Job Description

You the Junior Buyer will plan, manage the design process, source and select a commercial range of products within your product area.

*Price Negotiatiom, Negotiate best cost price to enable company target margin is achieved.
*Product Development, Oversee the sampling process alongside QA from development to delivered product. Work with QA and design on best garment fit / product styling. Final approval of bulk submits - fabrics, trims, branding and packaging
*Product Documentation: Create and update design sheets to be issued to the factory for product development. Complete product specification and branding guidelines for production.
*Critical Path Management: Manage critical path, key dates to ensure on time delivery.
*Analysis: Build seasonal lessons learnt & best & worst sellers for key presentations and planning. Monitoring daily sales & new reactions, trend analysis & sending publishing updates.
*Trend Awareness: Maintain competitor awareness and full understanding of customer needs to maximise profits and provide a commercially viable range.

Close to transport links |Hybrid Working

• Currently a Assistant Buyer, Senior Assistant Buyer, Junior buyer or similer
• Organisational skills - the ability to manage the critical path from product development to delivery / in store sales
• Team player - ability to manage working relationships at all levels
• Numerate - working with margin calculations and budgets
• Negotiation skills - ability to work with suppliers to agree the best price for a product while maintaining quality requirements
• Understanding of the clothing industry & trading environments. Broad knowledge of either retail or wholesale environments

A great opportunity for a Junior Buyer to join a leading retailer in the Leeds. They are an established business that have been trading for a number of years.. They are also known for their internal progression.

Free Parking, Mix of Home & Office Working, Discount on Product

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