Sr. Retail Buyer

Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Job Posted
Apr 12, 2024
Company: Curaleaf

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