The BrandAlley Group
Fashion Buyer - Footwear and Accessories
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Buyer – Footwear and Accessories
Permanent | Full-time
London (Hybrid)
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Role Description
We are looking for a Buyer to join our Footwear and Accessories team based in our London office. This is a permanent role that will involve temporarily leading the Accessories team during a period of maternity leave until May 2027. A passion for product, branded buying, and the customer is a must, plus an eagerness to work within a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will already be an experienced Buyer, ready to hit the ground running and manage the categories competently.
What will you be doing?
Responsibilities / Objectives:
- Delivering individual financials: sales, margin, and profit through trading your own category.
- Negotiating Best Prices ensuring the offer is the most competitive in the market for the duration of the campaign.
- Continual sourcing of brands, ensuring we have the best product and offers while making speedy and commercial decisions.
- Executing Daily Sales in line with monthly targets offering a balanced range with sales targeted at the customer.
- Delivering a strategy that is reviewed and flexed on a monthly basis to ensure delivery of business targets.
- Reacting in season to department performance ensuring targets maintained.
- Conveying a sense of urgency to make things happen.
- Ensuring critical path deadlines are met and the wider teams are not jeopardised.
- Understanding of competition, brands, and keeping up-to-date information on competitive sales to assure we are offering the best sale within the time the sales are live. Constantly reviewing online competition and share new ideas.
Performance
- Demonstrating market knowledge to negotiate and deliver the best value to the BA customer while delivering a high sell-through for the brand.
- Attending weekly trade meetings to analyse and establish current performance in order to deliver an action plan to ensure sales targets are met.
- Communicating with marketing and production to ensure all sales are traded and have the marketing support to overachieve.
- Arranging and attending brand meetings to create understanding of high-value negotiations and sale planning.
- Dealing with obstacles demonstrating a “can do” attitude whilst delivering accurate results.
- Maintaining a flexible and proactive approach.
- Commercial acumen.
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People development
- Responsible for developing junior team members on the Department – through coaching, training, and developing with regular reviews and constructive feedback. You would have 2 direct reports in this role.
- Ensuring performance reviews are executed twice a year and objectives and goals are agreed and monitored, in order for them to be more effective in their roles.
- Understanding the roles and responsibilities of other departments and ensuring they are supported with information required for them to perform their roles in an effective manner.
- At all times be an ambassador for BrandAlley developing and maintaining positive supplier relationships.
What you’ll bring…
The good stuff…
- An experienced Buyer with previous footwear and accessories experience
- Ability to manage the departments brand relationships, buys, and new brand pursue list.
- Exceptional negotiation skills and a demonstrated ability to secure commercial terms with suppliers.
- You’re highly organised, self-motivated, and have a flexible approach to managing high workload along with ad hoc tasks.
- You have strong analytical skills and a good knowledge of Excel to manipulate data, with the ability to drill into the detail to make commercial decisions.
- You’re a motivated individual, able to work independently and as part of a team.
- You have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- You’re proactive in problem identification and resolution.
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The great stuff…
- Experience specific to footwear and accessories and with existing brand contacts in the industry.
- Prior experience with marketplace systems, specifically Mirakl, would be advantageous.
Perks of the job…
- A modern, energetic, dynamic, and sociable office based in London's Shoreditch.
- The opportunity to work on some exciting brands supported by an inspiring and friendly team of people.
- Hybrid working (3 days per week in our co-worker office).
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday – Additional 1 day for each completed calendar year capped at 30 days!
- Holiday Buy Scheme
- 8% employer pension contribution.
- Life Assurance – 3 x your annual salary.
- Early Finish Fridays every week.
- Everyday Benefits – including Cycle to Work scheme, discounted Gym Memberships, Eyecare Vouchers.
Who are BrandAlley?
We’re the UK’s leading luxury off-price lifestyle e-tailor. A members-only site home to hundreds of some of the best high-profile labels in fashion, beauty, and home, from Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen to Molton Brown and Philip Kingsley.
We understand that privacy and the security of your personal information is extremely important. BrandAlley International collects, processes, and ensures the security of all personal data that we gather in accordance with data protection laws.
BrandAlley International are proud to be an equal opportunities employer who provide equal employment opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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