Footwear & Accessories Buyer

BUYER | FOOTWEAR & ACCESSORIES | ONLINE & E-COMMERCE | HYRBID WORKING | £55,000 - £65,000

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary DOE £
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working
• Accessible Location

We're on the look for a Buyer who loves all things footwear & accessories!
You will need to be an experienced Buyer already, or a Senior with a proven track record when delivering creative, well balanced and profitable ranges.

The opportunities here are endless, with the Head of Buying & Director being keen to meet visionaries and those who want to push boundaries with new categories or trialling product to excite their customer.

A well established, long stranding, British High Street Retailer - who are offering a fantastic opportunity for autonomy, within a supportive & motivating culture.

AS THE BUYER:

• You will have developed junior colleagues
• Strive to improve ways of working
• Drive newness at all times
• Creative and innovative thinker
• On boarding new suppliers
• Supplier visits, including Far East Travel
• Footwear & Accessories background is essential!

BUYER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deep dive all categories within your areas to build on lessons learnt
• Build on best sellers seasonally and through trading with newness options
• Trade into best selling lines weekly via repeats or newness via OTB
• Ability to highlight slow lines, how to improve them or when it's time to walk away
• Review and build clear pricing architectures
• Plan with Merchandiser buys and build well-balanced ranges
• Ability to identify gaps within ranges and capitalise on new opportunities
• Encourage junior members of the team to react to sales, always looking to make money for the business with new product
• Review colour, prints, shapes whilst protecting best sellers but at all times introducing newness to keep ranges moving forward
• Experience with trading from the Far East and closer to home (short & long lead) is essential
• Maintain supplier relationships whilst onboarding new suppliers to the business
• Ability to source new fabrics and trims as well as having experience sourcing more sustainable fabrications
• Experience of test and trial methods to drive newness and profit for your department
• Reputable trading performance at margin level and cash sales
• Ability to dive into historical and new data for your department so that commercial decisions can be made from a trading point of view
• Manage Monday Trade reports and key actions for your department to take
• Manage and prepare for product launches, with setting the departments critical path at the start of each season - ensuring all selling windows are bought and planned to
• Work closely with Merchandiser to plan and prepare forecasting and projections for large volume buys
• Conduct cross costing projects to protect and increase BIM with the supply base

AS A MANAGER:

• Conduct team meetings, setting clear processes each week for your team to work with, such as; Critical path updates, supplier meetings, fit sessions, general sample management, trade meetings & actions
• Challenging and holding your direct reports, keeping them accountable for their set responsibilities
• Ensuring daily that your team feel motivated and supported with all tasks
• Ability to oversee the wider team for critical path and delivery schedule as this will include the merchandising and garment tech functions
• Manage and communicate all stock issues, delays, phasing & cancellations with total team

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