Sr Buyer, Trading Cards

Target Brands, Inc.

$95K — $171K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of Merchandising experience
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills
  • Effective collaboration & relationship building skills
  • Flexible and resilient in changing environments
  • Consumer-obsessed with an eye for trend
  • Relentless drive for innovation and thought leadership

Responsibilities

  • Develop profitable, locally relevant product assortments
  • Negotiate with vendors to achieve category goals
  • Identify market gaps and opportunities for growth
  • Lead cross-functional teams to drive sales results
  • Translate financial metrics into actionable strategies
  • Partner with product designers and category managers
  • Collaborate with various teams to enhance promotional planning

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, vision, and dental
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Employee discount program
  • Short and long term disability coverage
  • Paid sick leave, national holidays, and vacation
Full Job Description
The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00

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.

A role in Buying means working with several diverse vendors to choose the best product mix, both in-store and online. We help determine where to localize, while calibrating market positioning and acting as brand managers. Here, you'll own a wide SKU count so that your work is varied and challenging. Through cross-functional collaboration, instinct and creativity, you will be the expert on the guest, the market and the competition.

A Senior Buyer helps create omni-channel growth by planning profitable and locally relevant assortments using your grasp of guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements and competitors. You will influence and negotiate with vendors to achieve results and identify gaps and opportunities. Your flexibility in reacting to business results and your ability to translate financial metrics and data into actionable strategies will be critical. You will lead cross-functional teams to drive category results while managing progress toward sales and margin goals. Your partnerships with product designers and/or category mangers and vendors will help guide product development as you source appropriately for your category. You will interact with Associate Buyers, Senior Merchandise Specialists, the Pricing and Promotion Center of Excellence, Planning, Site Merchandising, the Item Center of Excellence and many other expert partners in support of your promotional planning work across channels.

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

About you:
  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of Merchandising experience
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills to grow a business
  • Strong collaboration & relationship building skills to partner with cross-functional team and external partners
  • Flexible, resilient and comfortable working in "grey areas" that are constantly changing
  • Consumer-obsessed with an eye for trend and passion for pop culture, constantly looking around the corner for what fans will want next.
  • Relentless drive and innovative thought leadership, with the ability to challenge the status quo and turn big ideas into action.


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.

Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

Application deadline is : 08/31/2026

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