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About the Role
The Assistant Buyer/Merchant supports the Senior Buyer in executing the day-to-day buying strategy, with a passion for data analysis and product. This role contributes to achieving sales, profit, and inventory targets.
Responsibilities
- Partners with Senior Buyer to understand financial aspects of the business, including budgeting and forecasting.
- Assists Senior Buyer with category and assortment planning and strategies, including financial planning, commodity work-up, key volume item identification, cluster updates, and marketing requirements.
- Creates analytical reports relating to sales, inventory, and gross margin levels.
- Creates and maintains weekly and seasonal sales reports to drive assortment, SKU, and receipt planning.
- Maximizes inventory productivity and gross profit return by proposing and evaluating markdowns and promotion efficiency.
- Analyzes product and delivery performance through post-mortem reviews, summarizing findings.
- Acts as a liaison and manages day-to-day communication with internal cross-functional teams including design, sourcing, product development, marketing, visual merchandising, and supply chain.
- Works closely with Associate Buyer to ensure buys are processed properly and purchase order deadlines are met.
- Completes weekly ad hoc reporting.
- Assists in achieving sales, profit, and inventory targets through markdown optimization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Retail Management or related field.
- Minimum 3 years of buying office experience.
- Strong retail business acumen.
- Strong passion for apparel retail.
- Must be self-motivated, have solid interpersonal and communication skills, and work well in a team environment.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Product analysis
- Financial planning
- Forecasting
- Assortment planning
- Category planning
- Sales reporting
- Inventory management
- Gross margin analysis
- Markdown optimization
- Promotion analysis
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Power Point
Location
- ON
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 3 years of buying office experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Retail Management or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000.00 - $82,500.00 per year
About the Company
- Founded in 2006, Joe Fresh is a leading source for modern style and accessible design, offering comprehensive lifestyle collections for men, women and children.
- Joe Fresh delivers quality and compelling value in categories spanning apparel, accessories, and footwear.
- Joe Fresh collections are polished and sophisticated, with a focus on essential designs that appeal to a broad range of style-savvy consumers.
- With more than 350 Joe Fresh departments from coast to coast, the Joe Fresh network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work.
- We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness, and inclusivity.
- We are looking for innovative, hardworking, and collaborative team members for our Joe Fresh team.
- Join our team in our goal of helping Canadians Live Life Well®.
- In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.
Equal Opportunity
- Joe Fresh recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength.
- We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization.
- Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.