Erin Meyer

Responsibilities

• Manage profit margin, cost, and retails for automotive and hardware categories.
• Replace discontinued products.
• Seek new vendors, opportunity buys, trending products for automotive, hardware, and lawn and garden categories.
• Assist Senior Buyer in all aspects of Lawn and Garden.
• Manage inventory inside stores and at distribution center.
• Worked with stores and Director of Merchandise on planograms and placement of permanent floor displays.
• Create and manage issues with purchase orders.
• Manage Senior Buyers schedule, workload, and other daily tasks.

Achievements

• Helped stores during peak lawn and garden deliveries while balancing office work.
• Staying on top of my categories while being administrative assistant to Senior Buyer, and managing coupons and push notifications on Lewis First Stop app.

Responsibilities

• Keep desk of 3 category buyers organized and efficient.
• Complete auto reorders on weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis based on vendor.
• Compare purchase orders with receiving logs for discrepancies as daily task.
• Run ad sheets for weekly ads.
• Create show purchase orders, price changes, billing, invoices, and so forth.
• Lewis First Stop app weekly uploads.

Achievements

• Always ahead of work which let me help outside category buyers.
• Showed responsibility and hard work ethic to move up into buyer's assistant position.

Responsibilities

• Open and close store.
• Maintain and order for two categories; toys and infants.
• Rearrange/set planograms inside and outside of my categories.
• Guide staff to tasks and help customers with shopping needs or issues.
• Help coordinate in store events; tent sales, ladies night, Santa, etc.

Achievements

• Being in charge of employees.
• Trust from upper management.
• Making relationships with repeating customers.