Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer | Fashion & Lifestyle brand | North of England HQ | Global Recognised

This is more than a buying role - this is your chance to lead within a globally recognised brand with a fiercely loyal customer and a product DNA that never stands still. With heritage at its core and innovation in its stride, this is a brand that knows exactly who it is.

We're looking for a strategic, commercially driven Senior Buyer to take ownership of key departments - serving the existing customer with precision, while identifying new opportunities to grow market share, excite new consumers, and build relevant, forward-thinking product assortments that live up to the brand's standards.

Your Impact As The Senior Buyer:

• Lead from the front: Build and present impactful lessons-learned decks for Heads of Department and Directors, turning insight into strategy.

• Coach and challenge: Guide, motivate, and hold your team accountable as they manage and trade their own subcategories.

• Be the standard bearer: Set the tone for excellence - supporting day-to-day, celebrating wins, and addressing challenges with clarity and pace.

• Shape the offer: Collaborate with your Merchandiser to build commercially strong, brand-aligned ranges that protect bestsellers and introduce constant newness.

• Spot the gaps: Identify white space across categories and act quickly to seize commercial opportunities.

• Drive sales through action: Encourage junior team members to respond to trade with urgency - chasing opportunities and capitalising on emerging trends.

• Range evolution: Review colour, print, shape and silhouette, ensuring all collections remain true to brand while pushing things forward.

• Global sourcing knowledge: Confidently trade with Far East and near-shore suppliers; comfortable working with both long- and short-lead production calendars.

• Supplier strategy: Maintain strong supplier relationships while onboarding new, agile partners. Proven ability to source new, sustainable fabrics and trims.

• Test & trial mindset: Experience with launching trial products or edits to inject newness, react to customer insights, and drive margin performance.

• Commercial thinker: A track record of delivering margin and cash sales results, with experience working closely on OTB and seasonal budgets.

• Data-led decisions: Regularly review historical data and in-season trading to make clear, confident product and pricing decisions.

• Trading champion: Own Monday trade for your department - setting actions and direction.

• Critical path & delivery oversight: Oversee the end-to-end delivery calendar, ensuring all launches, key styles, and campaigns land on time.

• Own the launch moment: Manage campaign and trigger dates, working with cross-functional teams to make product launches successful and timely.

• Volume readiness: Partner with Merchandisers to forecast and prepare for high-volume lines and commercial programmes.

• Protect margin: Lead cross-costing projects and partner negotiations to secure value and profitability.

• Collaborate with purpose: Be present and active in trend, design, and development meetings with both internal creatives and external suppliers.

You'll Thrive Here If You:

• Have a strong background in buying, ideally within a high-growth fashion or lifestyle business

• Are deeply commercial but instinctively creative - you see the numbers and the nuance

• Love product, and obsess over getting the right range to the right customer at the right time

• Are confident leading a team while still being in the detail when needed

BBBH34050