Buying Manager Toddler Boys Hertfordshire

We are currently presenting the opportunity for a Buying Manager to join our UK Clothing team.
As a Buying Manager, your role will be to create profitable customer driven ranges and promotions to deliver sales and margin targets. You will ensure the buying plan supports a group of products to support the delivery of the customer plan and promises of ‘I can get what I want’ and ‘the prices are good’.
Your role and responsibilities are to:
Ensure the buying plan supports delivery of the customer plan
Set sales and margin targets and then beat them
Develop the supplier base to achieve competitive advantage based on a direct sourcing model
Develop with IS, a reactive sustainable supply chain to continually drive new products for customers
Develop fashionable ranges for our online customer
Understand the online competitor set to drive a strategy to capture market share
Negotiate product cost to continually drive down costs for our customers
Plan and negotiate market leading promotions to drive sales and margin
Use the exit process to optimise sell through and minimise exit costs aligned to stores
Always try to make things simpler for stores and our online teams
Deliver against the critical path
Increase market share year on year
The successful individual will have extensive buying experience within a multi site retail consumer business, along with a successful track record of buying clothing from direct sources.
You will have an understanding of country and global supply chain processes, fabric and garment construction and global sourcing.
Experience in multi garment areas is preferable.

Job Title          Buying Manager – Toddler Boys
Location          Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Job Number    128167854
Posted            09/08/2010
Job Type          Permanent
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