Associate Buyer - Premium Collectibles / Trading Cards

Target Brands, Inc.

$58K — $104K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong financial, strategic, and planning skills
  • Excellent analytical, decision-making, and organizational abilities
  • Proven leadership skills and self-starter attitude
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable to change
  • 1+ years of merchandising experience preferred
  • Effective communicator and relationship builder with influencing skills

Responsibilities

  • Execute advertising plans for assigned categories
  • Analyze market trends and evaluate competitor strategies
  • Coordinate promotional activities for Buyer review
  • Assist with item descriptions and markdown updates
  • Generate reports to track category performance
  • Collaborate with product design and sourcing teams
  • Manage vendor communication to enhance sales outcomes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, vision, and dental
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Employee discount program
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Paid sick leave and national holidays
  • Paid vacation time
Full Job Description
The pay range is $58,100.00 - $104,600.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

As an Associate Buyer, you'll execute advertising plans and strategies for your category via ad item selection, space allocation planning, pricing, ad volume forecasting and productivity analysis. You'll watch market trends, evaluate competitors, plan assortments and coordinate end-to-end promotional activities for the Buyer to review. In addition, you'll help Buyers with system input of item descriptions and markdown updates, and you'll generate reports to analyze weekly and monthly category metrics. In partnership with product design and sourcing, you will support the Buyer in guiding product development and executing the financial plan for your categories. Aligning with cross-functional partners, you will manage communication with vendors to maximize sales and profit. Your unique strategic perspective will be integral to Buyers selecting items and assortments.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:
  • A four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong financial, strategic and planning skills Entrepreneurial spirit with strong analytical, decision-making, and organization skills
  • A performance-driven individual who demonstrates strong initiative and has superior leadership skills Flexibility and resiliency; comfortable working in "grey areas" that are constantly changing
  • Comfortable taking risks, working through change and supporting creative chances
  • 1+ years merchandising experience preferred
  • Resourceful and action-oriented, with a "figure-it-out" mindset and the ability to quickly build the right partnerships to solve problems.
  • A strong communicator and relationship builder, capable of influencing cross-functional teams and external partners without direct authority.


This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 08/16/2026

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