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Job title: Junior Buyer

Department: Product

Reports to: Senior Buyer

Role Purpose:

Supporting the Senior Buyer to plan new seasonal and core ranges. Working with Merchandising, Designers, PD, Tech and supplier partners to buy products to our required margin and delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for their own product categories, providing balance of both wardrobe staples and fashion products for our customer, which is appropriate to the market and is in line with the rest of the collections.

• Support across departments with key product details for each season.

• Constantly review social media, competitors and the wider market to identify new product opportunities.

• Review existing competitor bases and identify any new potential competitors. Highlight opportunity/risk.

• Review competitor pricing to ensure we place ourselves correctly in the market.

• Support Senior Buyer to source and build product ranges (collaborating with Merchandising) aligned to season sales budget.

• Responsible for price negotiation, in their own product categories, to ensure target margin is achieved.

• Build strong relationships with suppliers, identifying opportunities for margin growth, new style development and fabric consolidation.

• Manage the product critical path identifying priorities, ensuring P.O’s are raised on time and samples are delivered against key deadlines.

• Support with weekly and monthly trade reports and packs, identifying opportunities to drive sales growth and promotion.

• In season trading - review current product, how its selling and support Senior Buyer on restocks.

• Managing the use of any surplus fabric and greige tracker through the season.

In more detail....

• Ensure open costs are received on time

• Have visibility of fabric costs to support with fabric matrix

• Oversee photoshoot and Ecomm sample management, to ensure all products are received in time to shoot.

• Managing critical paths for each season

• Daily communication with supplier partners, via email and virtual meetings

• Bulk fabric approvals

• Provide support for BAA.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Strong negotiation skills

• Good understanding of open costs

• Proactive and excellent time management

• Team player

• Excellent organisation skills and management of CP

• Good knowledge of fabrics

• Strong communication skills to be used both internally and externally with supplier partners.

The Details (What you’ll get):

• This is a full-time role, over a four-day working week.

• Private Medical Healthcare

• Competitive Staff discount

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Employee Recognition Awards