Senior Buyer

SENIOR BUYER

REPORTS TO: DIVISIONAL MERCHANDISE MANAGER

STATUS: EXEMPT

Boot Barn is where community comes first. We thrive on togetherness, collaboration, and belonging. We build each other up, listen intently, and implement out-of-the-box ideas. We celebrate new innovations, congratulate one another's achievements, and most importantly support each other.

At Boot Barn, we work together to make a positive impact on the world around us, and by working collectively with encouragement, we consider ourselves "Partners." With the values of the West guiding us, Boot Barn celebrates heritage, welcomes all, and values each unique Partner within our Boot Barn community.

Our vision is to offer everyone a piece of the American spirit - one handshake at a time.

The Senior Buyer is responsible for leading department strategy and financial performance while developing future merchandising talent. This role owns long-term assortment and product strategies, drives sustainable business growth, leads key vendor partnerships, and influences cross-functional initiatives across the organization. The Senior Buyer partners closely with Planning, Exclusive Brands, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Store Operations, and senior leadership to deliver sales, margin, inventory, and customer experience objectives while building the next generation of merchants.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own department strategy and financial performance, ensuring alignment with company objectives and long-term growth initiatives.
• Drive results with strong merchandise strategies and execution
• Identify opportunities for sustainable growth through category expansion, assortment optimization, and strategic vendor partnerships.
• Develop and execute long-range assortment and product strategies that support customer needs, market trends, and business goals.
• Partner with cross-functional team members to develop division key concepts, key items, promotional strategies and store assortments to ensure that product is commercially viable and provides an exciting customer store experience
• Closely coordinates with vendors the timely execution of product manufacturing and delivery
• Develops class assortment plans that quantify the seasonal buys correctly by store volume group, and address regional and lifestyle differences of our customers
• Selects product that is assorted by price point, function and fashion that promotes multiple items in each purchase
• Develops the floor set with the visual team to create the strongest impact and engage our customers to drive sales
• Responds to timely to selling and marketing opportunities to ensure the continued growth of the organization
• Provide supervisors with comprehensive vendor market reports after competitive shopping
• Lead, coach, and develop Associate Buyers, Assistant Buyers, and emerging merchandising talent.
• Demonstrates high level of quality work, attendance and appearance.
• Demonstrates high degree of professionalism in communication, attitude and teamwork with customers, peers and management.
• Adhere to all local, federal and state laws in addition to Company policies, procedures, and practices.
• Performs any other duties that may be assigned by management.