Assistant Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Collect and review financial data, ensuring accuracy for strategic decisions.
• Assist in analyzing class and vendor performance.
• Assist in vendor communication.
• Ensure proper receipt flow, monitoring receipt of goods and tracking orders.
• Communicate stock inadequacies to the buyer.
• Optimize buying by store in order to maximize opportunities by market and follow up with appropriate allocation.
• Write and place reorders after consultation with the buyer.
• Analyze vendor performance to identify product opportunities, trends, and offerings that will impact the business and provide results.
• Assist buyer during product selection and assortment during market.
• Enter all seasonal purchases accurately into the appropriate systems and meet all deadlines.

Qualifications:

• 2 years minimum in buying office experience required; preferably in a luxury, retail environment
• Must have strong retail math skills.
• Sense of urgency, confident, self-starter, quick learner and motivated attitude.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks while multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong listening, written, and oral communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and computer skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Exhibits a strong sense of professionalism, courtesy and friendly demeanor.

Working Conditions:

• Prolonged periods of sitting, required to use hands and fingers, to handle or feel.
• Employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Physical requirements of the position/Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Employee is required to talk and hear.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• Noise level in work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Tootsies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.