General Merchandise Buyer

6 months ago

London, Canada Western University Full time

**Classification & Regular Hours**:
Hours per Week: 35

Salary Grade: 14

**About Western**:
Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" - an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference.

**About Us**:
The Book Store’s mission is to support the best student experience at Western University. To help students, faculty, and staff at Western and people in our community fulfill their educational goals and life potential, we are dedicated to providing products, services and information for their academic, professional, social and cultural needs.

**Responsibilities**:
The General Merchandise Buyer will be responsible for the vendor and product selection for a wide range of products for re-sale in the general merchandise and supplies departments of the Book Store, and various locations on and off campus in order to achieve a positive financial result. The Buyer will identify market trends, forecast sales, analyze past sales performance and utilize metrics, such as cost of goods and gross margins, to develop buying strategies for upcoming fiscal year to maximize general merchandise and supplies sales. The Buyer will negotiate the best price, terms and delivery with vendors, and determine the quality and quantity of products purchased. As part of the Bookstore management team, the Buyer will participate in decisions related to strategic planning and budgeting for Retail Services.

The Buyer will be required to maintain an understanding of current and prospective trends, as well as customer needs and preferences to ensure sales and revenue targets are met or exceeded. The Buyer will work to grow custom order business and will facilitate the custom order marketing, communications and processing. The Buyer will help manage visual standards, and participate in determining marketing and merchandising strategies, including preparations for major events such as convocation. The Buyer will establish and maintain strong partnerships and relationships throughout the university by sourcing, pricing, quoting and delivering on custom orders for staff, students and faculty to help the unit achieve its goals, while ensuring that the University is professionally represented.

**Qualifications**:
**Education**:

- Undergraduate Degree in business Management/Administration or related field
- Purchasing Management Association Canada (PMAC) preferred

**Experience**:

- 4 years recent purchasing experience in a retail environment, with experience in contract development and negotiation, marketing and merchandising
- Experience providing customer service related to supplies, apparel, giftware, and promotional goods in a retail setting
- Experience supervising staff, preferably in a unionized environment
- Recent experience working with a computerized inventory system
- Experience in a higher education environment is preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Knowledge of Campus Store industry; specifically the General Merchandise and Supplies area preferred
- Knowledge of purchasing ethics, concepts and practices, and of best practices for contract development and negotiation
- In-depth knowledge of consumer preferences and demographic composition related to the University environment
- Ability to ensure expenditures and resources are within allotments, and to make appropriate modifications when required
- Proven ability to accurately manage inventory by using data from a computerized inventory system in accordance with purchasing budgets and purchasing plans
- Proven ability to identify market trends, forecasts sales, analyze past sales performance and utilize metrics such as cost of goods and gross margins to develop buying strategies
- Verbal communication skills to translate information into easily understood terms, summarize information, and provide a rationale for action
- Ability to understand customer needs and expectations and provide responsive customer service to directly and indirectly satisfy expectations
- Ability to understand the impact of buying decisions on the financial performance of Western Retail Services
- Ability to determine the life cycle of products and coordinate markdowns
- Detail-oriented with an ability to function and process information with high levels of accuracy
- Proven ability to handle multiple tasks in high-volume retail environment with urgent deadlines and time constraints
- Supervisory skills; proven ability to determine priorities and direct staff, and to lead, train and mentor staff
- A well-defined sense of diplomacy, including solid negotiation and conflict resoluti

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