Urban Outfitters Buying Assistant - Gender Expansive
Urban Outfitters
- Philadelphia, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supporting the daily operations within designated buying area and developing partnerships with the assistant or associate buyer on all necessary tasks
- Managing the flow of merchandise and updating merchant boards
- Rudimentary understanding of retail math
- Sharing and communicating thoughts/opinions to managers or business groups as a whole
- Help to maintain accurate Buy Sheets by class.
- Entering, updating, managing, tracking, and organizing purchase orders in all systems (MTS, IP and Blue Cherry) to ensure timely delivery
- Ensuring accuracy in all systems
- Communicating late deliveries to the buying and sales team
- Developing cross functional relationships with market and internal partners
- Prioritizing and reacting with a sense of urgency to the requests from both the merchant and cross functional teams
- Organizing and cataloguing samples
- Recent grad-1 year of buying experience
- Strong communication, time management, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize projects and multitask
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint)
- Ability to grasp multiple systems quickly
- Detail oriented
- Creative thinker
- Retail or previous buying experience preferred