Assistant Buyer
The Assistant Buyer supports Product by managing samples, maintaining accurate product data, supporting analysis, and acting as a key liaison between internal teams and vendors. This role is detail-driven, highly organized, and hands-on, with meaningful exposure to the full product lifecycle—from concept through delivery. This is an ideal role for someone with strong taste and operational rigor.
Own end-to-end sample management, including intake, tracking, evaluation, photography coordination, documentation, and physical organization
Maintain and update product information across systems, including item setup, costing, vendor details, timelines, and attributes, ensuring accuracy and consistency
Serve as a primary point of contact for vendor communications, including sample status, costing updates, timelines, and follow-ups
Support product development and sourcing initiatives by tracking milestones, updating cross-functional tools, and coordinating information flow
Monitor new purchase orders to ensure they track on schedule and to planned quantities
Oversee reorder execution by maintaining clean inventory data, reviewing performance, and flagging quantity or timing adjustments as needed
Partner with e-commerce and merchandising teams to support strategic site placement
Prepare and manage product information for launch, ensuring accurate, complete pass-off to copy, marketing and ecomm teams, including attributes, pricing, timelines, and supporting documentation.
Support product education by building selling guides and coordinating store product trainings to ensure teams are confident at launch.
Maintain shared product trackers across merchandising, creative, sourcing, and operations, and support meeting preparation, notes, and follow-ups as needed
Measured Metrics and Review Schedule
Your first review will be 90 days after your start date, then a six-month check-in and a development review annually for the duration of your employment. During each review, your performance and ability to achieve the following metrics will be evaluated.
Sample tracking accuracy- logged correctly 98-100% of time
Product Data Accuracy Rate- <2% error rate in product details
Responsiveness- All critical inquiries addressed within 1 business day
95% of new orders placed on time
Inventory workbooks kept current with no material discrepancies vs. systems
Director of Product
3010 Product
Creative, Marketing, Ecomm, CX, Retail, Manufacturing
None
40 hours, Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm
This position is full time, exempt.
In-Office/ Hybrid-Asheville
East Fork will pay you $65,000 annually at Pay Grade 3
1–3 years of experience in buying, merchandising, product development, or a related retail role
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
High attention to detail and comfort working with product data and systems
Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills
Basic inventory and sales analysis capabilities (Excel/Sheets proficiency required)
Strong follow-through and comfort with daily vendor communication
Collaborates across cultural differences
Ability to respect and communicate across lines of cultural differences
Ability to address conflict by assuming positive intent and seeking to understand
Ability to embrace a mistake w/ out fault
A commitment to center the active process of self awareness
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. This position requires a person to have the ability to perform work while stationary for prolonged periods daily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays
Sick Leave
Bereavement Leave
Paid Medical Leave
Employee Assistance Network
Court Activity Leave
Employee Discount
Employer funded $10k group life insurance plan
Employer Subsidized Health Insurance Plans
Voluntary Vision & Dental Plans
Employer matched 401(k)
Craft: Craft is not the things we make, it’s the way we make them. It’s the spirit in which we approach our work, to make it nice, to aspire to mastery, and it demonstrates our care about the person who will use the product of our work and how our work impacts their life.
Generosity: We work towards a model of shared prosperity, setting a bigger, more inclusive, more equitable table for everyone we meet - from our employees to the communities in which we live.
Consideration: We approach each other with focus, clarity, and kindness. We think deeply about the outcome and impacts of our actions, on our organization, the individuals within it, our customers, our environment, and our community.
Curiosity: We stay in our beginner's mind, humble, aware of how much we do not know, striving earnestly and open-heartedly towards our shared success.
At East Fork, we’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued. We believe that a diverse team—with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences—makes us a stronger, more creative, and more resilient company.
We recognize the ways systemic inequities have shaped our society and our industry. We're committed to doing the ongoing work of understanding those dynamics and creating a culture that actively fosters equity and belonging.
We strive to create an environment where all people can show up fully—as themselves—and contribute to something meaningful. We believe excellence comes not from sameness, but from the richness of our differences. This work is never finished, and we welcome every team member to join us in building a more inclusive East Fork.