Senior Buyer - Womenswear 12Month FTC
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
Develop Seasonal Plans:
Create and execute departmental seasonal plans, ensuring alignment with Group Strategy, utilising data from various sources such as customer analytics, trend research, and competitive intelligence.
Build Profitable Product Range:
Lead workshops to develop on-brand, trend-appropriate ranges in collaboration with design and sourcing teams, ensuring alignment with critical path milestones and financial targets.
Customer Understanding & Competitive Intelligence:
Work with Marketing to understand customer needs and use market research, customer feedback, and trend data to inform product development and marketing strategies.
Trade the Product Range:
Analyse weekly sales trade reports, collaborate with planners and sourcing teams to adjust product volumes, markdowns, and promotional strategies to optimize sales performance.
People Management:
Lead and mentor a team of buyers and assistants, ensuring skills transfer and development.
Minimum requirements
• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, managing product ranges, and driving sales performance.
• Excellent leadership abilities, with a passion for mentoring and developing teams.
• Knowledge of current trends and proven ability to interpret trends and conceptualise products
• Excellent understanding of market, awareness of locally and international with a creative flair to
interpret forthcoming moods, trends and themes
• Demonstrates the ability to think strategically and formulate effective plans and strategies.
• Understanding of business and buying processes and systems
• Knowledge of markdown and mark up pricing, visibility to drive sales, sell-through
• Proven experience in delivering and executing business and BU strategy
• Ability to travel both locally and internationally
• Strong numerical and analytical skill
