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Head of Buying
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Head of Buying — Interiors, Homeware & Bathroom Brands
£50,000–£60,000 + car package · Office-based, North West
You didn't get into buying to sign off someone else's ranges. You got into it to decide what sells. This is the role that hands you that decision — the whole thing.
As Head of Buying, you'd own what an established brand takes to market from top to bottom. Not a sub-category. Not a slice. The entire range. Your taste, your calls, your collections — chosen by you, developed by you, and sold nationwide with your fingerprint on them. A buying team sits behind you and an experienced operation runs the machinery, so your energy goes where it should: on product.
The autonomy most buyers wait a career for
At a big retailer you're one name on a large buying floor, boxed into a category, pushing every decision through Merchandising, Technical and three tiers of sign-off. Here you sit at the top of the function. The business behaves like a manufacturer that owns its brands but not its factories — which means your judgement about what's good, what's next and what will fly is the product strategy. Not an input to someone else's. Yours.
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The creative half of buying you rarely get to own
You'd read where interiors and homeware are heading and turn instinct into ranges that land. You'd deal directly with manufacturers internationally, see new product before the market does, and shape what gets made and how it's finished — travelling to source in person, seeing your ideas come off the line. This is the part of buying people fall in love with, and here it's the core of the job, not the bit you squeeze in around admin.
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If you can select product and read a trend, it travels. Buyer, senior buyer, category manager, product manager — from homeware, furniture, lighting, textiles, kitchens, DIY, gifting or bathrooms — the discipline is the same everywhere. Bathroom experience is a bonus, never a requirement. What matters is your eye and your commercial nerve.
A career with real altitude
This sits inside one of the UK's largest privately-owned distribution groups — a portfolio of businesses turning over well into the billions. That's a runway most buying careers never get: a clear path toward senior commercial leadership, and the freedom to move across businesses as well as up.
£50,000–£60,000 basic, significant annual bonus, a car package, and an office-based role in the North West with genuine ownership from day one.
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