Senior Buyer - Footwear
The Warehouse
- Auckland
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate across departments, from design to marketing, ensuring a cohesive and compelling product offering.
- Your design-focused lens and ability to spot emerging trends will be pivotal in curating commercial ranges that resonate with our diverse customer base.
- Strategic planning and delivery of critical paths, product lifecycle and activations
- Deep-diving into sales data, analysing trends, and drawing actionable insights. Report findings to stakeholders, providing valuable information that shapes our business strategies.
- Work closely with sourcing and suppliers to meet our customers’ needs
- Proven commercial success as a buyer
- Technical knowledge/design experience in footwear is highly desirable
- Strong negotiation skills
- Solid category management experience within retail
- Experience developing branded and own brand categories
- Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills
- A customer driven mindset
- The ability to trade utilising promotional activity and advertising to maximum effect
- Collaborative working style and excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
- Decisiveness in a fast-moving environment as well as a resilient and driven nature
- The ability to build long term sustainable partnerships