Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer £48,000 - £60,000 Merseyside Hybrid

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join a dynamic, creative, and high-performing team within one of the UK's longest standing fashion and lifestyle brands.You'll bring strong product intuition, commercial acumen, and proven leadership, driving strategy, delivering results, and inspiring your team & those around you to achieve their best.

In this role, you'll play a key role in developing the department's vision each season, managing supplier relationships, and executing ambitious buying strategies that balance creativity, profitability, and innovation.

As the Experienced Buyer, You Will:

• Lead, develop, and inspire your team

• Review and improve ways of working, driving greater efficiency and clarity across the team.

• Take ownership of strategic range building, ensuring well-balanced collections that reflect brand DNA, customer needs, and commercial targets.

• Plan all buys in collaboration with your Merchandiser, aligning to budgets, forecasts, and business objectives.

• Identify gaps and opportunities across ranges, capitalising on emerging trends and sales data.

• Build and deliver "lessons learned" presentations for leadership - providing clear insights and forward strategies from trading performance.

• Communicate best and worst sellers, driving clear actions and learnings across the wider team.

• Own supplier strategy with onboarding new partners, maintaining strong relationships, and conducting regular supplier visits.

• Manage sourcing across multi-product categories, balancing short- and long-lead production both in the Far East and closer to home.

• Demonstrate strong trading performance, achieving margin, sales, and cash targets.

• Partner with Merchandising on OTB management, seasonal budgeting, and forecasting.

• Analyse historical and in-season data to inform commercial decisions and shape future strategies.

• Oversee Monday trade reporting, ensuring key actions are understood and implemented across the team.

• Manage critical paths and delivery schedules, ensuring smooth launches and timely product drops.

• Communicate any stock issues, delays, or cancellations clearly and promptly across departments.

• Oversee campaign and trigger dates, ensuring key styles land on time to support all marketing platforms and trading plans.

• A proven established - senior Buyer with a strong multi-product background.

• Commercially sharp, data-driven, and confident in trading a fast-paced department.

• An inspiring people leader, able to motivate and develop those around you

• Skilled in building balanced, profitable, and innovative ranges.

• Collaborative and communicative

• Experienced in supplier management, sourcing, and sustainability initiatives.

• Highly organised, proactive, and adaptable, thriving in a dynamic environment.

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