Buying Manager

As a Buyer/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

Job Title              UK Clothing Direct – Buying Manager – Brands
Location            Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Posted              08/09/2010
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