Buyer - Womenswear & Jewellery

Liberty.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a highly experienced Buyer to lead the Luxury Women’s Ready-to-Wear and Jewellery categories. This pivotal role involves shaping product strategy, driving sales, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver a compelling product offering. The ideal candidate will have a strong commercial background and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced multi-channel department store.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to negotiate with suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Create product strategy and manage day-to-day performance.
• Negotiate delivery and payment terms with suppliers.
• Lead and develop the buying team.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Analytical skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

5 years of buying experience

Job description

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We are seeking a highly experienced and commercially minded Buyer to lead the Luxury Women’s Ready-to-Wear and Jewellery categories at Liberty. This role will be instrumental in shaping the product strategy, driving sales, enhancing profitability, and ensuring Liberty maintains a distinctive and trend-leading edit. You will work cross-functionally with key internal stakeholders and external partners to source, develop and deliver a compelling, commercial and press-worthy product offering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create product strategy working closely with buying manager, merchandising, retail, customer insight, ecommerce and marketing to ensure each department has the most unique, commercial and press worthy brands and products which deliver sales and margin, profit targets.
• Deliver new concession launches and manage day-to-day performance, working with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and drive sales targets.
• Deliver the brand and product strategy within the agreed OTB.
• Effectively plan floor layouts to drive maximum sales, densities and margin growth. Considering both appropriate brand adjacencies complimentary to the product strategy and the best commercial placements.
• Negotiate optimum delivery, discount and payment terms with suppliers.
• Negotiate additional marketing support where relevant and work with marketing to plan and implement activity each season.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to align on strategy and ensure delivery of departmental KPIs.
• Work closely with the merchandiser each season to maximise re-order opportunities and minimise end of season markdowns.
• Attend floor walks with retail, merchandising and VM to review sales and sell through and drive appropriate actions to improve underperforming areas.
• Brief key internal stakeholders each season on the buy strategy, brand selection, and concession plans, ensuring alignment across merchandising, marketing, ecommerce, retail, and VM to support cohesive execution and storytelling. Constantly research and review the market to source new brands and products that provide Liberty with a point of difference and keep our offer relevant with current trends.
• Lead, manage and develop buying team ensuring there is a plan for progression.
• Attend key market events i.e. trade fairs and fashion weeks in the UK and abroad as appropriate.
• Develop key relationships with new and existing suppliers in order to leverage the Liberty point of difference and position in the market.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Thorough understanding of global and local market, category and product with a keen eye for trend.
• Keen ability to identify declining trends early, making strategic decisions to pivot or step away from underperforming categories to protect profitability and maintain a fresh, relevant product offering.
• Demonstrate strong commercial and analytical acumen with a keen eye for detail.
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• A strong leader who effectively coaches, develops and manages direct reports and wider team.
• Clear, confident communicator, able to communicate collaboratively and effectively across all functions.
• Highly organised and able to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, efficiently managing multiple tasks and priorities while maintaining focus and delivering on a complex workload.
• Solid understanding of all buying processes and best practice.
• Ability to extract meaning from reporting, product feedback and market information.
• Department Store and concession management experience preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

• From a buying background with 5 years’ experience, ideally with some experience within a fast paced multi-channel department store

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Strategy/Planning and Other

• Industries

  Retail, Retail Apparel and Fashion, and Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry

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