Olivia Hughes Recruitment Limited
Womenswear Senior Buyer
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Senior Buyer - Womenswear - Day Tops and Dresses - £50-60,000
This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the UK’s fastest growing fashion brands as a Womenswear Buyer, working across the daywear dresses and tops categories.
This company is expanding as a result of its success to date and if you would like the opportunity to bring your passion for fashion to a place where you can make your mark and develop your career, then this could be the right opportunity for you.
This role will either suit someone who is currently a Buyer and looking for their next step, or someone currently operating at Senior Buyer level looking for a new challenge within a forward-thinking and fast-paced buying team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsibility and ownership for delivering commercial ranges across the daywear dresses and tops categories.
- Support and mentor junior members of the buying team.
- Working with the Merchandiser to deliver robust seasonal and quarterly plans.
- Working closely with Designers to deliver on brand quality ranges at speed.
- Building balanced ranges across fabrication, shape, trims, colour and price point.
- Manage the weekly buy for your categories, alongside the Designer.
- Trade weekly – ensuring forward stock is reflective of weekly trading patterns, managing the intake to ensure stock is landing at the right time.
- Responsibility for the critical path and ensuring that deadlines are being met.
- Deliver department strategies and performance updates to senior stakeholders.
- Ensure the customer is at the heart of all decisions, including colour, print, design and fit.
- Review and analyse data to drive commercial buying decisions.
- Identify trends, gaps and new opportunities to maximise sales.
- Contribute to improving processes and introducing new ways of working as the business continues to grow.
- Deliver against agreed KPIs including sales, margin and stock targets.
- Manage supplier relationships – identifying risks and opportunities alongside the technical, design and sourcing teams.
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- Proven womenswear fashion buying experience within a fast-paced environment.
- A strong commercial eye and a real passion for product.
- Ideally you will have buying experience working across online/e-commerce and bricks and mortar retail.
- Strong range planning and building skills.
- The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge and experience of working with varying types of fabrications and price points.
- Extremely organised with the ability to prioritise and work at pace.
- Highly analytical and strong on Excel.
If this opportunity sounds like it’s the right one for you, then apply today!
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