Senior Editor, Fashion Buying (Fixed-Term)

均华; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in trend forecasting seeks a Senior Trend Strategist to join their London team. This role involves delivering AI-driven fashion insights, collaborating with data scientists, and engaging with clients to drive growth. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in the fashion sector and strong analytical skills. The position offers a fixed-term contract until March 2026, with numerous benefits including flexible holiday options and a comprehensive wellbeing package.

Benefits

25 days of holiday per year

Pension

Private Medical Insurance

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• In-depth experience in retail, apparel, and fashion markets.
• Experience working with clients in the fashion and retail sector.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive seasonal category and key item fashion trend reports.
• Contextualize AI-powered trend forecasts through analysis and research.
• Present insights to clients engagingly.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data Literacy

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Job description

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The role

We are looking to hire a Senior Trend Strategist to join our established team of data scientists, analysts, and trend experts in London.

This is a fixed-term contract until March 2026 to cover the maternity leave of a current employee.

Working at WGSN

Together, we create tomorrow

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting, and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants, and more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services include consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics, and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.

Role overview

In this role, you will join a team of data scientists, analysts, and trend experts to deliver AI-driven fashion planning and trend forecasting across our content platform and bespoke advisory services.

If you're passionate about fashion and lifestyle, this is a great place to be, offering the opportunity to work with the world's most creative trend experts, designers, analysts, account managers, marketers, product developers, customer service experts, and more in a meritocratic, high-performance company.

TrendCurve AI is our predictive analytics model within WGSN Fashion Buying, combining powerful data science and quantitative forecasting with the world's leading trend expertise.

The foundation of WGSN is our passionate experts. We seek global talent to work within a business that offers a unique blend of problem solvers, data analysts, and innovative thinkers who combine trends and data to create tomorrow.

The individual will be highly analytical, skilled at interrogating multiple data sets, interpreting trends, and translating data analysis into actionable insights for strategic partners.

With a focus on content creation, you will work with our global team to extract key insights and recommendations for clients as part of our TrendCurve AI offering.

The Senior Strategist will have an expert understanding of the role data and analytics play in business success and will be seen as a trusted industry expert with significant experience in the fashion sector, preferably within buying, merchandising, or insights functions.

This role is client-facing and involves regular meetings with enterprise-level clients.

Key accountabilities

1. Deliver comprehensive seasonal category and key item fashion trend reports that meet business objectives and client needs.
2. Contextualize AI-powered trend forecasts and complex data sets through in-depth analysis, collaboration, and secondary research to provide clear, actionable recommendations that drive growth.
3. Write concise, relevant, action-oriented commentary with a clear understanding of target personas and practical client applications.
4. Apply global fashion market expertise to interpret macro and micro trends across various markets.
5. Build cross-functional partnerships with data science, analytics, product, and fashion content teams.
6. Manage workflow to meet seasonal content calendar deadlines.
7. Source, curate, and credit relevant imagery to complement data analysis.
8. Present insights to clients engagingly and inspiringly as required.

This list is not exhaustive, and other activities may be required.

Skills, experience & qualifications required

1. In-depth experience in retail, apparel, and fashion markets, enabling critical retail decisions.
2. Experience with other consumer lifestyle products and markets is a plus.
3. Experience working with or presenting to clients in the fashion and retail sector, including global brands/retailers.
4. Proven experience in a fashion retail buying, merchandising, or insights/analytics role.
5. Strong leadership and influencing skills; experience with C-suite stakeholders and team development; personable, curious, flexible, strategic.
6. Strategic, customer-centric mindset with excellent research and analytical skills; able to collaborate with Data Analysts to interrogate data and extract insights.
7. Ability to manage multiple projects successfully, exceeding client expectations and pushing industry standards.
8. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including presentation and writing; high numeracy.
9. Data literacy, with experience in data analytics and visualization software (SQL, Tableau) being an advantage.

What we offer

Our benefits and wellbeing package includes flexible options such as:

• 25 days of holiday per year, with buy/sell options for up to 5 days.
• Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, and other benefits like Private Medical, Dental, and Critical Illness insurance.
• Employee assistance, season ticket loans, cycle to work schemes.
• Volunteering and charitable giving options.
• Learning and development opportunities.

More about WGSN

WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting, helping brands create the right products at the right time for tomorrow's consumers.

Our values

We Are Everywhere: We track and analyze consumer behaviors, product innovation, and design worldwide.

We Are Future Focused: We use global resources to produce accurate forecasts focused on creating a successful tomorrow.

We Are Rigorous: We source, review, and assess data to produce credible, actionable forecasts.

Our culture

We prioritize an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and thrive, reflecting our diverse global audience.

We are committed to sustainability and support a flexible, hybrid working environment, with accommodations for reasonable adjustments during the interview process.

A Note for Recruiters

Our Talent Acquisition team manages recruitment. We partner with select agencies and do not respond to unsolicited contacts outside our PSL. We will reach out if we explore new partnerships.