Job Description: The Assistant Buyer should demonstrate the ability to plan and implement a business plan that improves the shopping experience, keeping us ahead of the competition as well as fiscally responsible. Delivers all daily tasks on time and accurately. Partners with marketing, advertising, logistics, data integrity, product development, and store operations in ensuring merchandising strategies are executed to achieve year-end financial goals of sales, net margin, and turnover. This position requires up to 10% travel and may require working on some weekends to meet desired objectives. Job Responsibilities: Identify fashion trends and interpret concepts to enhance product offering or customer experience. Ability to understand how own unit’s financial metrics contribute to the overall organization's metrics. Assists the Buyer with all necessary buy plans and pricing ladders to achieve sales, margin, and turnover targets for total office and area of responsibility. Facilitate milestone process for all monitored activities (business planning, plan-o-grams, out of line, assortment planning, product development/sourcing, and vendor management). Work with product development team in developing new and innovative product/designs/color ways that are unique to Jo-Ann and set us apart from the competition. Primary contact for space planning team as it relates to plan-o-grams, plan-o-guides, out of line, signage, and set-up. Ability to collaborate with space planning to improve the shopping experience. Administer marketing and advertising programs. Facilitate the ad-turn in process, including preparation of samples, ad fact sheets, and input into advertising systems that support the ad creation process. Completes ad forecasts, weekly write ups, and marketing/advertising reporting. Ability to monitor business results to include product performance, purchase performance, and post event analysis. Provide recommendations to Buyer and category management team (CMT) to improve productivity. Support the Buyer by monitoring results of competitive shopping and pricing. Job Requirements: Minimum: Qualified candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, Textiles, or related field Qualification & Experience: Minimum: Two years of experience in merchandising. Preferred: Experience in Basic, Fashion, and Seasonal categories. Experience in inventory management, space planning, and/or product development. Strong communication skills and ability to work on cross-functional teams, Attention to detail, ability to multi-task and meeting deadlines. Job Details: Company: Joann Vacancy Type: Full Time Job Location: Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area Application Deadline: N/A Apply Here careersvite.com
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