Assistant Buyer – Home Interiors

Makerspalm; Media (Delaware County); Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Co.House Designs is seeking an Assistant Buyer - Home to support merchandising and financial performance across Textiles, Decor, Mirrors, and Tabletop. This hybrid role in Media, PA involves building compelling assortments and partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to drive category growth.

You will analyze performance, assist with inventory planning, pricing, and launches, and collaborate cross-functionally to balance product, margin, and customer demand in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in buying, merchandising, or a related retail role.
• Retail experience required.
• Experience with textiles, home decor, tabletop, mirrors, home furnishings, gifts, or lifestyle products preferred.
• Strong product instincts and an appreciation for elevated interior-design aesthetics.
• Commercial understanding of pricing, margins, inventory, and product performance.
• Working knowledge of IMU%, GM%, markdown %, sell-through, WOS, inventory turn, and OTB.
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills and ability to interpret data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the buying and merchandising strategy across Textiles, Decor, Mirrors, and Tabletop.
• Assist in building seasonal and core assortments aligned with the Co.House Designs aesthetic and commercial objectives.
• Research market trends, competitive assortments, retail pricing, colors, materials, finishes, and emerging product opportunities.
• Identify assortment opportunities and category gaps.
• Assist with product selection, assortment architecture, pricing, margin planning, and purchasing decisions.
• Review SKU productivity and recommend opportunities to expand, maintain, reduce, or discontinue products.
• Help establish opening, core, and premium price points within each category.
• Partner cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure category assortments, inventory plans, pricing, and launch priorities align with overall business objectives.
• Analyze weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual sales performance by category, collection, style, SKU, and channel.
• Monitor sales, inventory, gross margin, markdowns, sell-through, weeks of supply, and inventory productivity.
• Assist in developing and maintaining category-level Open-to-Buy (OTB) plans.
• Review actual performance against sales, inventory, and margin plans.
• Identify best sellers, slow sellers, inventory risks, and emerging opportunities.
• Support forecasting and purchasing decisions based on historical performance, current trends, inventory position, and planned growth.
• Recommend actions to improve sales, margin, inventory turn, and category performance.
• Develop regular category performance reporting and communicate key findings to leadership.
• Candidates should be comfortable using key retail metrics including IMU%, MD%, GM%, Sell-Through, WOS, Inventory Turn, and OTB.

Skills

Buying & Merchandising

Excel/Sheets

Data Interpretation

Project Management

Communication

Independent Work

Tools

Excel/Google Sheets

Job description

Co.House Designs is seeking an Assistant Buyer - Home to support merchandising and financial performance across Textiles, Decor, Mirrors, and Tabletop. This hybrid role in Media, PA involves building compelling assortments and partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to drive category growth.

You will analyze performance, assist with inventory planning, pricing, and launches, and collaborate cross-functionally to balance product, margin, and customer demand in a fast-moving environment.