Buyer
Location: Sumner, WA
Category: Other
Employment Type: Contract
Job ID: 24964
Date Added: 06/04/2026
Buyer Perks:
- Remote work schedule.
- Opportunity to work for a nationally recognized outdoor brand.
- Collaborative environment with cross-functional work.
- Contract role with an immediate start.
Buyer Requirements:
- 3+ years of buying, merchandising, category management, or retail planning experience with ownership of financial results.
- Proven ability to develop assortment strategies, sales forecasts, and category business plans that drive sales, margin, and inventory goals.
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills, including experience securing favorable costs, terms, marketing support, and promotional opportunities.
- Demonstrated analytical skills with the ability to interpret market trends, customer insights, financial performance, and competitive data to inform decisions.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering across planning, marketing, digital, merchandising, replenishment, and retail teams.
Buyer Responsibilities:
- Own the financial performance and operational management of an assigned product category, driving sales, margin, inventory turn, and in-stock objectives.
- Develop and execute assortment strategies, product lifecycle plans, pricing strategies, and promotional selections that align with customer needs and business goals.
- Build and maintain strong vendor partnerships, negotiating costs, terms, freight, discounts, and marketing support while identifying new product and vendor opportunities.
- Collaborate with planning, replenishment, digital, marketing, and visual merchandising teams to ensure successful product launches, category storytelling, and execution across channels.
- Manage category workflows, style plans, product data coordination, operational issue resolution, and ongoing analysis to support category growth and profitability.
About Profiles:
An award-winning creative and marketing workforce solutions provider. Profiles places the highest caliber candidates in Fortune 500 companies and leading brands, nationwide. Our specialized recruiters represent an elite group of skilled professionals for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire positions. Profiles is headquartered in Baltimore, MD with a remote staff of entrepreneurial individuals across the nation.
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