As the Beauty Brands Junior Buyer, you will focus on internal-facing work within the beauty brand team, with emphasis on managing stock challenges and brand relationships. A key part of this role is problem-solving and transformation activities, requiring strong internal stakeholder management and process improvement capabilities.

Join the buying team to drive internal transformation and stock management for branded products, working on high-impact projects that shape M&S's buying strategy while building relationships with key internal stakeholders and brand partners.

Requirements

• Experience working to at least Senior Assistant Buyer with a passion for beauty.
• Strong relationship building and communication skills to foster collaborative and effective engagement with brand partners and internal stakeholders.
• Open to change and playing an important role in establishing the adoption of 3rd Party Brands within the complex and evolving M&S world.
• Appreciation of internal cross functional departments and key interactions required to establish integrated processes and ease of working - ability to make things happen across the business is critical in this role so being organised and tenacious will be key.
• Strong commercial acumen – understanding how price, margin and costs impact the Brand and M&S profitability.
• Knowledge of internal process best practice.

Responsibilities

• Achieves high level of department efficiency through leading the day-to-day buying office operations with buying team alongside internal and external stakeholders.
• Create positive partnerships with our brands, establishing strong direct relationships quickly and leveraging these to develop a long-term benefit to M&S. Build strong relationships internally and externally to train, engage and equip all relevant parties with the information and guidance to effect successful and commercial trading partnerships.
• Act as the key interface with all brands to deliver the best product choice, customer experience and ensure ease of working across all key retail levers: - selection, availability, supply chain, operational efficiency, and marketing.
• Ensure product selection and size of offer adheres to key principles of price stretch, range scale and choice that compliments M&S Brands and customer aspirations.
• Be the ambassador of the brand internally by liaising with cross functional departments including retail, supply chain, e-com and marketing to ensure all operations runs smoothly.
• Constantly monitor sales and range offering to ensure commercial and customer aspirations are potentialised, liaising with brands to curate and amend accordingly. Ensure business units are regularly and succinctly updated with progress, status, and learnings, allowing for feedback and input to be incorporated.

Benefits

• 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third party branded products for you and one member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
• Discretionary bonus schemes depending on your role and our business performance.
• Get cover for twice your salary up to age 70 (double with our Pension Plan).
• Pension Savings Plan, Share Buy and Sharesave schemes.
• Discounts and offers on everyday costs and access to great health benefits.
• Bike/accessory hire with Cycle to Work and save on tax and national insurance.
• Interest-free financing for the latest technology directly from your salary.
• Free virtual GP service and other resources to support your wellbeing.
• Donate to your favourite charities through your pay or by volunteering for them.
• Industry-leading maternity, paternity, adoption and neo-natal policies, providing support and flexibility for you and your family.

About Marks & Spencer

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.