Jewelry Buyer | Robbins Brothers
JEWELRY BUYER
ABOUT ROBBINS BROTHERS
WE ARE (LITERALLY) IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE! There are few things in life as magical as a marriage proposal. This once-in-a-lifetime moment for our guests is part of our everyday lives. We're romantics at heart who spend our days celebrating the art of the ring, the majesty of diamonds, the perfect proposal, and something borrowed and blue. Every time we step onto a showroom floor or engage with guests virtually, our primary focus is on creating joy, plain and simple. Not bad for a day’s work!
Here, we celebrate our personal milestones as much as our guests with a supportive and rewarding work environment and one of the industry's most competitive compensation packages. We cultivate brighter futures with recognition, awards, education, mentorship, and opportunity, which helps each of us develop and grow in ways we never imagined. A career at Robbins Brothers is not just a job; it's a life-changing proposal that's impossible to refuse.
OUR CULTURE & COMMUNITY
While unwaveringly committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and multi-cultural environment—we also seek out team members who share our values. That means we actively look for people (like you) who are collaborative, open, creative, passionate, warm, curious, accommodating, and courteous, with a thirst for knowledge, a passion for jewelry, a fondness for fun, a generous heart, and a community-minded spirit. Above all, we’re looking for those who are unabashedly and unapologetically in love with love.
This spirit is seen and felt in our showrooms, offices, and core brand values that have remained unchanged for 100 years and counting.
Robbins Brothers offers a flexible work schedule that includes a combination of remote and on-site, as well as flexible hours.
THE ROLE
Reporting to the Vice President of Merchandising, the Designer Jewelry Buyer is responsible for developing and executing merchandise strategies to deliver sales, gross profit, and inventory/turnover targets through focused product assortments, and marketing strategies. This position ensures merchandise is purchased to maximize results while enhancing the overall department and company strategy. This position reports directly to the VP of Merchandising.
Responsibilities:
Leverage customer needs, industry trends, and competitive information to develop and execute merchandising strategies with strong partnerships from internal and external stakeholders.
Develop financial plans in conjunction with business strategy with a focus on growing sales, profitability, and inventory turnover.
Own product selection, negotiating the best purchase terms to maximize profit upfront; Focus assortments to offer consumer best product with a strong price value relationship to ensure optimal productivity by style.
Partner with training, marketing, and store operations to capitalize on opportunities that will drive traffic and sales to Robbins Brothers.
Own the monthly forecasting of sales, gross profit and inventory by department; Negotiate and partner with vendors to drive turn and profitability through weekly replenishment, RTVs, and the collection of vendor allowances.
Analyze and react to business performance at the top line, channel, by store and style.
Partner with eCommerce to drive top line sales and margin.
Partner with and support visual store planning to provide in-store presentation guidance.
Partner with merchandising team members to achieve company objectives.
Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years’ experience in a buying capacity, overseeing both the creative and financial aspects of merchandising
4-year related undergraduate degree preferred but not required
Strong understanding of merchandising financials, retail math and the ability to manage profitability
Ability to build and maintain strong vendor partnerships
Proven experience building a profitable business in specific categories
Strong product sensibility with preference for jewelry product experience
Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, and presentation skills
Knowledge of Open-to-Buy process
High degree of proficiency in MS Office Suite and Outlook, particularly Excel
Ability to foster a positive and motivating work environment, encouraging feedback and innovation
Ability to adapt well to change in direction and priority in a fast- paced and deadline-oriented environment
Self-motivated with critical attention to detail and deadlines
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Robbins Brothers provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
We are committed to creating an environment of inclusion and mutual respect where opportunities are available to all applicants and team members. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our team members is critical to our success as a company and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people
JOB TYPE:
Full-time
LOCATIONS:
Azusa, CA
