Jersey Buyer - #1700032

BUYER | NORTH WEST | FASHION RETAILER | HYBRID | SALARY £40,000 - £45,000

• Competitive Salary DOE £


• Car Allowance


• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays


• Hybrid working


• Flexi hours

You will need to be an experienced Buyer who has a proven track record of working well under pressure, the ability to lead & inspire their team whilst also executing ambitious strategies throughout each season.
In this role you will explore your love for product whilst being a part of a creative & collaborative environment.

AS THE BUYER:

• You will have developed Buyers Admin Assistants, Assistant Buyers or Junior Buyers through challenging and nurturing them in their roles to achieve promotions & key career highlights


• Examples of reviewing ways of working and improving efficiencies


• Range Building is critical


• On boarding new suppliers


• Supplier strategy


• Supplier visits


• Multi - product background is essential

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Building lessons learnt presentations for your Head of's & Directors


• Clear ability to communicate Best & Worst indicators and building strategy points from these learnings with the wider, more junior members of the team


• Challenging and holding your direct reports accountable for the running & trading their own sub- categories


• Ensuring daily that your team feel motivated and supported with all tasks


• Review and build clear pricing architectures with merchandisers


• Plan with your Merchandiser all buys


• Build well-balanced ranges


• Ability to identify gaps within all ranges and capitalise on new opportunities


• Encourage junior members of the team to react to sales, always looking to make money for the business with new product


• Review colour, prints, shapes whilst protecting best sellers but at all times introducing newness to keep ranges moving forward


• Experience with trading from the Far East and closer to home (short & long lead) is essential


• Maintain supplier relationships whilst onboarding new suppliers to the business


• Ability to source new fabrics and trims as well as having experience sourcing more sustainable fabrications


• Experience of test and trial methods to drive newness and profit for your department


• Reputable trading performance at margin level and cash sales


• Experienced with OTB and seasonal budget management with your merchandiser


• Ability to dive into historical and new data for your department so that commercial decisions can be made from a trading point of view


• Manage Monday Trade reports and key actions for your department to take


• Ability to oversee the wider team for critical path and delivery schedule


• Manage and communicate any stock issues, delays, cancellations with the full team


• Manage and prepare for all product launches via the critical path you set for your entire department


• Manage campaign and trigger dates to ensure key styles launch on time successfully


• Work closely with Merchandiser to plan and prepare forecasting and projections for any volume programmes


• Conduct cross costing projects to protect and increase margin


• Attend trend and design meetings with internal & external stakeholders

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