Buyer

Job Overview

BUYER  

Employment Type: Full time

Supervisor: Purchasing Manager

Location: Dubuque Corporate Office

Job Description

Responsible for purchasing hardware, paint, plumbing, electrical, tools, and welding categories. Responsibilities include purchasing products, maintaining inventory, partnering with marketing to develop strategies that deliver on key financial metrics such as sales, gross margin, and inventory turnover. Also, a Buyer is expected to assist in hiring and be responsible for managing an Associate Buyer. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3 years related experience preferred

Job Duties

• Manage categories to create the biggest impact on gross margin through leveraging of sales, inventory, and financial strategies
• Monitor and correct pricing on products
• Lead a sales-driven culture within the stores
• Utilize Line Reviews to manage products lines with a goal of creating a customer driven assortment by driving cost out, creating strategic planograms, and eliminating product redundancy
• Work cross functionally throughout the organization to facilitate sales driven product layouts, location, and merchandising improvements
• Manage inventory turnover with a focus on eliminating over ordering stocks, redundancy, and to create better flow from the warehouse
• Monitor competitors for similar items and prices
• Manage special orders, transfers and shipping errors
• Develop an action plan to increase sales or improve inventory productivity
• Stay abreast of industry trends by attending trade shows and analyze trend reports with the goal of better understanding product sales
• Actively search for new suppliers, to create a competitive vendor culture and enhance value proposition
• Cultivate and maintain a relationship with vendors in order to review new merchandise and maintain current supply
• Negotiate financial incentives, pricing and product lifts/buy backs with vendors
• Maintain a relationship with the stores to determine product opportunities and tour stores to assess issues with sales, inventory turnover, and planograms
• Develop a marketing strategy for each category of business 
• Analyze the outcome of previously advertised items to assess impact
• Determine promotional prices on products and ensure that inventory levels are within the acceptable levels for the length of the ad
• Clearly communicate with advertising at every step in the ad preparation process and proofread ads for accuracy
• Continually analyze the ad’s effectiveness and inventory movement during the ad run
• Other duties as needed

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

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.

• Experience with accounting, forecasting, projections and spreadsheet analysis
• Marketing experience
• Familiarity with software including AS400 iSeries, Windows, P.O.S., EDI, queries, IBM Client Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, SQL, SEQUEL BI tool, etc.
• Experience supervising, coaching, counseling, evaluating, training, and disciplining subordinates
• Excellent analytical, statistical analysis, decision making, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

• Exhibit a high level of business ethics to handle sensitive and confidential information

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to effectively express ideas or instructions to others

• Excellent leadership skills including enthusiasm, courtesy, empathy, and integrity
• Outstanding interpersonal, relationship building, employee coaching and development skills

Benefits

Full Time also eligible for:

• Health, dental, vision, flexible spending account

• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Competitive match on 401K
• PTO, holiday, and birthday-off pay
• Associate discount and many other benefits

Theisen’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, status as a veteran, or any other federal, state or local protected class.