Associate Buyer - WSS
$75,000–$95,000 year
HybridGardena, California, United States
Job Summary
Prepare selling history, competitive scans, and style performance recaps to build seasonal assortments reflecting WSS customer trends. Maintain line sheets, sample management, and SKU attributes across stores and eCommerce channels while pulling weekly selling and inventory reports to highlight business risks and opportunities. Track category performance by style, size, and channel to summarize insights and support PO creation, including cost/retail entry and product lifecycle updates. Coordinate with Planning, Allocation, Site Merchandising, Marketing, and Store Operations to support launches and in-season execution, while monitoring the competitive landscape for pricing, brand mix, and online assortment opportunities. This hybrid role involves three days in the Gardena, CA office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
Required Qualifications
- 1–3 years in retail merchandising, planning, wholesale, or related analytical role
- Strong Excel / analytical skills; ability to organize and summarize data
- Interest in product, customer behavior, and merchandising fundamentals
- Ability to manage deadlines, details, and workflow accuracy
- Experience with multi-category retail (footwear + apparel + accessories)
- Exposure to product development or PL sourcing
- ERP/PIM knowledge (RLM, Aptos, Oracle, Island Pacific, etc.)
- BI reporting tools (Power BI, Looker, Tableau)
- This is a hybrid position with in‐office work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in our Gardena, CA office
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