The Opportunity
Join us as an Assistant Buyer in our QVC Handbags, Luggage & Fashion Accessories category. This role also manages the Extended Assortment for all accessories. This role is hybrid. We offer and support our team members with work life balance! These roles prepare you for a Senior Assistant Buyer where you will then position yourself as a 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.
Our Total Rewards package includes benefits you’ll love such as competitive compensation, paid time off, an employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and amazing company discounts! In our US market, you can also expect health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement benefits.
QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and 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, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.
If provided, salary ranges are a general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location as well as business and market conditions.
Top Skills
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.
