Retail Associate & Music and Book Buyer

Job Overview As a Retail Associate & Music and Book Buyer, you’ll create a welcoming shopping experience while selecting music and books that reflect customer interests and market trends. You’ll balance hands-on retail service with purchasing, merchandising, and inventory decisions, using sales and product data to guide choices. Your impact: Thoughtful buying and accurate inventory control help customers find relevant titles and music while supporting a well-stocked, engaging store. Duties Assist customers, maintain appealing displays, and support merchandising across in-store and e-commerce channels. Manage purchasing, sourcing, supplier and vendor relationships, contract negotiation, and vendor contract management. Use sales analysis, data collection, data interpretation, data mining, and data visualization to inform pricing, demand planning, category management, and product management. Coordinate inventory management, inventory control, logistics, and supply chain activities; identify process improvements. Apply financial analysis, profit and loss (P&L) awareness, and supply chain analytics to support procurement, strategic planning, marketing, and product development. Partner across teams, communicate business requirements, manage projects and stakeholders, and provide team leadership as needed. Qualifications Experience in retail buying, purchasing, procurement, supplier management, vendor management, or merchandising is preferred. Familiarity with Nielsen data, merchandising software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and e-commerce is an asset. Working knowledge of contracts, contract management, procurement category and contract management, direct negotiation procurement, vendor negotiation, and supply chain management. Strong financial acumen, data analysis skills, analytics, and comfort with SQL, spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office. Ability to assess industry trends, manage cross-functional communication, and build effective vendor relationships. Pay: From $18.40 per hour Expected hours: 40.0 per week Work Location: In person

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