Exciting Leadership Role – Buying Director, Europe | Health & Beauty Retail
Job Title: Buying Director, Europe
Reporting To: Director – Western Europe
Location: Slough or Weybridge
Type: Full Time, Permanent (Hybrid: 3 days office / 2 days home)
About the Role
We’re looking for a dynamic, commercially-driven Buying Director to lead our European health & beauty buying strategy. This pivotal role offers the chance to shape product vision, accelerate category growth, and strengthen supplier partnerships across multiple international markets.
As a key member of the leadership team, you will guide a high-performing buying function, developing a trend-led and commercially robust product offering spanning own-label, branded, and exclusive ranges. This is an opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-moving retail landscape.
What You’ll Do
* Define and deliver the long-term European buying strategy for health, beauty, wellness, and personal care categories.
* Lead, inspire, and grow a talented buying team, fostering innovation, accountability, and high performance.
* Use insights, data, and market trends to create differentiated category plans that drive sales and margin growth.
* Build and manage supplier relationships, securing exclusivity, innovation, and scale across Europe.
* Develop promotional and pricing strategies that balance immediate trading success with sustainable growth.
* Collaborate with marketing, supply chain, digital, and finance teams to ensure seamless execution.
* Provide strategic commercial input at board level, influencing transformation and expansion initiatives.
* Champion the customer, ensuring product ranges remain trend-led, relevant, and aligned with evolving consumer needs.
About You
* Senior-level experience in buying or trading within Health, Beauty, FMCG, or Retail.
* Strong strategic thinker with a proven ability to translate vision into results.
* Expert in supplier management and negotiation, with experience driving large-scale joint business plans.
* Demonstrated success in leading, coaching, and inspiring multi-category teams.
* Highly analytical, using data to inform decisions and strategy.
* Deep understanding of customer behaviour, category drivers, and the competitive retail landscape.
* Collaborative, influential, and confident engaging at senior executive level.
Why This Role?
This is a rare chance to shape the future of European health & beauty retail during an exciting period of growth and innovation. If you’re a strategic, commercially-minded leader ready to make a real difference, we want to hear from you.
Apply today or reach out directly: tom.richards@harbourneassociates.com
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