Associate Buyer – Hard Goods

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Park City, UT
Hybrid
Junior
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
The Associate Buyer works with the Merchandising team on product assortment, vendor management, PO management, online merchandising, and pricing strategy for hard goods at Backcountry.
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At Backcountry, our mission is to connect people to their passions. Our four online stores—Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, MotoSport and, SteepandCheap—aim to supply our customers with the gear, knowledge, and inspiration necessary to get out there and chase down life’s greatest moments. We do this by providing the biggest and best assortment of premium outdoor products, superior shopping experience, personalized Gearhead expertise, lightning-fast and accurate fulfillment, and inspirational, informative, and community-centered content. 


The Associate Buyer – Hard Goods works with the Merchandising team to achieve the financial goals of the following Hard Goods, Camp business. This role is challenging – above and beyond the day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have a big role within a fast-paced team.  This position will report into the Divisional Merchandise Manager, Hard Goods.


This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week in our headquarters in Park City, UT. 

What you get to do every day:

  • Assortment Selection: pricing, category/brand mix, and seasonal selection of inventory for the category
  • Vendor Management and Negotiations: discounts, terms, pricing policies, promotional periods, PO compliance and issues management, image use, price-matching, and special/exclusive buys
  • PO Management: marks vendor catalogs for SKU/PO worksheet creation, building POs (Qty/Dollar/Style Allocation, Size/Color Breakout) and ensures on time submission to vendors, timely management of PO edits, past dues and carries out all PO type builds and maintenance (Pre-season, ASAP)
  • Promotions: Works with Marketing to brainstorm/hindsight Promo concepts and performance and helps to set up the promotional cadence for the category. Picks SKU’s/links and reviews all rules pages. QA promo functionality, review and react to performance, and identify risks in promotional calendar.
  • Pricing: Works with the Planner to set the Pre-season pricing strategy, in-line/in-Season pricing (promo periods, price matching, promotional calendar management), manage end of season price-break dates, communicate all in-season and end of season price breaks to marketing team and is responsible for assignment to the promotional calendar.
  • Inventory Management: Works with the Planner to establish Preseason PO Receipt Flow, Preseason inventory allocation, set in season sell-through targets, pricing strategy for slow movers, moving aged and toxic inventory, manages Return to Vendor (RTV) and mark-down dollar requests with vendor, and ensures inventory management strategy aligned with company-wide financial goals
  • Online Merchandising: reviews/optimizes color thumbnail displayed on PLP and Search pages, oversees the boosting/sort order for responsible brands/categories, sets up Cross Sell/Up Sells tools, manages Backorders, review and optimizes site taxonomy and facets, and utilized Kit Calculator as required per category

What you bring to the role:

  • 1-3 years of relevant Industry Merchandising and Buying experience
  • Expertise in outdoor brands and merchandising preferred
  • Experience with Camping, Fishing and Water Sports Merchandise preferred
  • Willingness and ability to travel to as needed
  • Solid foundation of Retail Math and Buying Fundamentals
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (proficiency in Excel a must)
  • Excellent organizational skills and extreme attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Outstanding time management skills
  • Ability to perform under pressure and prioritize competing tasks/initiatives

What’s in it for you?

  • PTO  
  • Medical/Dental/Vision and a variety of supplemental policies available  
  • Company 401K match 
  • Company Health Spending Account (HSA) match 
  • Company provides group life insurance at no cost  
  • COBRA reimbursement for salaried employees until health insurance eligible  
  • Paid Holidays  
  • Birthday off with pay! 
  • Pet Insurance 
  • Generous employee discounts 

What our interview process looks like:

  • Depending on the position, our application and interview process may vary, but here are some of the ways we get to know you better: 
  • 📞 Step 1: Match most of the requirements and qualifications for the position? We want to chat. A recruiter will reach out to you via email to schedule some time to learn more about our company and get to know you better. Remember, you’re also interviewing us! 
  • 📝 Step 2: Our assessments (if applicable to the role) measure your analytical and business acumen. We use them to better understand your expertise. Each person interviewing for the same role receives the same assessment, which helps us evaluate candidates equally and consistently. 
  • 👩🏽‍💻Step 3: Virtual or in-person interviews depending on your location. Our hiring team will learn more about your prior experience and challenges you’ve faced. Be prepared with detailed examples. Concise and well-organized answers are ideal. 
  • ✍🏽 Step 4: Offer! This is where things get really exciting. We gather all data from your interviews and conduct a final review. If qualified for the position, your recruiter will connect with you via phone to present a verbal offer we know you’ll be excited about. 

CSC Generation family of brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state or local laws.  

  

CSC Generation family of brands is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].  


CSC Generation Holdings family of brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state or local laws. 

 

CSC Generation Holdings family of brands is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, CSC Generation will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected]

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The Company
HQ: Merrillville, IN
163 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

We acquire overlooked store and catalogue based retailers and transform them into high performance, "digital first” brands through our proven omni-channel technology platform, operating expertise and scale.

Founded by Justin Yoshimura and backed by world class investors.

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