Beauty Buyer

Debenhams has an impressive heritage, having traded on the high street since 1778 and evolving into Britain’s leading online department store. Your Team Debenhams is fast becoming a leading beauty destination, known for its curated mix of iconic and emerging brands. We’re passionate about delivering an elevated beauty experience to our customers in a rapidly changing retail landscape. If you thrive in a fast‑paced, ever‑evolving environment and want to play a key role in driving growth, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

With bold plans and ambitious targets, we’re looking for a Beauty Buyer to help shape the future of our beauty category and support the next chapter of Debenhams’ journey.

Your Role

We’re looking for a commercially aware, detail‑driven Beauty Buyer to join our dynamic team. You will get the opportunity to:

• Create joint business plans and build strong brand partnerships.
• Represent Debenhams at trade shows and industry events.
• Identify and onboard new brands to strengthen and diversify the beauty offering.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Negotiating commercial terms with suppliers, including pricing, margins, exclusivity, and payment terms.
• Staying ahead of beauty trends, using consumer insights and competitor analysis to inform product selection and strategy.
• Curating a trend‑led, commercially balanced assortment across mass and prestige beauty.
• Using data to drive performance, managing sales targets, margin, inventory, stock turn, and profit metrics.
• Leading continuous improvement through regular range reviews and SKU optimisation.
• Collaborating cross‑functionally with marketing, tech, content, and e‑commerce teams to support brand launches, activations, and promotional campaigns.
• Working closely with the marketing team to align on brand and product priorities for each campaign, and to define funding targets, launch plans, and wider commercial objectives.
• Supporting activity in the London showroom, including contributing to the events calendar, coordinating new brand launches, and assisting with influencer and brand takeovers.
• Curating brand and product ranges for Debenhams Group sites, securing brand approvals where required.
• Managing and developing a Buying Assistant, providing clear guidance, support, and coaching.

Working with us

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate, and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.

More About You

• 5+ years in buying, ideally within beauty and e‑commerce.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing key performance metrics.
• Trend‑led, with a finger on the pulse of product innovation and consumer behaviour.
• Excellent negotiation and relationship‑building skills.
• High proficiency in Excel.
• Experience working with prestige beauty brands and strong industry relationships with key beauty brands and stakeholders.

Why Join Us?

• You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes.
• Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis.
• Benefits that support your health and wellbeing.
• There’s up to 40% discount off all of our brands.
• Our social calendar? Next level.
• With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe (some are dog friendly!), we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the Boohoo family culture wherever you work.