Junior Buyer

Joma Jewellery Ltd; Banbury; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run jewellery and lifestyle company in Banbury is seeking a passionate Junior Buyer to shape seasonal product ranges for their brand. This role involves collaborating with design teams, managing suppliers, and producing market insights. The ideal candidate has experience in buying within retail or fashion, strong negotiation skills, and attention to detail. Offering a competitive salary and generous benefits, this position supports a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Salary between £33,000 - £38,000 DOE

33 days holiday rising to 35

Generous staff discount

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• Experience as a junior buyer or assistant buyer in retail or fashion.
• Strong commercial awareness and trend insight within fashion/lifestyle markets.
• High attention to detail with excellent organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive category and product strategies aligned with business goals.
• Shape seasonal ranges and propose creative ideas based on market opportunities.
• Negotiate costs and manage suppliers to achieve margin targets.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Trend insight

Negotiation skills

Organisational skills

Problem-solving skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Communication skills

Team player

Tools

Excel

Outlook

Word

Job description

THE OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Junior Buyer to help shape our beautiful seasonal product ranges for our Katie Loxton brand. This role blends creativity with commercial thinking, supporting our mission to bring thoughtfully designed, trend-led gifting, accessories and lifestyle products to our global customers.

Our Buying team works hard behind the brands to create inspiring collections that delight our customers and reflect our’s signature style. We partner closely with our internal talented Product Design and Merchandising teams as well as our trusted external suppliers to bring new products to life always with quality, innovation, and personalisation at the heart of everything we do.

As a Junior Buyer, you’ll play a key role in shaping our seasonal product ranges across multiple product categories. You’ll make an impact by sharing valuable market insights, support pricing architecture and sourcing decisions, as well as ensuring smooth communication across teams to help drive our product strategy whilst adhering to the critical path. You will also have the opportunity in this role to coach and mentor junior members of the team to drive team success.

If you’re confident working with suppliers, experienced partnering with Merchandising and Design, naturally tuned in to trends and the market, and have exceptional attention to detail, this could be the perfect position for you!

The role is Monday - Friday 9am-5pm. You'll enjoy the exciting buzz of our friendly office in Banbury, Oxfordshire three times a week on average with the flexibility to work from home for the remaining two days. This may increase to 5 days a week during peak periods such as sign off weeks.

BEHIND THE BRANDS

We’re a family-run, entrepreneurial company with an exciting pace of life and a bright and friendly team. We are passionate about creating stunning products with a personal touch and innovating our business behind the scenes. We value creativity, collaboration and integrity.

HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE

• Driving category and product strategies, ensuring processes are accurate, timely, and aligned with business goals.
• Shaping seasonal ranges by spotting market opportunities, proposing creative ideas, and collaborating with Design to develop product briefs.
• Negotiating costs and managing suppliers to achieve margin targets, quality standards, and timely delivery.
• Overseeing product sampling, approvals, and quality compliance to meet critical path and regulatory requirements.
• Managing accurate buying documentation, data sharing, and process improvements to support informed, efficient decisions.
• Collaborating across PR, Marketing, Creative, Web, VM, and Retail Ops to communicate product information clearly and consistently.
• Monitoring trends, competitor activity, and sales insights to inform pricing, sourcing, and product strategy.
• Coaching and supporting junior team members, promoting a positive, safe, and high‑performing working environment.

THE TALENT YOU'LL BRING

• Currently working at experienced/senior assistant buyer or junior buyer level within similar role within a retail or fashion environment.
• Strong commercial awareness and trend insight within fashion/lifestyle markets.
• Excellent organisational and problem‑solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Confident negotiator and communicator.
• Agile, self‑motivated, and comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Confident presenting ideas to stakeholders across departments.
• Proactive team player with a desire to take ownership and drive results.
• Solid knowledge of buying cycles and critical path management.
• Excellent experience with supplier base management and cost negotiations is desirable.

PERFECTLY PACKAGED

• A £33,000 - £38,000 DOE.
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 with length of service.
• Abroad benefit package including our staff favourite – a very generous staff discount across both our brands. See all of our benefits on our careers portal.
• Opportunities to make an impact as well as learn and develop further.
• An innovative and friendly workplace with a team we’re proud to be part of. Find out more about us and our culture on our careers portal.

Joma Jewellery was founded in 2008 by Katie and Geoff Loxton, since then we have gone from strength to strength, launching Katie Loxton in 2015 and growing our business beyond the UK. We know that part of that growth comes from the fact that we take diversity and inclusion very seriously. We strive to be the best in our field, and we know that happens by hiring a diverse team and encouraging everyone to be their authentic selves when working with us. We don’t hire based on cultures, preferences, or personalities – it’s what you bring to the team that counts.

We are always striving to improve our way of working to be more inclusive, diverse and equal, including encouraging all team members to bring their ideas to the table as we know this is key to our continued success.