Job Description

WHO WE ARE:

Calendar Holdings, LLC, based in Austin, Texas, is the parent company to several retail brands, including Calendars.com, Go! Games & Toys, and Attic Salt. Calendar Holdings is the world’s largest operator of holiday pop-up stores and operate nearly a thousand stores in malls, outlets, shopping centers, and lifestyle centers across the United States under Go! Calendars, Go! Games, and Go! Toys brands.

Established almost 30 years ago, we still operate with a “start-up” mentality where ideas flourish and new paths arise. This is a great opportunity to jumpstart your professional career while getting to work alongside intelligent, like-minded people. Our team is highly collaborative, motivated, nimble, and dedicated to optimize the business . . . not because they have to, but because they want to. We're serious about having fun at work, but our success is built on insight and hard work. We are dedicated to happy employees and nurturing professional growth.

As part of our core values, we are committed to the highest standards of ethics and business conduct. These standards are demonstrated in our relationships with customers, supplier, competitors and the communities in which we operate, and with each other, as employees, at every organizational level. We want our employees to embrace our core values of commitment, integrity and openness, while always working as a team to achieve optimum profitability for the company.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking to fill an ASSOCIATE BUYER role with our company. This role will report directly to the Vice President of Merchandising and will work with a wonderful collaborative team of professionals. This person will have open communication on a daily basis with the entire team and work closely with the team and VP to fulfill the objective of support the overall business.

The successful candidate must demonstrate strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, great communication skills and a strong knowledge retail knowledge. Most importantly, a good sense of humor.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in achieving financial objectives and merchandising procurement by selecting, purchasing, and promoting merchandise
• Responsible for taking action on forecasting and planning
• Utilize pre-season and in-season planning and projections throughout the year to ensure sufficient stock levels
• Develop, implement and track promotional strategies in an effort to create sales, move slow selling goods and maintain healthy inventory levels and turn.
• Merchandise stores including our mock showroom
• Work directly with vendors to negotiate best terms and product selections
• Work with stores to maximize inventories and appearance throughout the selling season.

QUALIFICATIONS/BASIC JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• 2-3 years of retail buying experience preferred
• Retail Experience (any): have worked in retail stores in past couple of years is a big plus
• Experience in dealing with overseas markets is a plus
• Ability to independently plan and carry out projects, resolve conflicts, coordinate with others on own initiative
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills
• Analytical skills, including retail math applications and analysis of sales data
• Must have strong computer skills in Excel, Word and Outlook
• Ability to quickly learn in-house Databases
• Ability to work evenings and weekends during peak season
• Highly organized, strong sense of urgency, problem solver, and extremely detail oriented
• Self-motivated; sunny disposition
• Well rounded, and able to work with multiple departments.

Calendar Holdings is an EEO employer.

Company Description

About Us: Calendar Holdings LLC, based in Austin, Texas, is the world's largest operator of holiday pop-up stores. We are the dominant retailer of calendar, game, and toy products in shopping centers nationwide. We opened our first stores in 1993, and now operate nearly a thousand stores a year in malls, lifestyle centers, and outlets across the United States under the Go! Calendars, Go! Games, and Go! Toys brands. Our mall stores range in size from a free-standing kiosk to 6,000 square foot multi-concept superstores. Our world class website, Calendars.com, offers customers a selection of more than 6,500 calendars; over 4,500 puzzles, games, and gifts; and over 3,500 other concepts (toys and books). Our team is highly collaborative, motivated, nimble, and dedicated to optimize the business . . . not because they have to, but because they want to. We're serious about having fun at work, but our success is built on insight and hard work. With 30% of employees having over 10 years of tenure, we are dedicated to happy employees and nurturing professional growth. We are committed to supporting organizations that work to benefit our community. We are environmentally conscientious, investing in solar panel arrays, recycling, a community garden, and participating in Austin Clean Sweep.