# Buyer

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Buyer to join our team. As a Buyer, you will work with diverse vendors to choose the best product mix, both in-store and online. You will help determine where to localize, while calibrating market positioning and acting as brand managers. Your responsibilities will include:

- Planning profitable and locally relevant assortments using your grasp of guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements, and competitors

- Influencing and negotiating with vendors to achieve results and identifying gaps and opportunities

- Leading cross-functional teams to drive category results while managing progress toward sales and margin goals

- Partnering with product designers and/or category managers and vendors to guide product development

- Interacting with Associate Buyers, Senior Merchandise Specialists, the Pricing and Promotion Center of Excellence, Planning, Site Merchandising, the Item Center of Excellence, and other expert partners

Requirements:

- 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, resilience, and comfort working in 'grey areas' that are constantly changing

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. The team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually.

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. Other benefits include 401(k), employee discount, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic thinking
- analytical skills
- collaboration
- merchandising
- product development

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