Manager of Vendor and Buyer Engagement

Job Description

TJX Companies. At TJX Companies, 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 four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx—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.

As the Manager of Vendor and Buyer Engagement, you are the front‑line engagement and liaison between the merchants, vendors and logistics operations group to ensure goods move through the supply chain timely and most cost‑efficient from vendor to stores. You are accountable for creating and implementing business enablement strategies that support the TJX off‑price model of delivering value to our customers.

In this role you will design and execute strategies that enable the company to grow while providing excellent service to vendors and merchants, enhancing operational efficiency, and driving profitability.

• Both internal and external consulting on how to structure a buy to move goods through the supply chain in the most timely and cost‑effective manner to support sales.
• Assisting in taking merchandise concepts and initiatives through fruition.

• Manage all aspects of POE up until the point that goods are “available” at the destination port including PO writing and compliance, vendor and buyer management and compliance, liaison with decon providers, forecasting and tracking, KPIs/performance.

• Proactively partner with logistics operations groups to understand what operational impacts freight moving through the supply has on PO lead times.
• Monitor and manage communication on all delays, priorities and expedites surrounding flow of merchandise through the supply chain for groups including buying, planning, GBOs, product dev.
• Develop and communicate all calendars and lead‑time cutoffs to concerning parties and monitor POs for exceptions.

• Manage all aspects of pre‑ticketing programs in all divisions with the exception of the European division.
• Develop, collaborate and implement ticketing short‑term and long‑term strategies to support TJX growth and business needs.
• Responsible for selecting and implementing new providers.
• Work closely with 3PL providers to develop innovations and enhancements that benefit our vendors for the ease of doing business with TJX.
• Provide technical training to merch ops.
• Responsible for all aspects ticket bureau onboarding.
• Establish KPIs and regularly analyze data.

• Vendor engagement and onboarding to all TJX Logistics practices including how to effectively and efficiently move goods through the TJX network and TJX’s requirements on value added services including ticketing, labeling, packing.
• Merchant/merch ops training and education including topics such as PO writing, Inco terms/freight movement, how to research where my goods are, ELCs, lead times, ticketing, and store ready.
• Distribution Services training including Store Ready, vendor compliance.
• GBO/satellite office training including topics such as PO writing, Inco terms/freight movement, ELCs, lead times, EDI, ticketing, and store ready, onboarding to logistics and warehouse education.
• Logistics training, including off‑price education, deal management, vendor structure, roles of our business partners.
• Product Development training including topics such as PO writing, Inco terms/freight movement, ELCs, lead times, EDI, ticketing, and store ready, onboarding to logistics and warehouse education.

• Partner with areas to understand the compliance issues as it relates to both the transportation of and adherence to PO requirements.…