About The Position

As an Assistant Buyer you will be a key member of the buying team and will support execution of seasonal buying strategies to achieve sales and gross margin goals. Your responsibilities will include data analytics, building and maintaining advanced reporting, and preparing and disseminating weekly, monthly, and seasonal documents.

Within this role you’ll work with your direct manager to learn and contribute to all facets of the go to market process. This role will support the Columbia Branded and Employee stores where our mission is to connect active people with their passions. You will assist in building and managing assortments that showcase the brands iconic heritage and patented technologies. This includes working with cross functional partners such as product line managers, allocation, planning, in store marketing, visual merchandising, and store operations teams.

You will build visual assortment tools and multi-year historical data analysis to inform the seasonal buy strategies. In season tasks will be focused on managing pricing and promotions along with supporting the greater team with accurate reporting and analytics using PBI dashboards and Excel.

How You’ll Make a Difference

Provide accurate data enabling teams to analyze current business trends and take action as needed
Support direct manager with in-season management, and support varied team members with seasonal buys across planning and execution by preparing documentation, collecting and analyzing data, and creating visual documentation
Participate in cross-functional meetings to gather key information and execute merchandising decisions
Create product catalogs to support seasonal strategy for leadership product reviews and retail stores, upload orders and reconciles seasonal buys

YOU ARE

Well-versed in interpersonal communication
Analytical and creative, adept at balancing both skills to create an assortment
Able to exercise effective time management
Resourceful, resilient, and confident

YOU HAVE

Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification, or equivalent experience
1-2 years of buying experience, retail merchandising, merchandise planning or allocation
Excellent Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills
Proven understanding of retail industry and retail specific metrics
Solid communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as excellent presentation skills
Illustrator experience preferred

#Hybrid

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, ID theft, and legal services). We have extensive wellness benefits and employee discounts available.