Senior Merchant (HOME)

Senior Buyer / Senior Merchant (HOME)

We are seeking a hands-on, product-focused Senior Buyer to lead assortment strategy, product development, and day-to-day account management across key retail partners in the Off-Price space for soft goods home products.

Responsibilities

• Identify market trends, competitive insights, and product opportunities.


• Partner with design, product development, and sourcing teams to create commercially relevant assortments.


• Build retailer-specific assortment strategies across product, pricing, materials, and trends.


• Evaluate existing product lines and make recommendations on what to strengthen, revise, or discontinue.


• Support major retailer meetings with product selection, assortment strategy, and presentation planning.


• Translate buyer feedback into actionable product development priorities.


• Monitor retail stores and online competitors to identify opportunities and white space.


• Ensure products meet cost, retail, quality, and perceived-value expectations.


• Oversee order management, including on-time shipping, sample timing, and production follow-up.


• Build and maintain strong relationships with retail accounts.

Ideal Background

Strong retail buying, merchandising, product development, and account-management experience. This role requires someone decisive, commercially minded, and comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams. Experience supporting off-price retail accounts is highly preferred.