Buyer/Purchasing Agent

Job Summary As a Buyer, you will be responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing product assortments that drive sales and profitability across our wholesale and e-commerce channels. This role combines vendor management, inventory planning, and sales analysis to ensure the right products are available at the right time, price, and margin. You will collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, operations, and sales teams to support promotions, new product launches, and overall business growth.

Skills/Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• One year’s experience in purchasing, buying, or procurement preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, especially MS Word and Excel.
• Effective in working in a demanding environment.
• Desire to learn product attributes and functionality.
• Ability to organize, set priorities, and work as a team member or independently.
• Persuasive communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to spot trends in the market and translate them into products desired by our target customer.
• Ability to analyze sales reports and future projections and draw conclusions/ provide recommendations on maximizing profit.
• Ability to think creatively, solve problems and be flexible with change.
• Experience with ERP systems (AS400, Shopify, etc.)
• Data analysis skills (forecasting, etc.)
• Understanding of product lifecycle
• Experience in wholesale, retail, or beauty industry (preferred)

Job Duties

• Negotiating buying terms with vendors.
• Generating and presenting analytical reports such as market research, price comparisons, and cost analyses.
• Keeping abreast of competitors and the new products on the market.
• Review of inventory levels and maintaining adequate quantities of assigned items.
• Developing new products with existing vendors or sourcing new vendors for product ideas.
• Maintain Item Master File information for all assigned vendors’ product offerings.
• Maintain accurate records of purchases, contracts, and supplier information.
• Monitor inventory to identify slow moving items and generate ideas to move those items to optimize inventory turnover and minimize carrying cost.
• Analyze sales patterns, inventory levels and products by various vendors.
• Use analysis to leverage purchasing, reduce product cost & reduce inventory investment.
• Resolve defective goods and/or shipment discrepancies with vendors.
• Provide information for Marketing to develop catalogs and maintain website.
• Proof catalog pages and marketing materials for assigned vendors.
• Accountability for documenting purchases and all charges on assigned company credit card.
• Set up monthly promotions for assigned vendors’ product offerings.
• Maintain confidentiality of extremely sensitive information concerning costs, supplier information, etc.
• Collaborate with marketing, warehouse, and customer service teams to ensure product availability, accurate promotions, and customer satisfaction
• Additional duties as assigned.

Work Environment This job operates in a temperature-controlled office environment. Casual dress attire. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and fax machines.

Physical Demands Visual acuity, speech, hearing, and hand and eye coordination are required. Manual dexterity required to operate a computer keyboard and basic office equipment. Occasionally subject to prolonged periods of sitting with repetitive use of hands, fingers, wrists. Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs., push/pull up to 75 lbs., bend, stoop, kneel, crawl, twist, and reach.