Associate Buyer
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$ 68000 - 80000
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Job Description
About the Role
As an Associate Buyer of Art you will be responsible for driving growth through commercially successful products and expanding our reach in the design community through innovative partnerships. Buyers are entrepreneurial business drivers and selfstarters who can create structure and work independently with limited supervision. We are always in search of the next great uncommon good and are passionate about the people and the products we work with.
About You
You are persistent in pursuit of your goals and do not back down from a challenge. You have a knack for using data to build on current success and are not afraid to champion new ideas. You are excited to explore the possibilities of ecommerce and wont settle for business as usual.
About Us
UncommonGoods offers remarkable designs by independent makers and we do it with a positive impact on people and our planet. Learn more about our products B Corp certification Better To Give program and cool team members you might be working with.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the Art category to successfully launch new and commercially successful products based on ROI assortment and business needs
- Onboard artists and designers and develop strong relationships that support our brand and business goals; foster and grow existing relationships.
- Analyze assortment and industry trends staying current on product distribution competitive pricing and market positioning
- Initiate and develop effective vendor partnerships through market research attending trade shows and following up on product leads
- Effectively communicate with vendors in resolving issues
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure the highest level of merchandise quality and customer satisfaction
- Recommend products for print and digital marketing campaigns
- Partner with creative site merchandising and marketing teams in showcasing new items in print and on the web
- Work with both a product development team as well as vendors directly to initiate and guide designs from concept thru refinement and to launch. Perform weekly monthly and quarterly business analysis
- Achieve topline revenue new item revenue gross margin gross profit and exclusive sales goals
- Partner with planning and operations to manage cost on hand inventory and profitability.
- Perform weekly monthly and quarterly business analysis and hindsight presentations to buying team.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree preferred.
- Design eye and understanding of UG brand and market positioning.
- Strong relationship manager and negotiation skills: market and business savvy.
- Excellent analytic and communication (verbal and written) skills. Excel wiz a plus.
- Track record in design product and business negotiations; 3 years experience in buying product development and/or the consumer products industry preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel PowerPoint and retail math required
- Basic knowledge of Tableau JIRA Asana and Trello encouraged
- Basic knowledge of dropship and marketplace fulfillments encouraged
- Familiarity with drop ship encouraged
COMPANY PERKS
- Benefits:We invest in your wellbeing through subsidized medical dental and vision insurance and in your future via 401K can even invest inourfuture through team member stock options.
- Education Subsidy:We reimburse up to $5250 (the yearly IRS limit) of tuition for college coursework or professional training.
- Service:We offer eight hours of paid timeoff each year for volunteering.
- Commuter benefits:We offer a pretax discount for those who take public transportation (train bus and ferry). For those who prefer to pedal to work we offer significantly discounted yearly Citi Bike memberships and/or will provide money to help with the purchase or repair of your own bike.
- Team member discounts:Our team members can buy our goods at a 40 discount (and take our Uncommon Experience classes free).
- Work/life balance:We offer generous paid time off and we supplement New York State ShortTerm Disability for 3 weeks and New York State Paid Family Leave for 8 weeks.
- Casual environment:No need to dress upwear comfortable clothes every day. And we hold occasional fun companywide events.
- Open book policy:We share our financial results with the entire team every week in our management update email and our monthly companywide meeting UncommonCo.
- Collaborative environment:Whether its a data analyst recommending products to the buyers or a warehouse manager providing the theme for an email blast we welcome your talents and insight wherever they apply.
- Learn more about yourFMLA rightshere.
This is a fulltime salary position with an annual basesalary range of $68000$80000. This role is eligible for our annual performance bonus program and options.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
