Buyer - Footwear

The BrandAlley Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading luxury e-tailor as a Buyer in the footwear department, where you will manage the category effectively. You will be responsible for negotiating best prices and ensuring product offers are competitive. The position provides opportunities for personal development and competitive benefits within a dynamic team environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday with additional days for each year completed

8% employer pension contribution

Life Assurance – 3 x your annual salary

Cycle to Work scheme

Discounted Gym Memberships

Early Finish Fridays

Qualifications

• Experienced Buyer with footwear background.
• Exceptional negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical skills and good knowledge of Excel.

Responsibilities

• Deliver individual financials: sales, margin, and profit.
• Negotiate best prices and manage brand relationships.
• Develop junior team members through coaching and training.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Market knowledge

Commercial acumen

Product passion

Job description

Could this be the job for you?

We are looking for a Buyer to join BrandAlley’s successful footwear buying team to manage the footwear category.

Could this be the job for you?

We are looking for a Buyer to join BrandAlley’s successful footwear buying team to manage the footwear category.

This is a hybrid position, based at our Shoreditch office 3 days per week (Monday, Tue & Thur).

This could be the job for you if…

• You have a passion for product, branded buying and the customer
• You’re a pro at Negotiating Best Prices ensuring the offer is the most competitive in the market for the duration of the campaign
• You’re an experienced Buyer with Footwear experience, ready to hit the ground running and manage your category competently
  
  

What will I be doing?

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Delivering individual financials: sales, margin and profit through trading their own category
• Negotiating Best Prices ensuring the offer is the most competitive in the market for the duration of the campaign
• Continual sourcing of brands, ensuring we have the best product and offers whilst making speedy and commercial decisions
• Executing Daily Sales in line with monthly targets offering a balanced range with sales targeted at the customer
• Delivering a strategy that is reviewed and flexed on a monthly basis to ensure delivery of business targets
• Reacting in season to department performance ensuring targets maintained
• Conveying a sense of urgency to make things happen
• Ensuring critical path deadlines are met and the wider teams are not jeopardised
• Understanding of competition, brands and keeping up to date information on competitive sales to assure we are offering the best sale within the time the sales are live. Constantly reviewing online competition and share new ideas
  
  

Performance

• Demonstrating market knowledge to negotiate and deliver the best value to the BA customer while delivering a high sell through for the brand
• Attending weekly trade meetings to analyse and establish current performance in order to deliver an action plan to ensure sales targets are met
• Communicating with marketing and production to ensure all sales are traded and have the marketing support to overachieve
• Arranging and attending brand meetings to create understanding of high value negotiations and sale planning
• Dealing with obstacles demonstrating a “can do” attitude whilst delivering accurate results
• Maintaining a flexible and proactive approach
• Commercial acumen
  
  

People development

• Responsible for developing junior team members on the Department – through coaching, training and developing with regular reviews and constructive feedback. You would have 2 direct reports in this role.
• Ensuring performance reviews are executed twice a year and objectives and goals are agreed and monitored, in order for them to be more effective in their roles
• Understanding the roles and responsibilities of other departments and ensure they are supported with information required for them to perform their roles in an effective manner
• At all times be an ambassador for BrandAlley developing and maintaining positive supplier relationships
  
  

The good stuff…

• An experienced Buyer with previous experience and passion for footwear is essential.
• Ability to manage the departments brand relationships, buys and new brand pursue list
• Exceptional negotiation skills and a demonstrated ability to secure advantageous terms with suppliers
• You’re highly organised, self-motivated and have a flexible approach to managing high workload along with ad hoc tasks
• You have strong analytical skills and a good knowledge of Excel to manipulate data, with the ability to drill into the detail to make commercial decisions
• You’re a motivated individual, able to work independently and as part of a team
• You have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You’re proactive in problem identification and resolution
  
  

The great stuff…

• Experience ideally specific to Footwear and with existing brand contacts in the industry
• Prior experience with marketplace systems, specifically Mirakl, would be advantageous
  
  

What other benefits can I enjoy?

• A modern, energetic, dynamic, and sociable office based in London's Shoreditch.
• The opportunity to work on some exciting brands supported by an inspiring and friendly team of people
• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday – Additional 1 day for each completed calendar year capped at 30 days!
• 8% employer pension contribution
• Life Assurance – 3 x your annual salary
• Early Finish Fridays every week
• Everyday Benefits – including Cycle to Work scheme, discounted Gym Memberships
  
  

Who is BrandAlley?

We’re the UK’s leading luxury off-price lifestyle e-tailor. A members-only site home to hundreds of some of the best high-profile labels in fashion, beauty and home, from Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen to Molton Brown and Philip Kingsley.

We understand that privacy and the security of your personal information is extremely important. BrandAlley UK Ltd collects, processes, and ensures the security of all personal data that we gather in accordance with data protection laws.

BrandAlley UK Ltd are proud to be an equal opportunities employer who provide equal employment opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

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