On-Site Retail Buying & Procurement Leader

Valley Wide Cooperative; Nampa (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Valley Wide Cooperative seeks a Procurement Manager to lead the Retail Buying Team and drive enterprise-wide procurement, merchandising strategy, category management, and supplier relations. This on-site role is based in Nampa, Idaho, with a focus on assortment planning, inventory productivity, and margin improvement across farm and ranch, hardware, deli, and other retail categories.

The candidate will establish disciplined buying practices, develop buyers, negotiate costs, and ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, merchandising, supply chain, retail management, or a related field preferred.
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in retail buying, merchandising, category management, or procurement.
• At least two years leading, managing, and developing a retail buying, merchandising, category-management, or retail operations team.
• Experience working with ERP and POS systems, procurement platforms, inventory-management systems, and retail analytics or BI tools.
• Strong negotiation and supplier-management experience, including product costs, freight, rebates, and payment terms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Valley Wide Retail Buying Team with category ownership.
• Establish category ownership, annual business plans, performance expectations, and decision rights.
• Develop buyer capabilities in category management, assortment planning, negotiations, pricing, promotions, and inventory management.
• Conduct regular buyer and category performance reviews tied to measurable financial and operating results.
• Lead assortment and category strategy across all formats and merchandise categories.
• Ensure product selections reflect customer demand, store format, local-market needs, seasonality, and company strategy.
• Identify assortment gaps, duplication, underperforming SKUs, and category growth opportunities.
• Manage category lifecycle decisions, including additions, deletions, resets, and product transitions.
• Negotiate product costs, freight, rebates, promotional funding, payment terms, and supplier support.
• Build strategic supplier relationships and establish vendor scorecards for service, quality, profitability, fill rate, and responsiveness.
• Improve inventory turns, in-stock performance, replenishment, and order discipline.
• Use ERP, POS, procurement, inventory-management, and BI platforms to support decisions and execution.
• Partner with Retail Operations to improve merchandising consistency, resets, promotions, and new-item execution.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Retail analytics

Team development

ERP & POS systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/merchandising/supply chain/retail management

Tools

ERP systems

POS systems

Inventory management systems

BI tools

Job description

Valley Wide Cooperative seeks a Procurement Manager to lead the Retail Buying Team and drive enterprise-wide procurement, merchandising strategy, category management, and supplier relations. This on-site role is based in Nampa, Idaho, with a focus on assortment planning, inventory productivity, and margin improvement across farm and ranch, hardware, deli, and other retail categories.

The candidate will establish disciplined buying practices, develop buyers, negotiate costs, and ensure