Junior Buyer - Skincare in City of London

Junior Buyer (skincare) - Head Office

If you love beauty, you're in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Role Overview

Working closely with the Senior buyer, the objective of the Junior Buyer is to build, manage and report on the performance of the brand and product offer across Space NK stores and online for the allocated categories.

Key Accountabilities

1) Manage commercial performance of portfolio of brands and products with focus on enhancing performance of customer offer on an ongoing basis

• Working with existing brands identify new trends and new products

• Plan and launch new products with a view of maximizing performance of new launches

• Manage performance of underperforming products and brands through communications internally and with brand partners

• Communicate range changes and discontinuations to brands with a reasonable notice period

• Identify and activate quick win commercial opportunities

2) Build strong relationships with our brand partners

• Maintain regular contact with brands and conduct regular performance meetings

• Conduct Market Week planning meetings alongside the senior buyer.

• Develop long-term plans jointly with brands alongside the senior buyer.

3) Work collaboratively with other departments through strong communications and planning

• Communicate key brand and product information with key departments across the business, such as Marketing, Merchandise Planning, Training, and E-Commerce

• Create & maintain joint brand and product marketing plans with other departments, such as Marketing, PR and Events

• Support business improvement and commercial opportunities across departments

• Meet go to market deadlines required by other departments

4) Accountable for the following KPIs

• Category & Brand sales: Overall, YOY, vs Budget

• Brand New Customer Targets: Overall, YOY, vs Budget

• Newness contribution to sales

• Exclusive product launches and contribution to sales

• Range productivity - sales/store, sales/SKU, sales to space productivity

• Stock position: by category and by brand including overstocks and discontinued inventory position

• Category Intake Margin vs Budget

• Incremental brand marketing spend vs Budget

Skills and Experience Required

• Previous experience at Junior or Assistant Buyer level

• Passion for beauty industry, brands and products

• Proactive, entrepreneurial, self-starter who can identify opportunities and pursue them

• Strong people skills with a focus and drive to build strong relationships both internally and externally

• Strong commercial acumen and savvy; comfortable with number and analytics

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point and Outlook)

• Willingness to learn and try new things and openness to change

• Actively seeks feedback from others to develop

Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.

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