[Hiring] Lead Fixture Purchasing Agent @Ross Stores

Role Description

The Lead Purchasing Agent, Fixture Purchasing will manage core financial and business processes for small fixture requests, fixture storage, and fixture write-offs for both Ross and dd’s Discounts. They will report to the Sr. Manager of Fixture Purchasing. This position is responsible to ensure fiscal responsibility and efficiencies are maintained through our budgeting, planning, monthly/yearly close, and forecast processes. This position will be required to regularly partner and interact with internal business partners and field leadership teams within Store Operations and Store Finance.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for building training materials, and training purchasing agents, on best practice and processes for creating and issuing purchase orders, accounts payable uploads, and asset reclasses.
• Supports Merchandising rollouts with creating and distributing fixture purchase orders and act as a single point of contact between Merchandising and shipping vendor.
• Provide weekly updates to leadership on Merchandising rollouts, and freight claims.
• Support Merchandising to drive resolution of open purchase order reports and financial closeout of all Merchandising fixture rollouts.
• Responsible for issuing purchase orders for small fixture requests, and communicating deliver dates to field leadership.
• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting for assigned discretionary accounts which includes forecasting and reconciliation, monthly and year-end close, and expenditure log maintenance.
• Assist in the creation of the Store Operations annual budgets and 5-Year Plan.

Competencies

• Analysis and Judgment
• Communication
• Business Acumen
• Drive for Results
• Solid Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Planning and Organizing
• Customer Focus

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (preferably in an analytical field).
• 4+ years of relevant work experience, with planning and forecasting experience desirable.
• Detail oriented, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and timeliness.
• Strong analytical ability – must be able to synthesize data, be able to error check and reconcile own work and be able to design analysis to answer specific questions.
• Ability to cope with pressure, multiple tasks, deadlines and rapidly changing priorities.
• Build relationships with a wide variety of internal contacts. Ability to effectively communicate and partner with multiple levels from peer to senior leaders.
• Expertise with Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, etc.).

Physical Requirements/ADA

• Job requires ability to work in an office environment, primarily on a computer.
• Requires sitting, standing, walking, hearing, talking on the telephone, attending in-person meetings, typing, and working with paper/files, etc.
• Consistent timeliness and regular attendance.
• Vision requirements: Ability to see information in print and/or electronically.
• This position may be performed remotely anywhere within the United States.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Disclaimer

This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at management’s discretion.

Ross is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider individuals for employment or promotion according to their skills, abilities and experience. We believe that it is an essential part of the Company’s overall commitment to attract, hire and develop a strong, talented and diverse workforce. Ross is committed to complying with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, physical, mental or developmental disability, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), veteran status, military status, marital or registered domestic partnership status, medical condition (including cancer or genetic characteristics), genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, as well as any other category protected by federal, state or local laws.