Job Description
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Senior Buyer – Homeware
Location: Camden, London
We are recruiting for a Senior Buyer - Homeware within our Homeware and General Merchandise team based in Camden, London.
Working type: Hybrid Working – 3 Days in the Office
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent – 37.5 hours a week (Monday to Friday)
About the Company
MILES is a globally acting end-to-end supply chain management company which creates holistic product concepts from development, sourcing, production to final delivery and marketing. MILES is part of the Li & Fung Group with a fantastic portfolio of customers.
About the Role
The successful candidate will work on a range of accounts and general merchandise product ranges. The successful candidate will work closely with the wider global team, driving new product ranges and categories and managing margins carefully.
Qualifications & Key Responsibilities
- Experienced and has previously worked with all homeware categories
- Liaise with Buyers and Category Managers and own these specific accounts and have sales targets
- Able to create commercial ranges that are right for our customers. Ensure that all categories at profitable and achieving good margins
- Experience overseeing and signing off the sample process – lab dips/strike offs, red and gold seals
- Strong understanding of our customer requirements, competitors, and marketplace trends
- Experience working to deadlines and launch dates with multiple customers
- Experience carrying out in-store and online competitor analysis and SWOT reports to assist new product development
- Able to follow the Product Development process from initial ideas to launch. Spend a great amount of time analysing the marketplace and trends to offer out customers the trending products
- Familiar working with margins and cost of goods. The key is to identify the margin the customer wants to make and work on calculations based on this
- Experienced working with overseas suppliers and factories. Attend trade fairs for design inspiration and source new suppliers.
- Flexible and comfortable working in a very fast-paced environment
- A great communicator and able to work with various stakeholders at all levels
- Confident, outgoing and well presented
- Resilient and solutions focussed
- This role may involve travel to our customer’s offices and occasional overseas travel to factories.
- Please ensure you have the Right to Work in the UK before applying for this position.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to work with a growing fashion and lifestyle business
- A collaborative, creative, and commercially focused team environment
- Exposure to end-to-end product and packaging design, from concept to retail
- Competitive salary
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