Remote Assistant Buyer: Frame & Assortment Strategist

VisionWorks; United States; Remote; USD 26,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Visionworks is seeking an Assistant Buyer who is entrepreneurial and customer-focused to develop and maintain frame assortments across our network. You will partner with Buyers to create segment-level strategies, analyze frame sales by collection and brand, and ensure GMROI, sales mix, and initial mark up objectives.

This role supports sample coordination, SKU setup, order entry, and responding to store questions.

Qualifications

• Three - Five (5) years of related work experience.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to execute detailed tasks and processes.
• Strong customer focus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of optimum assortments by category/collection to match assortment segmentation strategy, including store specific needs by capacity, sales volume, and demographics.
• Communicate and manage assortment changes in conjunction with the merchandising, inventory, and visual merchandising departments in the company.
• Analyze sales trends by frame collection by segment for each network brand, bi-annually, or as needed, to recommend merchandising assortment changes per cluster, to optimize profit dollars
• Assist buyers with selection and organization of samples for each category.
• Responsible for requesting all new samples and coordination of samples.
• Assist buyers with SKU attribute set up, partnering with vendors as needed
• Assist buyers with keying in orders, frame samples, selling reports and any other processes on an as needed basis.
• Respond to store questions and requests and take action to satisfy any customer or store issues

Skills

Organizational skills

Customer focus

Verbal and written communication

Microsoft Office (PowerPoint)

Microsoft Office (Excel)

Education

High School Diploma / Associate degree

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Visionworks is seeking an Assistant Buyer who is entrepreneurial and customer-focused to develop and maintain frame assortments across our network. You will partner with Buyers to create segment-level strategies, analyze frame sales by collection and brand, and ensure GMROI, sales mix, and initial mark up objectives.

This role supports sample coordination, SKU setup, order entry, and responding to store questions.