Ralph Lauren Buyer - Home & Lifestyle

Position Overview

The prospective candidate will oversee the Home & Lifestyle buying across both DTC and WHSL Channels. This role supports the development and execution of seasonal assortments across Home categories, partnering cross-functionally to drive sales, optimize inventory, and uphold the brand's elevated aesthetic across all channels. From the assortment strategy and product selection to the investment build and OTB management, the candidate will be expected to balance magic and logic, product, and numbers, to optimise brand elevation and deliver commercial success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Assortment Strategy and Product Selection: Synthesise, evaluate, and summarize performance analysis on a seasonal basis. Build and develop a strong understanding of the Home customer, through regular competitor shops, store visits and wider market read. Utilise learnings to formulate sound product strategies that are in line with financial plans, departmental expectations, and overarching company goals. Devise an assortment selection that will deliver such strategies, optimise brand elevation, and secure commercial success. Liaise regularly with key stakeholders across the business to ensure the go-to-market strategies are executed as intended.
• Investment Build and OTB management: Work closely with Planning counterparts to balance the OTB and Revenue KPIs, ensuring the financial framework for categories is optimised yet achievable. Project unit requirements that will deliver the financial framework and balance such KPI's (intake margin, buy cost/units, AIR, gross margin, sales revenue/units, AUR, sell-through). Trade all categories on a weekly basis; Identify areas of risk and opportunity, and drive decisions that will optimise success and re-balance inventory levels where needed.
• Team Input: Coach and nurture junior members of the wider team, utilizing your leadership skills to enhance the full team. Work closely across the wider teams to maintain a strong X Brand, omni-channel, omni-region proposition to the end consumer. Collaborate and build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business, to ensure goals are clear, supported and executed as planned.

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Strong numeric and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize data and identify actions and commercial opportunities accordingly.
• Product focused, with the ability to demonstrate commercial, trend, competitor, and brand awareness.
• Highly organized, with the ability to prioritize workload for self and others.
• Articulate, with the ability to communicate well in both verbal and non-verbal communication forms.
• Influential leadership and team building skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire direct business partners and a wider business audience.
• Resilient, with the ability to see challenge as opportunity, think with a solution-based mindset, yet raise concerns in a confident manner.
• Champion of diversity and psychological safety, with the ability to recognize the value of different perspectives and cultures, while creating a climate that fosters empathy, integrity, authenticity and trust.
• Proficient in Microsoft packages including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Interest in product, craftsmanship, and the home furnishings market.