Emerging Buyer: Merch Strategy & Global Sourcing

NAVY EXCHANGE SERVICE COMMAND (NEXCOM); Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Retirement opportunities

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

NAVY EXCHANGE SERVICE COMMAND (NEXCOM) is seeking a Buyer to lead merchandise strategies, vendor partnerships, and teams that drive sales across our worldwide retail operation. The role offers competitive pay, strong benefits, and opportunities to support the military community we proudly serve.

The Buyer will maximize sales and profitability by developing and executing category strategies, supervising a staff, and collaborating with finance, inventory planning, and marketing teams to meet sales

Qualifications

• 3 years general experience which was gained in administrative merchandising technical or other responsible work which enabled the applicant to gain a knowledge of merchandising and procurement practices skill in dealing with others in person-to person work relationships and the ability to exercise mature judgment.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development and implementation of business strategy for a category of responsibility to achieve departmental sales gross margin and turnover objectives for a worldwide omni-channel retail organization.
• Responsible for the leadership supervision and development of a staff consisting Assistant Buyer and Merchandiser.
• Analyzes market trends and offerings to develop execute and maintain merchandise stock assortments business strategies and goals and seasonal plans for assigned merchandise departments.
• Negotiates with vendors to obtain most favorable prices and allowances to achieve sales and profit objectives for basic and seasonal merchandise.
• Manages vendor performance.
• Global sourcing for private label seasonal and basic merchandise as appropriate.
• Works with other cognizant codes to develop space allocation adjacencies seasonal merchandise visual guidelines and planograms for store sets and renovations.
• Develops and executes marketing plan for assigned departments. Oversees order placement and tracking to ensure timely receipt of merchandise.
• Maximize coop of market development funds.
• Works closely with the Divisional Merchandise Manager Inventory and Financial Planning Teams to plan sales gross profit and stock turn both seasonally and annually as well as maintaining an in-season forecast on a monthly basis.
• Works closely with Divisional Merchandise Manager Inventory and Financial Planning teams to analyze financial performance using tools such as but not limited to Data Warehouse and Category Scorecard to ensure established goals are being met and takes appropriate corrective action when necessary.
• Works closely with Divisional Merchandise Manager and Inventory Planning teams to determine and execute automated methods of replenishment
• Works with Financial and Inventory Planning teams to determine optimal order size inventory levels and allocations needed to achieve merchandising and financial goals.
• Prepares merchandise information and training for Communication Guide through Weekly Retail Focus Seasonal Trend Directives Merchandise Adjacency and Presentation Guides Special Unadvertised Buyer Promotions new Products and Vendor launches Flex Zone Directives Return to Vendor Directives Pricing Errors Directives Product Hold updates Ad Flyers Errors In Stock Issues
• Conducts store visits as appropriate to evaluate merchandise presentation customer demographics stock assortments and inventory levels. Works closely with store management to address and maximize business opportunities.
• Responsible for the supervision and development of a subordinate staff to include but not limited to providing associate training seminars as appropriate. - Attends trade shows and markets as appropriate
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Maintain collaborative partnerships with vendors and internal and external colleagues.
• Works under the general supervision of the Divisional Merchandise Manager.

Job description

NAVY EXCHANGE SERVICE COMMAND (NEXCOM) is seeking a Buyer to lead merchandise strategies, vendor partnerships, and teams that drive sales across our worldwide retail operation. The role offers competitive pay, strong benefits, and opportunities to support the military community we proudly serve.

The Buyer will maximize sales and profitability by developing and executing category strategies, supervising a staff, and collaborating with finance, inventory planning, and marketing teams to meet sales