Pros
The office is on Michigan Avenue near Tribune Tower
Cons
Although advertised as a buying position, it is not that at all. You cold-call at least half the day and do CYA entry on the computer the other half (so that the Tunisian management will believe that you are doing your job). The goals are extremely unrealistic, and every month you will get dragged into a conference room to belittle you about why you aren't making your goals. The action plan that management gives you doesn't work. Your objective is to source offers on closeouts from U.S. suppliers, send the offer to the real buyers in France, and wait for their response as to the goods they are interested in and how much they want to pay. While the buyers' offers are usually pretty fair, that is their landed offer; you still have to deduct freight and duty into France before you can make an offer to the supplier. Once the freight and duty are deducted, the offer is so low that about 1 in 1000 suppliers will accept the price; they can sell to domestic close-out companies for a much better price.