Senior Buyer - Waco, United States - Magnolia

Description

**Senior Buyer**

Waco, TX, USA Req #586 Tuesday, November 16, 2021 SENIOR BUYER | JOB DESCRIPTION

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

At Magnolia, the Senior Buyer is responsible for product assortment and collection building within his or her respective division of categories. The Senior Buyer is a lead visionary for our products, by understanding trends and capitalizing on demand while understanding the Magnolia aesthetic and brand. Senior Buyers drive overarching strategy to meet financial goals and drive profitability across their scope of categories . This position works from our headquarters in Waco, Texas.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP

This position reports to the Vice President of Merchandising + Planning.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has supervisory responsibilities.

AVAILABILITY

Full-time salaried position = 40+ hours per week

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Uphold Magnolias mission, vision, and values

Manage a division of categories to include decorative, textiles, tabletop, and furniture with 3 direct reports by building the assortment, driving sales to meet assigned targets, and ensuring compelling product storytelling

Establish strong collaboration with Merchandise Planning partners to analyze, forecast, and achieve category performance and plans

Provide clear, trustworthy leadership by driving team growth (collectively and individually), ensuring high-quality output, and setting measurable, achievable goals

Recommend and lead merchandising strategy; develop plans to implement strategy and oversee the execution

Act as an expert on current and upcoming trends for managed division while maintaining Magnolias aesthetic, design, and vision

Identify assortment and process opportunities for growth and improvement by establishing action plan to implement and maintain

Effectively partner with Product Design and Sourcing to create clear concepts for teams to implement in the assortment and to improve on process and communication

Effectively partner with Marketing and Creative to provide direction and feedback to implement targeted sales plans

Confidently present weekly, monthly, and quarterly business performance for categories to upper management

Monitor and manage vendor performance to maximize sales and profitability

Actively model how to react to uptrending and downtrending business and use learnings for future assortment

Drive profitability by setting margin targets for team and partnering with team to achieve those targets

Understand market dynamics and competitive landscape for categories and assortment; maintain pulse on changing customer preferences and emerging trends

Identify and elevate strategic opportunities in the assortment, promotions, pricing, on-site experience, in-store

Perform other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Ability to articulate Magnolias brand values, design, and aesthetic

Experience in furniture and textiles preferred

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelors degree and 5-10 years of relevant experience required

Proven managerial experience required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EOE Statement:

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee in this classification. It is not to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications of employees assigned to this job. Management has the right to add to, revise, or delete information in this description at any time.

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Pay Type Salary