lululemon ASAP START Senior Buyer Womens (12 months) in London

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. We create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. Our success is attributed to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. We focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future, including creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

Reporting to the Buying Manager, our Senior Buyer is responsible for the assortment, execution, and depth of the buy of their specific product category across all channels. The Senior Buyer leads strategic assortment planning, determines locally relevant assortments, and acts as a competitive market expert for their region. This role involves effective partnerships with Planning, In Season Country teams, Visual Merchandising, Digital, Brand and Community, and Retail Operations to deliver "right product, right stores, right time." Additionally, the Senior Buyer develops other members of the regional buying team and creates strong relationships with North American counterparts.

You contribute to the financial success of the region by meeting and exceeding sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals through all channels (stores, ecommerce, strategic sales, & showrooms), in partnership with the Planning team. You are a market expert in your product category and region for all channels and can effectively communicate key data points, including merchandising strategies, athletic and fashion trends, pricing and competition that inform the global product strategy.

• Using the preliminary Global Assortment, create a compelling, locally relevant product assortment for the region's store clusters.
• Proactively gather, analyse and drive insight from local market knowledge and competitive landscape across all channels.
• Lead the quarterly product reviews ("meltdown") for your product category, delivering timely, measurable, and actionable feedback.
• Act as the primary point of contact for product feedback from your region's product category.
• Formulate and define local pricing strategies.
• Lead the in-season management of your product category, through sales analysis, flow management, product education, chase, cancellations, markdowns and exit.
• Train, support, and develop our Buyers and Assistant Buyers.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years' experience in retail in a merchant or buying role.
• Bachelor's degree qualified (Business, commerce preferred).
• Vertical retail and omni channel experience highly desirable.
• Mastery of retail mathematics and Open to Buy.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments.
• Proven ability to work with and lead a cross functional team.
• Excellent sense of style and colour trends; athletically minded.
• Excellent communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal.
• Entrepreneurship - an ability to make decisions and take calculated risks.
• Focus on creating an extraordinary guest experience, organisational and time management skills.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement (goal-oriented).
• Willingness to travel and work on the retail floor.

Must Haves:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

Your role is classified as Hybrid under our global SSC Hybrid Workplace Policy. In-person collaboration is important, and much of the role can be performed remotely. Work is performed at both the SSC office and home office every week.