Lead, Fixture Purchasing Jobs

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General Purpose
The Lead Purchasing Agent, Fixture Purchasing will manage core financial and business processes for small fixture requests, fixture storage, and fixture write-offs for both Ross and dd's Discounts. They will report to the Sr. Manager of Fixture Purchasing. This position is responsible to ensure fiscal responsibility and efficiencies are maintained through our budgeting, planning, monthly/yearly close, and forecast processes. This position will be required to regularly partner and interact with internal business partners and field leadership teams within Store Operations and Store Finance.
The base salary range for this role is $73,500 - $110,400. The base salary range is dependent on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, qualifications, relevant education, certifications, seniority, and location. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards vary by position and location.
Essential Functions

• Supports Merchandising rollouts with creating and distributing fixture purchase orders and act as a single point of contact between Merchandising and shipping vendor.
• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting for assigned discretionary accounts which includes forecasting and reconciliation, monthly and year-end close, and expenditure log maintenance
• Responsible for issuing purchase orders for small fixture requests, and communicating deliver dates to field leadership
• Responsible for building training materials, and training purchasing agents, on best practice and processes for creating and issuing purchase orders, accounts payable uploads, and asset reclasses
• Assist in the creation of the Store Operations annual budgets and 5-Year Plan
• Provide weekly updates to leadership on Merchandising rollouts, and freight claims
• Support Merchandising to drive resolution of open purchase order reports and financial closeout of all Merchandising fixture rollouts

Competencies

• Business Acumen
• Solid Decision Making
• Planning and Organizing
• Communication
• Analysis and Judgment
• Problem Solving
• Customer Focus
• Drive for Results

Qualifications And Special Skills Required

• Build relationships with a wide variety of internal contacts. Ability to effectively communicate and partner with multiple levels from peer to senior leaders.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience, with planning and forecasting experience desirable
• Expertise with Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, etc.).
• Detail oriented, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and timeliness.
• Bachelor's degree required (preferably in an analytical field)
• Ability to cope with pressure, multiple tasks, deadlines and rapidly changing priorities.
• Strong analytical ability - must be able to synthesize data, be able to error check and reconcile own work and be able to design analysis to answer specific questions.

Physical Requirements/Ada
This role requires regular in-office presence, including to engage in in-person team interaction, meetings and collaboration, client support, mentoring, coaching, and/or feedback. This position requires the ability to use a computer, work as part of a team, and the ability to communicate with team members and others. However, this role can perform duties effectively using a combination of in-office and remote work.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at management's discretion.
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