Junior Buyer PLT

PrettyLittleThing; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Junior Buyer at a leading fashion retailer, you will build collections and work closely with senior teams to deliver innovative products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a keen sense for trends, this opportunity to join the buying team could be for you!

Benefits

Up to 40% discount off all brands

Learning and Development training

Flexible core hours

Share schemes

Health and wellbeing benefits

Social calendar events

Internal career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working at Senior Assistant Buyer or existing Junior Buyer level within a fashion retail business.
• Excellent industry knowledge with the ability to identify trends.
• Positive attitude and ability to meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for range building and trading own department.
• Present ranges to Senior Leadership team for sign offs.
• Support Buyers with development of junior team members.

Skills

Trend spotting

Collaboration

Time management

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As a Junior Buyer at PrettyLittleThing you will be working closely with the Buyers and Buying Manager to build a successful collection. You will join a growing Buying team who are redefining product with a 'Fashion First' approach and a renewed focus on customers. If you're innovative, fast-paced, and ready to make a difference, join us in our mission to empower customers worldwide and shape the future of the boohoo brand.

Your team

Since our humble beginnings, we’ve grown year on year to become an authority in fashion, beauty and lifestyle in our own right. You’ll find our showrooms in London, Los Angeles, Miami and Paris, along with our presence in Dubai, Australia, Ireland and New York. We’ve got it all, and we want more. We want you!

As a Buying team, we want to give our incredible customers what they want, when they want it. We elevate our products, travel the world seeking inspiration and build relationships with suppliers from all over the globe. We elevate boohoo, and our unique test and repeat model is the secret to our success. We’re the team to turn to for collaboration and bringing a product to life.

What you'll be doing

• As a Junior Buyer you will be responsible for range building, planning and trading your own department. You will have ownership from first initial concept all the way to final seal of the product.
• You will present your ranges to the Senior Leadership team in sign offs as well as your longer-term plans for your product area.
• Reports and effectively communicates all key information in trading meetings to buyer and director level.
• Generates ideas and suggestion to impact the business with reference to promotions and mark downs.
• Monitors stock covers on single lines.
• Develops basic understanding of WSSI by close cooperation with buyer and merchandising team.
• Builds strong relationships with peers across Design and Merchandising.
• Supports Buyers with the development of more junior team members.
• Supports Senior Buyers to develop new strategies for the business and department.
• Completes buying trips as needed- both in the UK and internationally.

Working with us

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.

More about you

As a Junior Buyer you will have a positive, can-do attitude with the ability to work to tight deadlines. You will have excellent industry knowledge, be current and ahead at identifying trends and commercial wins for the brand. You’ll also have:

• Experience working at Senior Assistant Buyer or existing Junior Buyer level within a fashion retail business.
• Always looks to improve the department’s operation and increase knowledge of own and related job functions.
• Ability to look into the detail as well as the bigger picture, especially by working collaboratively as a team and being a team player at all costs.
• You juggle all your priorities effortlessly and never let the ball drop.
• You are always coming up with new ideas and initiatives to make the department better.
• You’re always ahead at spotting trends and commercial wins for the business.

WHY JOIN US

Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception. Beyond this we offer each and every employee the below benefits:

• There’s up to 40% discount off all our brands
• Opportunity to take part in Learning and Development training- expanding your knowledge on areas outside of your day to day.
• Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
• You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes- where your impact on the business will also impact you!
• Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
• Our social calendar? Next level!
• Opportunity to progress both within your brand and also internally across our 12 other fashion brands!
• With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe, we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work