Golf Retail Buyer

The Retail Golf Buyer will select merchandise for Omni Hotel & Resorts golf retail locations with an opportunistic approach while maximizing opportunities through skillful inventory management. Individual should have solid financial skills, be decisive, have a good sense of urgency, and thrive in an ever changing, high pace environment. This position will produce sales growth and exceed financial objectives through product assortment selections. 

Responsibilities

1. Merchandising/Buying, assorting appropriately by market while having a consistent message that is in line with the Omni brand and its customer’s values.
2. Develop and maintain monthly property Merchandising Plans (Sales, Receipts, On Order, Markdowns, etc)
3. Regularly reviewing key performance indicators to maximize category performance.
4. Managing plans for stock levels, reorders and markdowns.
5. Developing and managing a dialogue with Directors of Retail & Golf Directors in the field to gain product feedback to ensure that product/collection supply meets demand.
6. Maintaining relationships with existing vendors and sourcing new suppliers for future products; negotiating terms.
7. Attend various markets and vendor presentations to select and assemble new collections of products.

Qualifications

1. Candidate must have minimum of 3-5 years of previous golf buying experience. Individual should have good people and communication skills and a passion for retail, a high energy level, flexible, resilient, and positive.
2. Up to date on trends
3. Strategic Financial & Product Planning
4. Managing and Measuring Work
5. Customer Focus
6. Conflict Management
7. Written Communications
8. Travel to include buying trips, property site visits and Retail Installs. Approx 30% Travel.

Omni Hotels & Resorts is an equal opportunity employer - vets/disability. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster and the following link is the OFCCP's Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination policy statement