SENIOR BUYER | NORTH WEST | FASHION RETAILER | HYBRID | SALARY £60,000 - £75,000
- Competitive Salary DOE £
- Car Allowance
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working
- Flexi hours
This is a multi-product brand who are looking for a Senior Buyer.
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. You will be given the tools to have full autonomy of your departments acting more like a Buying Manager.
AS THE SENIOR 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
Zachary Daniels is a Niche, National & International Recruitment Consultancy.
Specialising in Buying, Merchandising & Ecommerce | Design, Technical, Wholesale & Production | Finance | HR & Talent | H&S & Compliance | Marketing, Digital & Technology | Property & Centre Management | Retail, Trade, Leisure & Wholesale Operations | Senior Appointments & Exec | Sales | Supply Chain & Logistics
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