Backcountry has an outstanding opportunity for an Associate Buyer in the Men’s Softgoods. Merchandising Division. Our Associate Buyers collaborate with Buyers and Senior Buyers to achieve their Merchandise Division’s financial goals. You will be empowered to implement your purchase plan, and ultimately meet and exceed your financial goals. If a fast-paced work environment coupled with the opportunity to buy the product you love, this could be a great fit for you.   About the Job

  • Assortment Selection: pricing, category/brand mix, and seasonal selection of inventory forMen’s Apparel.
  • Vendor Negotiations: discounts, terms, pricing policies, promotional periods, Close-out buys, PO compliance and issues management, image use, price-matching, and special/exclusive buys.
  • PO Management: marks vendor catalogs for SKU/PO worksheet creation, building POs (Qty/Dollar/Style Allocation, Size/Color Breakout) and ensures on time submission to vendors, timely management of PO edits, and carries out all PO type builds and maintenance (Preseason, ASAP, Closeout).
  • Promotions: Works with the Buyer to brainstorm/hindsight promotional concepts and performance and helps to set up promotional cadence for the category. Picks SKUs/links and reviews all rules pages. QA promo functionality, review and react to performance, and identify risks in promotional calendar.
  • Pricing: Works with the Buyer to set the Pre-season pricing strategy, in-line/in-Season pricing (promo periods, price matching, promotional calendar management), manage end of season price-break dates, communicate all in-season and end of season price breaks to marketing team and is responsible for assignment to the promotional calendar.
  • Inventory Management: Works with Buyers to establish Preseason PO Receipt Flow, Preseason inventory allocation, aggressively pursues Closeout opportunities to fill Closeout OTB, set in season sell-through targets, pricing strategy for slow movers, moving aged and toxic inventory, closeout inventory, manages Return to Vendor (RTV) and mark-down dollar requests with vendor, and ensures inventory management strategy aligned with company- wide financial goals.
  • Online Merchandising: Reviews/optimizes color thumbnail displayed on PLP and Search pages, oversees the boosting/sort order for responsible brands/categories, sets up Cross Sell/Up Sells tools, manages Backorders, review and optimizes site taxonomy and facets.

Desired Skills and Experience

Backcountry’s engineers are aggressive about finding new technologies to make systems better, faster, more stable, and more interesting to work on. Any developer in the company can get passionate about something new, start using it, and rally others around putting it into production.SREs at Backcountry play a crucial role in helping facilitate and provide structure to this innovation. We vet technologies for production readiness, provide deployment guidelines and support the operational environments. We strive to do this in a collaborative way with our Engineering counterparts as we work toward migrating the organization to a DevOps culture. About the Job

  • Full stack ownership databases, web servers, application servers and caching services.
  • Write and review code to provision servers, monitor systems and integrate ops workflows.
  • Develop system documentation and capacity plans.
  • Debug hard problems on our live production systems data, hardware, software, application and network.
  • Monitor system health and capacity planning and take proactive action to fix problems before they impact users.
  • Participate in an oncall rotation and serve as an escalation contact for incidents.
  • Collaborate with Development Engineering teams to build, deploy, support, and maintain new functionality.