Merchandising team – Maple location The Buyer will utilize their existing food retail product knowledge and manage an assigned category of products including purchasing, sales, profitability, planning, vendor relationships, negotiations, SKU assortment; They will coordinate activities involved with procurement of goods and review purchase orders and confirm with vendors on pricing, availability and delivery of products.

Responsibilities

- Purchase and manage store inventory to achieve service level goals and store inventory level turns on promotional items in assigned categories

- Manage and review reports to identify issues on late deliveries, manufacturer outs, and taking appropriate action to maintain high service levels

- Manage pricing accuracy for frontline and promotional prices, insuring price integrity while achieving gross profit objectives

- Identify in-bound purchase order cost discrepancies and perform accounting reconciliation on in-bound shipments for assigned categories

- Develop strategic plans for categories, including category positioning, in-store promotions, plan-o-guides, pricing, service and inventory levels

- Complete regular reviews with stores with selected categories using various inputs, including consumer insights

- Oversee the implementation of Grocery initiatives including merchandising strategies, promotions, events, advertising, flyers

- Build relationships with vendors and negotiate an optimal merchandising mix

- Develop strong relationships with our store team members to move the company’s strategic initiatives forward.



Work in conjunction with store teams regarding merchandising products to optimize sales

- Develop sales and promotional strategies including advertising, theme events, seasonal opportunities in order to achieve category targets.

- Responsible for defining product assortment, negotiating terms and conditions of purchase orders.

- Monitor all competitive and industry activities (including trends, opportunities etc.) regarding merchandising, marketing, assortment, pricing and promotions and use findings to support continuous improvement and innovation in the category.

- Identify consumer requirements and develop merchandising plans to meet those requirements.

- Provide feedback on performance reviews for office administrative assistant and/or assistant buyer(s) that indirectly report into you.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of merchandising/management experience within the grocery retail industry

- University degree in a business related field or equivalent

- Ability to develop and implement tactical plans

- Excellent understanding of vendor and customer relationship management

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate with others as well as work independently

- Strong financial acumen (P&L;)

- Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office Products)

- Solid customer service orientation

- Strong negotiation & problem solving skills

- Strong forecasting experience

- Strong analytical, and presentation skills

- Occasional travel will be required

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