Company & Role Overview
Summary
Rooted in
Good.
Our Mission:
Our Vision:
Our Values:
- Lead and Inspire.
- Commit to Win.
- ONE Curaleaf.
- Driven to Deliver Excellence.
Curaleaf Culture:
About the Role:
What You'll Do:
- Drive the strategic direction of the area with the goal to make Curaleaf the most compelling place for our customers to shop by focusing on Pricing, Assortment, Brands and Promotion
- Utilize internal and external market information to anticipate trends and future customer needs to drive brand and item selection.
- Visits stores weekly to proactively understand assortments, pricing and promotion presentation
- Determine mix and category position profile and assigns a role to each category
- Drive the category/brand review process and makes recommendations based on analysis
- Work with team to develop and approve master product assortment
- Determine pricing strategy for category / product that maintains Curaleaf's pricing integrity, drives sales, and gross margin dollars
- Review pricing analysis to determine optimal pricing and ensure that Curaleaf is competitively priced within the marketplace in conjunction with Planning
- Determine promotional price based on competition, seasonality, and events
- Collaborate with Inventory Manager and Planning on inventory needs to support promotional strategy
- Collaborate with the supply chain team to ensure inventory optimization
- Evaluate marketing effectiveness and leads changes to drive increases over prior year - post promotional analysis
- Approve markdown/promotional strategy that ties to plan
- Informs and elevates markdowns/promotions that do not tie to plan to Regional SVP
- Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers, negotiate with vendors for best pricing and promotional support
- Conducting a strong, action-oriented analysis of business and long-term planning within retail stores
- Use analysis to drive assortment, pricing, and promotional placement decisions
- Utilize industry information to drive brand and item selection focusing on internal mix and competition
- Creates a bottoms up plan to meet total area financial targets
- Mentor, train and develop junior team members
- Create strong partnerships with cross-functional partners
What You'll Bring:
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree; or equivalent retail experience
- 6+ years of experience in Associate Buying/Buying role
- 5+ years of experience in the retail industry
- Buying, inventory management and analysis experience required
- Experience in buying, merchandising, supply chain, and/or assortment decision making
- Knowledge of the market, retail business and customers
- Knowledge of business drivers (e.g. pricing, promotion, assortment).
- Strong Financial Planning skills
- Strong vendor negotiation skills
- Thorough sense of product trends
- Enthusiasm, Initiative and Passion
- Proficiency in Excel and Tableau Preferred
What We Offer:
- Competitive Pay
- Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Retirement Plan - 401(K)
- Life/AD&D Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Community Involvement Through our Rooted in Good Initiative
- Employee Resource Groups
- Employee Referral Payment Program
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefits
- Employee Product Discounts
Curaleaf Awards and Achievements:
- 2023 Ragan's Top Places to Work
- 2022 TIME100 Most Influential Companies
- 2020 Cannabis Doing Good's Good Neighbor Award
- 2020: Minorities for Medical Marijuana's Diversity & Inclusion Award
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Current Curaleaf employees should use our internal job board to submit an application for current openings: https://app2.greenhouse.io/internal_job_board
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About Curaleaf
Curaleaf creates clean, reliable, trusted cannabis products for wellness and medical use. Our highly-skilled dispensary staff is trained—and dedicated!—to help you find just the right method and concentration to achieve your personal cannabis goals