TJX Companies

At TJX Australia, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our Processing Centers, Corporate Offices, or our TK Maxx Retail Stores, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer. 

Job Description:

Responsible for the selection, purchase and delivery of merchandise which adheres to the merchandise philosophy of quality, price, fashion, and brand. Performs analysis to develop merchandise strategies and assortments for the Australian Buying office.

Key Responsibilities

Market

• Understands and implements negotiating skills
• Understands and determines value through the edit/selection process, evaluating fashion, quality, price, and brand.
• Determines qualities to buy according to OTB guidelines at a department, class, or item level, targeting buys to support events, features, and specific store profiles.
• Identifies and executes incentive purchases, utilizing product and/or technical knowledge.
• Maintains knowledge of market conditions regarding price, resources, and fashion as they relate to trends and key items; reacts accordingly to impact sales and gross margin.
• Develops and maintains market relationships and presence with new and existing vendors.
• Visits stores and competition to study and critique merchandise mix, price points, new labels, and timelines of merchandise.
• Pursues market for opportunistic purchases.
   

Business Analysis

• Performs ongoing analyses to be used in developing merchandise strategies and assortments, utilizing available systems resources.
• Reviews on orders to ensure competitive value and identifies future opportunities.
• Identifies needs and opportunities to determine a weekly market strategy.
• Prepares analysis, samples, and information for strategy meetings.

Administrations

• Writes, details, and follows up on purchase orders and delivery.
• Manages multiple tasks; identifies and balances departmental priorities including vendor phone calls and correspondence.
• Manages incentive purchases through all stages of sample approval, ensuring quality standards
• Manages Merchandise Assistants.
• Interacts with merchandising and support areas to solve problems.
   

Individual/Interpersonal

• Creates and maintains a work environment which supports company values and policies of the Company.
• Fosters and promotes an environment which encourages teamwork toward common goals.

Job Impact

Overall responsibility for buying unit handling muiltiple product lines of merchandise. Varies by merchandise category – buying volume could be 20-80 Million.
 

Decision Making

• Initiates 20-30 purchase orders per week.
• Makes decisions on new vendors.
• Demonstrates persistence and drive when faces with challenging situations.
• Maintains a global awareness to understand customer diversity – creates buying strategies for various geographic markets.
   

Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• College degree or equivalent.
• One to four years of buying experience required.
• Strong interpersonal skills to negotiate with vendors and interface with various division merchandise teams. Knowledge of our business model (balancing opportunistic vs. incentive) and manage through innovation, creativity, flexibility and forecasting ability in the market.
• Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.
• Requires strong analytical and negation skills.

As proud as we are of our past success, it’s our future that excites us most. We strive to provide opportunities for growth, recognition and a competitive salary and benefits package. Share our determination to think bolder and bigger, and be part of our future. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and/or sexual orientation.

Address:

60 Miller Street

Location:

AUS Australian Buying Office

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