FLOORING BUYER

Flooring Buyer

in Anoka, MN

Regular Full Time)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Purchasing

• Working with vendors and representatives to make decisions on what products to carry and which ones to no longer carry and placing those orders
• This includes decision making on display vehicles and sampling of products
• Communication with sales and Ops
• New product warranty-installation-pricing,etc..
• Assisting with showroom displays, set-up, coordination of sample distribution as necessary.

Marketing

• Putting the Marketing / Promotional calendar together
• Working with vendors / reps on promotions and coordinating rebates and vendor collaborations with promotions
• Communication with Sales / Ops on current promotions and instructions on how to execute them

CMS maintenance

Acquiring photos from vendors and general upkeep and maintenance of the website to keep it up to date and relevant

AS400 flooring vendor / sku / pricing / promotion management.

• Sku Set-up
• Vendor set-up
• Product pricing maintenance / changes
• Promotional and labor pricing up to date

Inventory Management

Overall pulse on what HOM has for flooring inventory and keeping it at acceptable levels.

K-bids

Overall management of the K-bids processes and system as well as listing of auctions and maintenance of drops / closeout / rems, etc.

Vendor rebates

Working with Accounting and Marketing to keep track of vendor rebates and making sure that we are getting the rebates and credits that were agreed upon in a timely manner.

Approval of flooring vendor bills as needed

Any other projects and duties as assigned by management

Education and / or Experience Must have or be working towards a high school diploma or general education degree (GED); and two to four years related flooring experience and / or training.

Language Skills Requires skills to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence.

Need to be able to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Demonstrate the ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in written format.

Mathematical Skills Mathematical aptitude to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Also requires skills to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and the ability to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms;

climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Adheres to safe lifting techniques, follows proper training for learned job hazards and ergonomic risk factors, participates in departmental stretching program, and overall maintains a safe working environment.

Reasoning Ability Must be able to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Need to be able to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Occasional travel is required for training and house calls. Reliable transportation is required.