Adult Book Buyer/Manager at Changing Hands Bookstore

Adult Book Buyer/Manager

Changing Hands Bookstore

Reports to the Buying Director.
Manages 1-2 assistant buyers.

Hours: 40-45 per week
Pay rate: $52,000-$65,000 / $25- $31.25 per hour.
Benefits package includes store discounts, paid time off, and access to company partially-subsidized health, vision, dental, and other insurance options. Simple IRA contributions with up to 3% matching funds.

Changing Hands Bookstore (CHB), established in 1974, has two Arizona locations—Phoenix and Tempe—and in its combined 20,000 square feet carries new, used, and sale books, plus a large assortment of gifts. The Phoenix location houses First Draft Book Bar, a beer / wine / coffee bar. CHB hosts author and community events. The combined staff totals approximately 70 employees.

To apply: Send a letter of interest along with your resume to [email protected].

BUYING

• Working with assistant buyers, buy and reorder new books for two locations.
• Buy books with large and small publishers through Edelweiss+.
• Manage assistant and backlist buyers.
• Communicate regularly with publishers and reps staying apprised and in communication regarding policy changes, discount schedules, CHB bestsellers, staff recs, and all publisher bookstore related business.
• Oversee special orders including business-to-business, educational sales, and event books.
• Buy yearly calendars and planners.
• Research trends.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

• Work with the receiving department on receiving and returns.
• Work with store managers to coordinate publisher culls and annual inventory.
• Coordinate Above the Treeline and POS reports, analyzing turns.
• Work with used book and remainder managers on inventory and cross-training.

MARKETING & PROGRAMMING

• Work with marketing to coordinate opportunities for programs and events.

Qualifications include:

• Book buying experience.
• Excellent communication skills both spoken and written.
• Capability to organize and prioritize competing daily and long-term demands.
• Proactive, hands-on, strategic thinking with problem-solving focus.
• Budget management.
• Read across genres, including fiction and nonfiction.
• Able to lift 50 pounds.