At Curaleaf, we’re redefining the cannabis industry with a commitment to quality, expertise, and innovation. As a leading global cannabis provider, our brands, including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots, offer top-tier products and services in both medical and adult-use markets.
Join us to be part of a high-growth, purpose-driven company that values corporate social responsibility through our Rooted in Good initiative, which supports community outreach and positive change. At Curaleaf, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, drive innovation, and help shape the future of cannabis.
Title: Associate Retail Buyer
Location: Cincinnati or Columbus, Ohio
Job Type: Full-Time | Exempt
About the Role:
As an Associate Retail Buyer at Curaleaf, based in Ohio, you’ll support operations in both Ohio and North Dakota. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the Retail Buyer to shape product strategy, optimize pricing, promotions, and shelf placement to meet customer and financial goals. You’ll oversee sourcing, purchasing, and planning for Curaleaf and third-party products, building strong vendor relationships to secure favorable deals and enhance the customer experience.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage the full buying lifecycle, from product innovation to vendor negotiations, pricing, and promotions, while coordinating inventory logistics to meet service metrics, customer demand, and financial targets
- Develop purchasing strategies aligned with financial goals and supports product allocation across dispensaries, states, and micro-regions
- Manage supply chain data, create reports on best-sellers, promotions, and performance, and audit purchasing processes to ensure best-in-class standards
- Generate purchase orders to strengthen vendor relationships, manage new product creation, and track credit memos while implementing aging inventory strategies
- Collaborate with Store Operations to create localized assortments and sales forecasts, while building strong relationships with suppliers to ensure consistent product availability
- Analyzes the competitive landscape for opportunities and identifies cross-business projects to drive continuous improvement
What You’ll Bring:
- You have at least 1 year of experience in inventory management, new product planning, buying, merchandising, supply chain, forecasting tools, and/or assortment decision-making
- You have strong data-driven decision-making, excellent organizational skills, and effective communication with vendors and colleagues, paired with confident negotiation abilities
- You efficiently meet deadlines, leverage business data analysis and software, and thrive in fast-paced environments, working independently or as a collaborative team member
- You have the flexibility to be in the field as needed
Even Better If:
- You have advanced proficiency in MS Excel and Tableau, with experience in buying, merchandising, supply chain, and assortment decision-making
- You bring valuable experience in the cannabis industry
Curaleaf Pay Transparency
$54,000—$60,000 USD
What We Offer:
- Career Growth Opportunities
- Competitive Pay and Benefits (Health, Dental Vision)
- Generous PTO and Parental Leave
- 401(K) Retirement Plan
- Life/AD&D Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability
- Community Involvement Initiatives
- Employee Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts
Not all benefits listed above are available to all employees at all locations.
Curaleaf Awards and Achievements:
- 2023 Ragan’s Top Places to Work
- 2022 TIME100 Most Influential Companies
- 2020 Cannabis Doing Good’s Good Neighbor Award
- 2020 Minorities for Medical Marijuana’s Diversity & Inclusion Award
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Twitter: @Curaleaf_Inc
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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company, and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, Grassroots, JAMS, Find and Zero Proof provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction, and production. Home | Curaleaf | Cannabis with Confidence
Our corporate Social Responsibility is Rooted in Good. We believe in taking corporate and social responsibility very seriously, from our educational outreach to national partnerships, state-wide initiatives, and local causes. Giving back to the communities where we operate is important to us and helps to change old attitudes by showing the positive impact of cannabis in creating jobs, changing lives, and helping local communities.
Our Vision: To be the world's leading cannabis company by consistently delivering superior products and services and driving the global acceptance of cannabis.
Our Values:
- Lead and Inspire.
- Commit to Win.
- ONE Curaleaf.
- Driven to Deliver Excellence.
Curaleaf is an equal opportunity employer. Curaleaf recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Individuals adversely impacted by the war on drugs are encouraged to apply.
Current Curaleaf employees should use our internal job board to apply for current openings: https://app2.greenhouse.io/internal_job_board
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What We Do
Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to improve lives by providing clarity around cannabis and confidence around consumption. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select and Grassroots provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. In the United States, Curaleaf currently operates in 23 states with 106 dispensaries, 23 cultivation sites and more than 30 processing sites, employing over 4,800 team members.
Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Curaleaf is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol CURA and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol CURLF. For more information, please visit: https://ir.curaleaf.com.
