Gold Beach Lumber is looking for a highly motivated Lumber/Building Materials/Commodities Buyer to join our team in Eugene, Oregon!
About Gold Beach Lumber
We are a growing, family-owned business serving communities in Oregon for over 60 years. Gold Beach Lumber stores are convenient and offer great values on name brand products while treating our customers with a superior customer service experience.
We are part of your community and we have served generations of families with honest values that your family can count on. We also have a long history of giving back to the communities that our stores service by supporting charitable organizations and worthy causes.
If you are a great team player with a strong work ethic, great attitude and thrive to help our customers; we want to you to join our company.
Why work for Gold Beach Lumber?
Family-owned
Constantly growing and looking for new opportunities
Great work-life balance
Community involvement
Excellent work environment
We foster service with honesty, integrity, and value
We love our employees and customers!
We offer our employees:
Competitive wages
Affordable health insurance with dental, vision and other voluntary options
PTO/Sick Time
401k with company match
Employee discounts
On the job training with growth potential
About this position:
The Lumber Buyer will support the Director of Merchandising in the execution of strategies along with growing and learning to develop the long-range business strategy within the area. This role includes strong attention to detail and excellent analytical abilities to assist with vendor communication, inventory productivity management, and marketing of specific lines/categories to significantly improve profitability. The Lumber Buyer role works from our Support Headquarters in Eugene with regular store visits to support our store’s product needs.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Assortment
Assist and support the Director of Merchandising in determining the assortment of products best suited to our customer(s) needs and aligned with the merchandising strategy in each area.
Assist and execute strategies for stock items and special-order items responsible for the accuracy of the Vendor Information and Special-Order Information Files
Identify opportunities in the market by comparing competitor’s assortments, pricing, reacting to feedback from stores or vendors, including New Item Requests or Special Orders
Assist in the management of items and inventory levels to the end of their season or lifecycle; manage communication with stores and vendors as well as ensure proper inputs into Epicor to effectively execute product clearance
Assist in the completion of activities according to merchandising calendar for each business/category’s seasonality
Utilize available tools to analyze sales performance and interpret data to make action-oriented recommendations
Data Integrity
Assist in the management the product lifecycle in the creation of new items and execution of clearance strategies as needed. Obtain the necessary information for item creation and maintenance in Epicor. Maintain data integrity to support sourcing, replenishment, available to promise dates, web product content
Drive the identification of issues with data integrity, utilizing or creating exception reports as needed
Sourcing
Maintain data related to terms of sale including payment terms, lead time, delivery cadence, minimum order requirements, prepaid freight minimums
Identify alternative sources of product as necessary
Vendor Relationships
Develop collaborative relationships with vendors to ensure inquiries are responded to in a timely fashion. Sustain effective communication to perform necessary duties.
Marketing
Assist Director of Merchandising in the development of marketing strategies
Complete all data inputs needed to successfully execute marketing strategies.
Ensure print, digital and social media advertising strategies are communicated to the Merchandising & Marketing teams to ensure that all necessary activities lead to the accurate and timely execution as intended
Recommend categories and items for advertising based upon seasonal cadence or promotional activities. Group products into “stories” making headlines and messaging cleaner and easier to understand
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
The successful candidate has exceptional organization skills, keen attention to detail, ability to anticipate and resolve upstream and downstream impacts, strong written and verbal communication skills across all levels within the organization and is a resourceful problem solver.
Proficiency with MS Office applications; Word, Excel, PowerPoint including Vlookups Compass & Epicor, data comparison tools
Ability to prioritize and complete multiple projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Accountability for not only operation of departmental objectives, but cross functional team objectives & efficiencies. Understands up and downstream impacts and seeks to thoughtfully plan strategies for maximum return on minimal investment from cross functional teams
Strong analytical and interpretative skills. Ability to use reporting to recommend action.
Ability to become proficient in platforms such as Epicor & Compass
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent work experience. Specialized training or related coursework in Retail Administration, Merchandising, Business, or another related field of study desired.
Experience: Minimum of two years’ experience in a retail buying office preferred, or a related merchandising experience.