Senior merchandise buyer vs assistant buyer

Differences between senior merchandise buyer and assistant buyer duties and responsibilities

Senior merchandise buyer example responsibilities.

• Coordinate and provide direction to inventory teams by managing product placement, open-to-buy, and logistics.
• Work closely with the logistics department and internal warehouse to coordinate just in time deliveries and maintain daily inventory reconciliation.
• Manage business relationship with Japanese OEM of wide-format printer engines.

Assistant buyer example responsibilities.

• Manage open-to-buy to ensure continual flow of merchandise to stores and warehouses with careful attention to advertise events and promotions.
• Inspect, grade and appraise agricultural commodities, durable goods, and merchandise for sale.
• Train employees on POS system to keep accurate sales, inventory levels, and employee hours.
• Collaborate with DMM and GMM to complete accurate financial strategy to be sign off by CEO.
• Partner with advertising to execute POS and brand driven events through mailers, email blasts and marketing.
• Analyze product trends and historical data at classification level; review IMU, AUR and penetration variances.
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