Assistant Buyer

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St. Petersburg, FL
1-3 Years Experience
Digital Media • eCommerce • Retail
The Role
As an Assistant Buyer, you'll kick start your merchandising career by identifying and negotiating products, analyzing sales trends, and building relationships with vendors. You'll manage daily operations and support the Buyer in their absence, ensuring a smooth buying process and contributing to performance across platforms.
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The Opportunity

Join us as an Assistant Buyer to kick start or flourish in your merchandise buying career at HSN, in St. Petersburg, Florida!. This role is hybrid where you will come into the office around 4-5 days a month and work the remainder from home. We offer and support our team members with work life balance! These roles prepare you for Buyer I positions where you will lead a Assistant Buyer and analyze sales, return rates, customer reviews, new names and the products and brands that resonate with our customers.

Who We Are

We are a compelling team of merchants offering our consumer and internal team members an amazing experience. Our Talent and development team is here to support your career growth and leadership is developed across all levels to grow you into your next Buyer I role. In these roles, you will have great exposure to top national brands and be an important contributor for the respective buying office you support.

Your Impact

  • You will identify, negotiate products, price and terms, buy and build new products, concepts, shows, and ideas to deliver sales results across our multi-platforms.

  • You will develop a sense for merchandising from recognizing product and customer trends to the ability to translate these trends into actual ideas/concepts/products/shows to resonate with HSN customers for the category of business.

  • You will manage daily office operations and administrative work.

  • You will communicate with vendors and cross-functional departments. Develop internal relationships and external vendor relationships.

  • You will Lead the office function in the absence of the Buyer. Perform responsibilities according to company procedures.

What You Bring

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent business experience in corporate buying.

  • 1+ Years related work experience.

  • Make oral and written presentations. Ability and confidence to present opinions and thoughts.

  • Access and enter information using automated systems (e.g., windows-based computer) quickly.

#LI-KS

Join us as we enrich life’s everyday moments – including yours. Apply today! 

If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, fashion, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate flexible working options, our Qurated community, where intentional connections matter and a company committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members! We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with Qurate Retail Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers! 

For Qurate Retail Group, our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, Qurate Retail Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.

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The Company
HQ: West Chester, PA
10,001 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Curated Experiences. Infinite Possibilities.®

We believe in a Third Way to Shop® – beyond transactional ecommerce or traditional brick-and-mortar stores – for customers who crave engaging shopping experiences.

We're a select group of diverse businesses that provide customers with curated collections of unique products, made personal and relevant by the power of storytelling. We combine the best of retail, media, and social to curate experiences, conversations, and communities for millions of highly discerning shoppers. We bring joy, inspiration, and humanity to shopping. We also curate large audiences, across our many platforms, for our thousands of brand vendors.

Qurate Retail Group comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill®, and Grandin Road®. We reach approximately 218 million homes worldwide via 14 television networks and reach millions more via multiple streaming services, social pages, mobile apps, websites, print catalogs, and in-store destinations.

We're a world leader in video commerce globally, among the top ecommerce retailers in North America (according to Digital Commerce 360), and a leader in mobile commerce and social commerce.

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