Category Buyer

The Category Buyer plays a pivotal role in managing and optimizing the purchasing strategy for a specific category of products for our wellness ecommerce and retail stores. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong negotiation skills, ability to build and maintain supplier relationships, and stay on top of industry and product trends while ensuring cost efficiency and product quality.

Essential Functions

• Manages Marketing Materials and Product Listings: Acquires and maintains all images and marketing materials in compliance with brand and company standards; oversees the accuracy and consistency of all website product listings.
• Analyzes Brand and SKU Performance: Conducts quarterly reviews of brand and SKU performance, including semiannual cost-down analyses to identify opportunities for improved profitability.
• Collaborates with Brand Partners: Facilitates quarterly reviews with brand partners to foster collaboration on marketing strategies and value-added initiatives.
• Coordinates Cross-Functional Communication: Organizes and streamlines communication across teams for product launches, development projects, and marketing campaigns, including scheduling meetings and ensuring timely follow-ups.
• Optimizes Purchase Orders: Reviews NetSuite-generated purchase orders and strategically adjusts quantities to support upcoming marketing campaigns and sales goals.
• Ensures Cost Efficiency: Implements best practices to secure the lowest cost for the company without compromising quality or operational standards.
• Identifies Emerging Brands: Proactively researches and establishes wholesale relationships with new and emerging brands to expand the company's product portfolio.
• Maintains Optimal Inventory Levels: Monitors inventory levels to ensure products are consistently in stock while maintaining efficient stock turnover and adhering to maximum days-on-hand targets.

Core Competencies

• Customer Orientation- Understands customer needs and behaviors.
• Negotiation Skills- Expertise in negotiating terms.
• Collaboration- Works cross functionally and influences stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Analytical Thinking- Interprets data, draws actionable insights, and makes data-driven decisions.
• Communication- Speaks and writes clearly and articulately.
• Teamwork- Connects and cooperates with peers and supervisors to establish an overall productive working relationship.
• Time Management- Prioritizes and manages competing project timelines.

A Little About Us

At Renew Wellness Brands, we build e-commerce stores with great subscription options at their core. We exist to provide our subscribers with products that renew and improve their lives, all with a shopping experience that offers convenience and the ability to automatically renew an order. In short, “We exist to renew you!” is our promise to our customers and our team members.

We’re profitable and growing. Renew Wellness Brands started in 1999 as the wildly successful “Magazines.com” where we developed our legendary customer service, expertise at subscriptions, technology, and marketing. Fast forward to the early 2020’s and through multiple natural vitamin and supplement company acquisitions, we pivoted to become the e-commerce company that we are today - now managing multiple brands on a daily basis. We resell products for other brands, and we own proprietary brands sold DTC and via Amazon.

We have one overarching requirement when it comes to joining our team: our Cultural Competencies. These core values are a summary of who we are and who we want to be. If you find yourself nodding your head while reading through them (next section), you’ll probably feel right at home, in which case we can’t wait to hear from you!

Core Values We Actually Live By

While we have an Employee Handbook that spells out a bunch of the specifics of the way we operate (which you’re welcome to review at any time) the way we do things can really be summed up in our Core Values:

• Wowzers: We serve our customers beyond a simple “wow” and into “Wowzers!” moments. We want their experience to be great today and even better tomorrow. This requires that we carry a tenacious can-do attitude.
• FOF It: If there is a problem, we find it, own it, and fix it. “FOF-IT” is what we call it. A team resolved to find a way, fixated on finding a solution no matter the odds, is a team that overcomes, innovates, and wins.
• Renew & Grow: It is impossible to be our best without personal, professional, and collective growth. We cannot be satisfied with where we are if we want to reach where we are going so we are committed to RENEW and GROW every team member and every team.
• U1Me2: We put you first and expect you to do the same for everyone around you. It’s a “you first, me second” servant heart attitude that we call U1Me2.
• Do Right: We do the right thing even when no one is looking. When faced with good, better, and best; we choose the best, no matter the cost. We DO RIGHT for our customers, each other, and the business.

Benefits

• Eligibility to join RWB’s benefit plans the first of the month following a 60 day waiting period. This includes medical, dental, vision, company paid short and long term disability, and group term life insurance with the option to purchase additional coverage.
• Eligibility to participate in RWB’s 401k Plan the first of the quarter following 90 days. The company matches 100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 2% deferred.
• PTO accrued on a monthly basis, beginning with 10.67 hours per month and increasing with length of service.
• Six company paid holidays and three floating holidays to be used at your convenience.
• Sixteen hours of company paid Volunteer Time Off annually to volunteer with a non-profit [501(c)3] organization of your choice.
• Employee Discount on our merchandise at 40-50% lower than retail prices, on average.
• Fitness membership discounts for Tennessee and Wisconsin residents.
• Access to Perks At Work, our employee perk program.

Required Education, Credentials, Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field
• 5+ years of related experience in buying and inventory management
• ERP experience (NetSuite preferred), including advanced inventory and supply chain management
• Intermediate skills using Excel and/or Google Sheets

Preferred Education, Credentials, Experience

• Prior experience in health and wellness industry, or any company selling vitamins, nutrition, and/or natural personal care products
• Experience in managing wholesale vendor accounts
• Ecommerce marketing and sales experience

Work Environment

Office environment with very little anticipated exposure to outdoor elements or noisy environments.

Physical Demands

Constantly or often remains in a stationary position for prolonged periods, moves about to accomplish tasks, uses fine manipulation that requires the use of the fingers, communicates with others to exchange information, enters text or data into a computer or other device, reads and comprehends text, performs tasks that require close vision and tasks that require color vision.

Occasionally reaches at or below shoulder level, stoops, crouches or kneels.

Travel

10% Travel Expected

A background check and drug screen will be required upon acceptance of a job offer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Ability to Relocate:

• Franklin, TN 37067: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person