and accurate (i.e., sampling and promotional product planning).
• Partner with cross-functional partners to manage help resolve any product issues with vendors.
• Communicate with vendors and internal business partners to track PO’s for on time arrival 
• Partner with visual on merchandising execution retail that support assortment and sales plans.
• Assist with pulling sales data for key meetings such as weekly business reviews, monthly forecasting, quarterly Investment Review.
• Participate in seasonal markets and assist where necessary.
• Samples-Manage incoming and outgoing product samples, pull samples for meetings.

Competency: 

• Critical Thinking: 
• Problem Solving: 
• Customer Service:
• Collaboration: Work effectively with others to accomplish goals.
• Attendance/Punctuality: Flexibility required due to may need to stay longer depending on workload.
• Ethics - Treats people with respect; Keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
• Safety Security: Employees must follow all safety policies and procedures to ensure an accident-free workplace.

Qualifications:  

The preferred candidate must have the following qualifications to perform this job successfully. 

Education/Experience: BA/BS degree; at least 1-2 years of merchandising office experience. 

Language Ability: Excellent communication skills. 

Math Ability: Basic retail math. 

Computer Skills: Intermediate in Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint) and oracle system.

Certificates Skills:  

Supervisory Responsibilities: To be successful in this job, you must be a creative problem solver, team player, thrive in feedback-driven environment and are eager to use feedback and develop skills, both personally and professionally. 

Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job. The primary location of this position is a typical office environment. However, the responsibilities may require being energetic, motivated, meetings, and conferences.  

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions: the employee must regularly require lifting and/or move up to 20lbs, sit and write to operate a computer and printer, photocopier, calculator, and use of telephone communication devices, sometimes kneel, crouch or crawl as well as pulling and pushing objects.