Buyer | Leeds | £50,000 - £55,000 | Lifestyle Retailer | Hybrid
Why Join?
This business genuinely values its people and has created a culture where teams feel empowered, supported, and celebrated. Alongside a highly competitive package, you'll benefit from:
- £6,000 car allowance
- Private healthcare
- Brilliant wellbeing initiatives
- Additional "just because" perks and rewards
- Enhanced holiday entitlement + bank holidays
- Hybrid working; 2-3 days in office
- A collaborative and supportive culture
- Real autonomy and influence
- Strong long-term progression opportunities
The Opportunity:
We're partnering with an exciting, customer-focused retail business looking for a commercially driven and creatively minded Buyer to take ownership of a multi-category offer. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your ideas, expertise, and leadership will directly shape the future of the brand.
This role is perfect for a confident Buyer who thrives on balancing creativity with commerciality, loves product, understands the customer deeply, and enjoys leading from the front. You'll play a key role in building innovative, profitable ranges while mentoring and developing a high-performing team around you.
You'll have the autonomy to influence strategy, build exciting product ranges, strengthen supplier partnerships, and react quickly to customer and market trends in a business that truly values agility and entrepreneurial thinking.
The Role:
As Buyer, you'll lead the strategic development of a commercially successful, innovative, and customer-focused product offer. You'll shape and deliver balanced ranges that reflect the brand identity, excite the customer, and drive both sales and margin performance.
Working closely with Buying, Merchandising, Product Support, and Brand teams, you'll oversee sourcing, planning, and trading across multiple product categories ensuring every range delivers both creative and commercial impact.
This is a hands-on leadership role suited to an experienced Fashion Buyer with a strong background in product development, strategic trading, and people management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead strategic range planning across multi-product categories, ensuring strong balance, innovation, and commercial success.
- Develop and evolve the brand handwriting within your categories to maximise market potential and customer engagement.
- Create compelling ranges that blend wardrobe essentials with trend-led product tailored to specialist customer needs.
- Identify product gaps and new opportunities, driving agile and sales-focused decision making.
- Build and communicate pricing and product strategies using customer insight, performance data, and market trends.
- Analyse daily trading and sales performance, reacting quickly to maximise opportunities and minimise risk.
- Partner closely with Merchandising to manage OTB, seasonal planning, and budget delivery.
- Oversee product launches and trading actions through strong critical path management.
- Present seasonal strategies, trading updates, and lessons learnt to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Continuously review and improve ways of working across the buying function.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships while identifying and onboarding new partners to support future growth.
- Drive supplier strategy, sustainable sourcing initiatives, and effective commercial negotiations.
- Work collaboratively with Product Support teams to maintain exceptional fit, quality, and consistency standards.
- Lead, motivate, and develop direct reports, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
- Mentor junior team members and encourage accountability, growth, and continuous development.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven experience within a buying role, ideally across fashion and accessories
- Strong multi-category buying and strategic range planning experience.
- Excellent commercial awareness with a deep understanding of product, customer behaviour, and trading.
- Experience working within a buyer-led environment.
- Confident people leader with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop teams.
- Strong sourcing expertise and established supplier relationships.
- Analytical, organised, and highly results-driven.
- Excellent negotiation, influencing, and presentation skills.
- Passionate about product, customer experience, and innovation.
- Resilient, adaptable, and thrives in a fast-moving retail environment.
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