Buyer- Consumer Electronics/Accessories
Target is a company that helps families discover the joy of everyday life. The Buyer for Consumer Electronics/Accessories will work with diverse vendors to create profitable and locally relevant product assortments, drive financial performance, and lead category strategies across various technology products.
Responsibilities
- Help determine where to localize, while calibrating market positioning and acting as brand managers
- Own a wide SKU count so that your work is varied and challenging
- Plan profitable and locally relevant assortments using your grasp of guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements and competitors
- Influence and negotiate with vendors to achieve results and identify gaps and opportunities
- React to business results and translate financial metrics and data into actionable strategies
- Lead cross-functional teams to drive category results while managing progress toward sales and margin goals
- Partner with product designers and/or category managers and vendors to guide product development as you source appropriately for your category
- Interact with Associate Buyers, Senior Merchandise Specialists, the Pricing and Promotion Center of Excellence, Planning, Site Merchandising, the Item Center of Excellence and many other expert partners in support of your promotional planning work across channels
- Define and execute merchandising strategies across Computer Accessories, Tablets, PC Gaming, and Home Office tech, with a focus on innovation, guest-centric design, and profitable growth
Skills
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of Merchandising experience
- Strong strategic and analytical skills to grow a business
- Strong collaboration skills to partner with Cross Functional Teams
- Flexibility, resilient and comfortable working in 'grey areas' that are constantly changing
- Strong merchandising acumen with experience owning a category P&L
- Proven ability to drive sales growth, margin expansion, and market share gains
- Strategic mindset with the ability to make bold, data-driven decisions
- Experience with OB and leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders
- Passion for trends, consumer behavior, and creating differentiated retail experiences
- Detail and execution oriented with an ability to sequence multiple strategies/categories within multiple change moments at the same time
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs
- Medical
- Vision
- Dental
- Life insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
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