Buying Assistant – Accessories
URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly)
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the assistant or associate buyer on all necessary tasks
- Managing the flow of merchandise and updating merchant boards
- Rudimentary understanding of retail math
- Sharing and communicating thoughts/opinions to managers or business groups as a whole
- Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders in all systems (MTS, IP and Blue Cherry) to ensure timely delivery
- Ensuring accuracy in all systems
- Communicating late deliveries to the buying and sales team
- Setting up new vendors and send them routing guides and pre-ticketing information
- Developing cross functional relationships with market and internal partners
- Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams
- Assisting the buying team to proof catalog copy
- Identifying photos on the Free People website and wholesale website to be reshot to drive sales
- Organizing and cataloguing samples
Requirements
- Strong communication, time management, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize projects and multitask
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint)
- Ability to grasp multiple systems quickly
- Detail oriented
- Creative thinker
- Retail or previous buying experience preferred
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- PTO
- generous employee discounts
- retirement savings
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
retail mathpurchase order managementcatalog proofingmerchandise flow management
Soft Skills
communicationtime managementinterpersonal skillsprioritizationmultitaskingdetail orientedcreative thinkingsense of urgency