[Hiring] Assistant Buyer REMOTE
Position: Assistant Buyer
Date posted: 2025-01-03
Industry: other
Employment type: Full Time
Experience: 3 to 5 year
Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree holder
Salary: $18.33/hr – $23.50/hr
Location: San Antonio, TX, United States, REMOTE
Company: Visionworks of America
Description:
Visionworks of America
Assistant Buyer (Remote)
San Antonio, TX
$18.33/hr – $23.50/hr
About the job
Summary
Our assistant buyers are entrepreneurial, motivated, business owners who strive to present our customers with thoughtfully and responsibly curated assortments. They develop, maintain, and implement frame assortments for each network brand, by segment and capacity. The Assistant Buyer will partner with the Buyers to create an assortment strategy at the segment/cluster level. They analyze and manage the process of reviewing frame sales by collection, by network brand and segment, to meet GMROI, sales mix and initial mark up objectives.
Pay and Pay Class
Pay: $18.33 – $23.50 Hourly
Pay Class: Full Time and Remote. Up to 25% required travel as needed to support business
Essential 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
Education
- High School Diploma, Associate degree, or equivalent work experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
Experience & Background
- 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
Language Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Mathematical Skills
- Strong retail math skills
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs
Reasoning Ability
- Strong critical thinking; enjoys solving complex problems
- Ability to think logically in following procedures and instructions
Additional Responsibilities
- Ability to travel within market, regionally and nationally
- Up to 70% travel required as needed to support business
Essential Responsibilities Related To Physical Demands/Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and talk or hear. The associate is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The associate must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Required repetitive motion of sitting and using hands to finger and feel. The noise level in this location is moderate (use of computers, printers and machines).
