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Senior Buyer
JD Sports Fashion
Bury, UAE
Full Time
Senior
Onsite
4 weeks ago
BuyingVendor NegotiationMarket AnalysisBudget ManagementProduct SelectionTrend Forecasting
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About the Role
JD Sports Fashion is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead buying strategy, product selection, and vendor negotiations for sports fashion. The role involves market analysis, budget management, team mentorship, and collaboration with merchandising to drive sales and margin targets.
Key Skills for This Role
BuyingVendor NegotiationMarket AnalysisBudget ManagementProduct SelectionTrend Forecasting
Responsibilities
- Work with the Department Head and Buying Director to build forward strategy and ensure implementation
- Development and mentorship of junior members of the buying team
- Attending all appointments, with involvement in selection, editing and curation of product
- Attending all product launches throughout the year as specified
- Attending all relevant trade shows
- Market analysis/store visits
- Analysis and review of trade with the merchandising department to propose and drive actions for the week/seasons ahead ensuring KPI’s and Margin targets are met
- Vendor negotiation and New brand onboarding
- Being hyper vigilant on new brands opportunities and trends to diversify and drive department/category sales and ensure market relevancy
- Budget negotiation and planning within internal teams and external brands
- Negotiation with brands re distribution agreements
- Managing budgets and OTB on in seasons and forward budgets
Requirements
- Experienced Buyer or currently in a senior buying role
- Experience of buying branded goods is essential
- Experience of buying Sports Fashion is advantageous
- Strong understanding and knowledge of current and upcoming sports fashion trends at a high street and premium level price point
- Highly numerate and skilled within budget forecasting and planning
- Fully literate in Microsoft Office: PowerPoint, Word, Excel
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Company Overview
- Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
- JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
- We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Work with the Department Head and Buying Director to build forward strategy and ensure implementation.
- Development and mentorship of junior members of the buying team.
- Representing the Buying function on relevant fascia and category (tbc).
- Attending all appointments, with involvement in selection, editing and curation of product.
- Attending all product launches throughout the year as specified.
- Attending all relevant trade shows.
- Market analysis/store visits.
- Analysis and review of trade with the merchandising department to propose and drive actions for the week/seasons ahead ensuring KPI’s and Margin targets are met.
- Vendor negotiation and New brand onboarding.
- Being hyper vigilant on new brands opportunities and trends to diversify and drive department/category sales and ensure market relevancy.
- Budget negotiation and planning within internal teams and external brands.
- Negotiation with brands re distribution agreements.
Core Competencies
- Extensive knowledge of our store base and website.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Confidence within own decisions and product selection. Comfortable in driving decisions on file and being accountable for all actions.
- Ability to act independently.
- Extensive knowledge of product area and market.
- Ability to look forward and predict trends both current and future.
- Highly numerate and skilled within budget forecasting and planning.
- Strong time management skills ensuring all business critical deadlines are met.
Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed
- Experienced Buyer or currently in a senior buying role.
- Experience of buying Sports Fashion is advantageous.
- Experience of buying branded goods is essential.
- People development experience advantageous.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of current and upcoming sports fashion trends at a high street and premium level price point.
- Be able to exercise a high degree of analytical and numerical skills.
- Fully literate in Microsoft Office: PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
- Organisational skills are essential.
- Be able to work under own initiative.
- A creative and trend led individual.
What we will offer you
- Development linked to your role with the business.
- An opportunity to work across multi brands both UK and Internationally.
- Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation.
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
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