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
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