Associate Buyer

Job Description

Job Description

ABOUT IV MEDIA BRANDS :

IV Media Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq : IMBI) is a leading interactive media company capitalizing on the convergence of entertainment, ecommerce, and advertising.

The company owns a growing global portfolio of Entertainment, Consumer Brands and Media Commerce Services businesses that cross promote and exchange data with each other to optimize the engagement experiences it creates for advertisers and consumers.

OVERVIEW

The Associate Buyer helps drive the Buyer's overall business and is accountable to help achieve sales and margin objectives.

The Associate Buyer will partner with the Buyer to develop and execute a strategy for assigned category product assortment and manages vendor relationships for the business to maximize sales and exceed customer expectations.

Additionally, the associate buyer is responsible for the item setup process, PO creation and maintenance, and vendor communication.

The associate buyer also performs general administrative tasks supporting vendor and product selection, pricing and promotion, product set-up and guest management.

Also, they perform general administrative tasks supporting vendor and product selection, pricing and promotion and product set-up.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify merchandise assortments, selects product, and helps manage vendor relationships
• Performs general administrative tasks supporting vendor and product selection, pricing and promotion and item product and vendor set-up
• This position requires close communication and engagement with vendors, photography, E-commerce and TV merchant teams. Strong project-management emphasis
• Serve as a resource for the coordination, execution and communication of overall product information and detail for : Customer Service, Media Production and Programming, Marketing and Legal
• Communication and execution of product level information with vendors
• Support inventory purchase order process through data entry, maintenance, and tracking
• Partner with Planning and cross functional teams to ensure product is available to all ShopHQ mediums
• Identifies and recommends new products or business opportunities
• Responsible for collaborating with cross-functional groups to ensure successful vendor assortment launch
• Utilizing many reporting resources, analyze existing style productivity, vendor performance and deliver recommendations for action plans
• Analyze industry, competitor, and category trends to identify new product opportunities
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 1 or more years of experience in retail environment (Multichannel experience preferred)
• Attention to detail
• Flexible and adaptable
• Strong communication skills
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Accustomed to communicating with internal and external partners
• Able to operate independently, work closely with the buying team, and other cross functional teams
• Travel may be required

Equal opportunity employer