Assistant Buyer: Development Program & Hybrid Training

Burlington Stores; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Associate discount

Hybrid/remote days

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Burlington Stores in New Jersey is launching an Assistant Buyer program as a starting point for a career path in Buying. You will get hands-on training, a mentor, and shadowing opportunities with buying teams in market and office settings.

A hybrid model is provided with in-office, market/comp shopping, and remote days, with relocation benefits for eligible candidates. You will select and procure merchandise, analyze category performance, negotiate pricing, and build strong vendor relationships

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Merchandising, Business, Marketing, Retail Management, Supply Chain, Economics, or related fields.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel including pivot tables and VLOOKUP and basic understanding of Microsoft Office programs.
• Fundamental understanding of retail math.
• Data-driven problem-solver who can build and maintain productive partnerships by living our core values.
• Ability to travel within NY, NJ, and PA region as needed for vendor appointments, market visits, and competitive shopping activities.

Responsibilities

• Select and procure merchandise in conjunction with your Buyer in the assigned business area of responsibility to ensure that the final mix of products is ultimately customer oriented and curated to achieve a set profit plan.
• Provide operational support to the Buyer by independently managing business analysis and delivering insights on category performance.
• Participate in market visits/vendor appointments to select product assortments and negotiate pricing that resonate with customers and reflect strong value.
• Contribute to business growth by sharing well-informed perspectives based on competitive shopping, trend monitoring, and market performance evaluation.
• Build and nurture strong, positive "win/win" relationships with vendors.
• Effectively influence to solve problems and follow up with orders.
• Manage a large magnitude of email streams across a diverse vendor database and in turn, be able to communicate and give updates to managers regarding vendor feedback.
• Maintain planned receipt flow on a consistent basis which consists of tracking when merchandise is being received and using judgment to make flow issue callouts to buyers when needed, ensuring adherence to scheduled shipping windows, and negotiating late shipping discounts.
• Consistently drive results by strategically managing the full cycle of merchandise for your business area which include entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders to ensure timely delivery, communicating late deliveries to the Buying team, setting up new vendors with routing guides and pre-ticketing information.
• Collaborate for success; teamwork is key to success and you will work with several functional areas within the department for input, ideas, and to execute your assignments.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Retail math

Data-driven

Vendor relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Merchandising/Business

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Burlington Stores in New Jersey is launching an Assistant Buyer program as a starting point for a career path in Buying. You will get hands-on training, a mentor, and shadowing opportunities with buying teams in market and office settings.

A hybrid model is provided with in-office, market/comp shopping, and remote days, with relocation benefits for eligible candidates. You will select and procure merchandise, analyze category performance, negotiate pricing, and build strong vendor relationships