Buyer / Merchandise Manager at Retail Startup
offe market
About us:
💖 Fast growing retail start-up based in LA, hiring our first Buyer / Merchandise Manager, exciting opportunity to pioneer a new shopping platform. Perfect for go-getter candidates with an entrepreneurial spirit.
💖 offe market is a new off-price retail marketplace where we sell excess and overstock inventory and pass the savings onto our customers (up to 80% off brands like Ganni, Baggu and Lisa Says Gah)! We're known as "Gen-Z's TJ Maxx".
💖 This is an exciting opportunity to get in on the ground floor at a fast-growing retail startup. The ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial mindset, is energized by the opportunity to shape the future of retail, and is a builder ready to go above and beyond.
Location: Los Angeles / Hybrid / or New York preferred
Responsibilities:
Merchandising Strategy
- ✨ Brand and Product Selection: Stay at the forefront of brands and trends by optimizing our brand matrix and product assortments.
- ✨ Cross-Channel: Develop strategies to drive both in-store and online sales channels, including visual merchandising, curating assortments, new product launches and marketing initiatives.
- ✨ Organization and operations: Maintain up-to-date merchandise launch calendar, inventory levels and on-order documents.
- ✨ Drive growth: Through product assortments, new sales tactics, inventory levels and gross margin management.
- ✨ Reporting and analysis: Identify trends, assess performance, and make data-driven recommendations to drive sales.
Brand Management
- ✨ Discovery: identify high-quality, cult-favorite brands aligned with our values and brand identity
- ✨ Outreach: Engaging written outreach to new brands, attending tradeshows and other networking events to cultivate relationships
- ✨ Onboarding: Onboard new brands onto the offe market platform, including negotiating margins and fulfillment methods, preparing contracts and agreements, finalizing and uploading the merchandise product assortment
- ✨Management: Regular communication with brands to drive close relationships and new sales tactics and marketing initiatives to optimize sell-through of product assortment.
Qualifications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- 3+ years in buying, merchandising, sales, and/or partnerships
- Existing relevant brand relationships a plus!
- Creative and strategic thinker, ready to test and innovate
- Proactive, organized, data-driven, and results-oriented
- Passionate and knowledgeable about the retail industry
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
Benefits
- Health and wellness benefits
- Paid vacation time
- Generous merchandise discounts
- Exciting growth opportunities!
If this sounds like a good fit for you, please email hi@offe.market with the subject line Buyer / Brand Manager with Resume and/or Cover Letter.