Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer | £48,000 - £60,000 | Merseyside | Hybrid

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join a dynamic, creative, and high-performing team within one of the UK's longest standing fashion and lifestyle brands.

You'll bring strong product intuition, commercial acumen, and proven leadership, driving strategy, delivering results, and inspiring your team & those around you to achieve their best.

In this role, you'll play a key role in developing the department's vision each season, managing supplier relationships, and executing ambitious buying strategies that balance creativity, profitability, and innovation.

As the Experienced Buyer, You Will:

• Lead, develop, and inspire your team

• Review and improve ways of working, driving greater efficiency and clarity across the team.

• Take ownership of strategic range building, ensuring well-balanced collections that reflect brand DNA, customer needs, and commercial targets.

• Plan all buys in collaboration with your Merchandiser, aligning to budgets, forecasts, and business objectives.

• Identify gaps and opportunities across ranges, capitalising on emerging trends and sales data.

• Build and deliver "lessons learned" presentations for leadership - providing clear insights and forward strategies from trading performance.

• Communicate best and worst sellers, driving clear actions and learnings across the wider team.

• Own supplier strategy with onboarding new partners, maintaining strong relationships, and conducting regular supplier visits.

• Manage sourcing across multi-product categories, balancing short- and long-lead production both in the Far East and closer to home.

• Demonstrate strong trading performance, achieving margin, sales, and cash targets.

• Partner with Merchandising on OTB management, seasonal budgeting, and forecasting.

• Analyse historical and in-season data to inform commercial decisions and shape future strategies.

• Oversee Monday trade reporting, ensuring key actions are understood and implemented across the team.

• Manage critical paths and delivery schedules, ensuring smooth launches and timely product drops.

• Communicate any stock issues, delays, or cancellations clearly and promptly across departments.

• Oversee campaign and trigger dates, ensuring key styles land on time to support all marketing platforms and trading plans.

Who You Are:

• A proven established - senior Buyer with a strong multi-product background.

• Commercially sharp, data-driven, and confident in trading a fast-paced department.

• An inspiring people leader, able to motivate and develop those around you

• Skilled in building balanced, profitable, and innovative ranges.

• Collaborative and communicative

• Experienced in supplier management, sourcing, and sustainability initiatives.

• Highly organised, proactive, and adaptable, thriving in a dynamic environment.

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