Merchandise Buyer Assistant jobs in Georgia

Work at Purchasing Power

 Position:  Assistant Buyer

Location:  Atlanta, Georgia

Who Are We:  Purchasing Power (corp.purchasingpower.com)

We are an Atlanta-based voluntary benefit company offering an industry-leading employee purchase program for brand-name consumer products, online education services and travel offerings through convenient payroll deduction, helping employees achieve financial flexibility.

The Opportunity:  The Assistant Buyer will assist Buyer(s) with a variety of merchandising functions such as assortment, pricing, vendor management, inventory planning, and forecasting. The Assistant Buyer will also assist in the management of category promotional, marketing activity and web content.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with Buyers to formulate and implement strategy for assigned categories based on customer needs, financial goals, industry trends, and competitive activity leveraging supplier’s input and expertise
• Support Buyers to optimize product pricing subject to company objectives such as revenue, and profit margin
• Maintain content database and loads to website product specifications, images, content and relevant item information
• Coordinate with cross functional resources to ensure products are correctly set up in systems
• Assist Accounts Payable with invoice resolution and pricing discrepancies
• Aid Buyers in determining best supply sources based on product strategy, supplier performance (scorecard), discounts, and over-all supplier capabilities and performance
• Act as liaison between Merchandising and other departments such as Fulfillment, Accounting, and Customer Care with high emphasis on customer service 
• Maintain consistent feedback loop with cross functional teams to monitor impacts of strategy
• Ensure policies and procedures are followed and discrepancies are documented and resolved taking ownership to deliver improvement opportunities
• Leverage retail and operational best practices to ensure product content is most effective in communicating value to the end user as well as employer audience

The Experience You Will Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• 2 years of Merchandising, Purchasing and Planning experience in a fast-paced environment
• Proven knowledge of forecasting and inventory management
• Experience in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word)
• Retail Industry experience with concentration in computers, consumer electronics and/or furniture
• Process documentation experience
• Exceptional analytical skills and data oriented
• Must be reliable, take initiative, and be able to work in fast paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Oracle system
• Experience in Retail or eCommerce industry

Your Well Being:

• Hybrid work model (Onsite/Offsite)
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, company paid Basic Life/AD&D
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Flexible PTO
• Career Development
• Employee Purchase Program

What We Stand For:

• We act with intensity, urgency and a passion for supporting our customers and growing our business.  We strive for excellence.
• We hold ourselves accountable and expect it of each other.  We attack problems with a positive “can do” attitude.  We do what we say we’ll do.
• We deliver as one team, working together with integrity, respect, trust, transparency, and fun.  We are better because we work here.
• We believe our unique diversity and authenticity makes us a better company, allows us to be our best selves and is a competitive advantage.
• We exhibit innate curiosity and creativity to innovate and reimagine how things can be done.  We ask, is there a better way?

Purchasing Power is an equal opportunity employer. At Purchasing Power, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.