• Senior Buyer (On-Site)

    Kohl's (Menomonee Falls, WI)


    This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You’ll work onsite from Monday through Thursday , with the option to work remotely on Fridays .

     

    About the Role

     

    As Senior Buyer you will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet sub-category goals. You will be accountable for leading a merchandising team and cross-functional sub-category team for end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary Brands. As a key partner to Design, you will own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.

    What You’ll Do

    + Incorporate customer insights, competition and category trends to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy and respond to in-season business trends

    + Serve as the customer and competitive expert for product, brand and category

    + Communicate overarching omni-merchandising vision to category cross-functional teams

    + Lead localization product strategy

    + Curate consumer, trend and climate-appropriate product assortments

    + Operate as a key Design partner to create customer, business and brand-relevant product offerings

    + Visit relevant markets and regions to gather product and consumer information, ideate future product strategies and establish business relationships

    + Partner with Marketing team to develop sub-category marketing strategies, identify key merchandise stories, plan the timing of marketing campaigns and align on brand-consumer insights

    + Partner with omnichannel experience teams to ensure product stories come to life in store and digitally

    + Lead and develop your team, identifying and building best-in-class talent

    + Drive overall team engagement

    + Meet KPIs including Sales performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance, Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management

    + Support and execute the team vision, set clear objectives, assign and direct work, manage performance, and maintain open communications to create an effective work environment

    + Additional tasks may be assigned

     

    What Skills You Have

    Required

    + Exceptional product acumen and balanced ability to lead product creation and select relevant product

    + Catalyst of change with a growth mindset

    + Strong sense of curiosity, agility, urgency and resiliency

    + Outstanding communication and presentation skills

    + Strong collaboration and influence skills to build long-term strategic partnerships

    + Passion and eye for product and customer obsession

    + Ability to develop top talent and highly engaged teams