Free People is looking for an Assistant Buyer who is responsible for working with the buyer and creating an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail and direct businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department. Role Responsibilities Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the buyer on all necessary tasks. Ownership of buying a product class within the buying area. The ability to conceptually plan asso... more details
Free People Assistant Buyer
LocationUS-PA-Philadelphia
ID2024-7969
Job Family
Buying
Employee Type
Regular
Position Type
Full-Time
Role Summary
Free People is looking for an Assistant Buyer who is responsible for working with the buyer and creating an exciting and timely product assortment for the retail and direct businesses that meet or exceed the sales volume and profit for the department.
Role Responsibilities
Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the buyer on all necessary tasks
Ownership of buying a product class within the buying area
The ability to conceptually plan assortments that meet financial objectives
Delegating and directing the daily activities of the assistants and provide direction to the team
Prioritizing tasks and balancing the immediate and long term needs of the business
Researching and executing development of product in the marketplace
Personnel skills to work well with cross functional partners and team to achieve plans
Working closely with planning to understand financial indicators to react and drive business
Working with the buyer to learn to determine the overall mix of market and private label product for each buying area to ensure the final mix is ultimately customer oriented
Working with buyer to place buys with conviction
Learning from buying mistakes and applying those learnings to future buys
Vocalizing opinions proactively in cross functional or larger merchant meetings
Managing the flow of merchandise
Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders to ensure timely delivery
Communicating late deliveries to the buying team
Setting up new vendors and send them routing guides and pre-ticketing information
Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams
Assisting the buying team to proof catalog copy
Identifying photos on the web to be reshot to drive sales
Role Qualifications
Minimum of two years of experience in retail buying or a similar capacity
Ability to build and maintain productive partnerships and demonstrate strong listening, oral, and written communication skills
Strong organization and prioritizing skills
Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
Detail oriented
Creative thinker
Team player
Proficient in Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint
The Perks
URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits
EEO Statement
URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.
Submit a Referral
Not finding the perfect fit?
Join our Talent Community to be notified about roles and hiring events that align with your job interests!
Job Abstracts is an independent Job Search Engine. Job Abstracts is not an agent or representative and is not endorsed, sponsored or affiliated with any employer. Job Abstracts uses proprietary technology to keep the availability and accuracy of its job listings and their details. All trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and job descriptions are the property of their respective holder. Job Abstracts does not have its members apply for a job on the jobabstracts.com website. Additionally, Job Abstracts may provide a list of third-party job listings that may not be affiliated with any employer. Please make sure you understand and agree to the website's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies you are applying on as they may differ from ours and are not in our control.
We would like to take a second to Welcome You to Job Abstracts, the nation’s largest Pure Job Board. With over 3.1 million job listings from 15,000+ Companies & Organizations, we help job searchers find careers that match their interests. As an anonymous user, you have probably discovered how easy our system is to use. However, you have just scratched the surface of what we can offer.
We encourage you to Register so you can use our most powerful features: searching with multiple terms, setting up multiple locations, establishing favorite companies, and accessing your search history. If you find a job you like, you can apply directly for it, and then, keep notes on it. We will also keep a lookout for jobs that match your search terms and email you when we find something you may like.
You can register for free and the system is free to use. If you like our system so far, click on Register and unlock the power required by serious job searchers.
Any time you conduct a search, the system shows you job matches, ranked by their Relevance Score (RS).
The score is calculated by a proprietary algorithm that uses Intelligent Machine Learning.
The Relevance Score tells you how well the job opportunity matches your search term or terms.
When not logged in, the system is limited to one search term. Scores for single term matches are usually lower.
When you register, log in, and set up multiple terms prioritized by importance, the jobs found for you will receive a much higher Relevance Score.