Associate Buyer (On-Site; Milwaukee)

About The Role As Associate Buyer you will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet sub-category goals. You will be accountable for the end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary brands. As a key partner to Design, you will also own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.

What You’ll Do

• Own product strategy and buying decisions for National and Proprietary brands
• Incorporate customer insights, competition, category trends and hindsight to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy
• Accelerate consumer insights and drive innovation to make bold trade-offs to maximize sub-categories and brands
• Partner with store experience team to ensure optimal floor plan creation that reflects customer-facing execution of assortment vision
• Lead pricing strategy; partner with strategic pricing team to set pricing plans to realize margin targets
• Guide Assistant Merchants in the execution and season management of pricing, strategy and product selection process for Marketing, and strategy development for First Insight testing
• Identify markdowns by event and guide Assistant Merchants in the execution of markdowns
• Lead and guide Assistant Merchants in the execution of digital experience strategy
• Meet KPIs including Sales performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance and Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management
• Additional tasks may be assigned

Required What Skills You Have

• Consumer obsession
• Strong product acumen and strategic mindset focused on curating relevant assortments and product stories
• Attention to detail
• Curiosity, flexibility and resiliency
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Excellent strategic and analytical skills to deliver growth
• Market, Localization and Trend travel are required

This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You’ll work onsite from Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.