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.
Senior Merchant (HOME) in Manhattan at 24 Seven Talent
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted last week.