Position Overview & Specifications
Description
Footasylum are hiring a Buyer to work within the Men's Apparel Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ranges directly impacting sales across our stores and websites, ultimately contributing to the growth of the business.
Responsibilities:
- Coach, Support and develop junior team members in order to train and aid development in their roles.
- Take ownership and accountability for all aspects of your product file, using your judgement to manage stock levels, profitability and seasonal product flow.
- Manage existing brand relationships and seek new brand partnership opportunities.
- Attending key product meetings, contributing and feeding back relevant business and marketplace insights.
- Be instrumental in the development of the category buying strategy through consumer-led buying focus.
- Participating in and contributing to trade reviews and strategy meetings, demonstrating a clear understanding of your category and current trends.
- Maintaining effective internal relationships with other departments, most notably with the Merchandising and Design Centre teams.
- Forecasting and planning by brand and product group.
- Initiating and researching new business opportunities.
- Sharing insights with other team members and departments.
- Work diligently in product development with the Design Team to further grow own label business.
- Complete regional trend research through marketplace travel and attending consumer-relevant events.
About you
We love people with passion for product and we want to utilise that passion to develop your career. We encourage people to “Defy Ordinary”.
You will be driven, ambitious and motivated. Your focus will be on servicing stakeholders, our customers and striving to deliver the best that Footasylum and our brand partners have to offer. Ideally applicants should have experience buying for a multi-branded and own label retail environment. Own label brands and brand exclusive (SMU) ranges make up an important part of our business, so candidates should be versed in briefing seasonal collections and working in tandem with both internal and external brand design teams.
Why Footasylum?
We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We pride ourselves on giving our team members the opportunity and the training to enable them to develop their personal and professional skills.
Our aim is to create a fun and creative environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.
Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity in helping us to ensure that we have a variety of different perspectives when we are providing service to our colleagues and customers. We know that this will help us to deliver a great service, which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Importantly, for us diversity is also about building happy teams, filled with colleagues who want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.
Recruitment Process
We review applications on an individual basis. If we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you to join us on a call or Teams chat for an informal discussion about the role, and to see if we are a good fit for you.
We value open and honest conversations, giving you the chance to learn more about the role in a friendly and informal environment. We want to learn more about you and why you feel that this next step is the right opportunity for your career development.
Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.