Fashion Buyer

Fashion Buyer

Excel Recruitment have an amazing buying opportunity for a strong Fashion Buyer who is passionate about fashion and an expert on upcoming trends. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a highly commercial and progressive buying office for one of the most iconic fashion retailers in Ireland. Dublin city centre.

Salary: €60-€75k plus generous benefits.

Responsibilities of this Fashion Buyer job include:

  • Source, develop and build product ranges to reflect current trends, ensuring each range is commercial and meets company objectives, sales targets and customer needs
  • Analyse performance and review current range to ensure that sales, margins and profit are achieved
  • Take appropriate action in-season on repeats, cancellations and rescheduling of orders
  • Prepare for & present regular range reviews and presentations
  • Negotiating with a wide supply base to ensure the best possible price and margin for goods is achieved
  • Maintaining and building strong working relationships with the supply base and sourcing new suppliers
  • Keep up to date with and interpret trends, and constantly review competitors in the marketplace
  • Collaborating with the design team on trends and product development
  • Presenting to senior management
  • Take responsibility for own development as well as manage the training of junior team members

Requirements for this Fashion Buyer job include:

  • 5+ years’ experience in a similar role
  • Significant experience in a fast-paced Buying role
  • Passion for product
  • Skilled negotiation techniques, organisational and influencing skills
  • Developing and implementing departmental strategy
  • Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with other stakeholders

Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below, and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume, only suitable applicants can be contacted.

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Food Buyer

Food Buyer

My client, a highly successful food retailer, is seeking a commercial and innovative Food Buyer to join their expanding buying team. This is an amazing opportunity to join a highly established food business.

Salary – €80-90k plus generous benefits

Responsibilities of this Food Buyer job include:

  • Manage a portfolio of brands, including product selection, range reviews, new listings, and delistings based on market needs.
  • Analyse performance data to optimise ranges, improve margins, and meet sales targets.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, stakeholders, and internal teams.
  • Source new products and suppliers and coordinate promotional planning and communication.
  • Ensure customer and wholesale requirements are met across range, pricing, presentation, and promotions.
  • Collaborate with the buying team and lead by example, promoting clear communication and team support.

Requirements for this Food Buyer job:

  • 5+ years of food buying experience
  • Excellent communication skills with commercial aptitude
  • Proven track record in achieving required sales and margin
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
  • Good numerical and IT skills

Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below, and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume, only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#AISAOI

Food Buyer

Food Buyer

My client, a highly successful food retailer, is seeking a commercial and innovative Food Buyer to join their expanding buying team. This is an amazing opportunity to join a highly established food business.

Salary – €80-90k plus generous benefits

Responsibilities of this Food Buyer job include:

  • Manage a portfolio of brands, including product selection, range reviews, new listings, and delistings based on market needs.
  • Analyse performance data to optimise ranges, improve margins, and meet sales targets.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, stakeholders, and internal teams.
  • Source new products and suppliers and coordinate promotional planning and communication.
  • Ensure customer and wholesale requirements are met across range, pricing, presentation, and promotions.
  • Collaborate with the buying team and lead by example, promoting clear communication and team support.

Requirements for this Food Buyer job:

  • 5+ years of food buying experience
  • Excellent communication skills with commercial aptitude
  • Proven track record in achieving required sales and margin
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
  • Good numerical and IT skills

Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below, and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume, only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#AISAOI

Food Buyer

Food Buyer

My client, a highly successful food retailer, is seeking a commercial and innovative Food Buyer to join their expanding buying team. This is an amazing opportunity to join a highly established food business.

Salary – €80-90k plus generous benefits

Responsibilities of this Food Buyer job include:

  • Manage a portfolio of brands, including product selection, range reviews, new listings, and delistings based on market needs.
  • Analyse performance data to optimise ranges, improve margins, and meet sales targets.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, stakeholders, and internal teams.
  • Source new products and suppliers and coordinate promotional planning and communication.
  • Ensure customer and wholesale requirements are met across range, pricing, presentation, and promotions.
  • Collaborate with the buying team and lead by example, promoting clear communication and team support.

Requirements for this Food Buyer job:

  • 5+ years of food buying experience
  • Excellent communication skills with commercial aptitude
  • Proven track record in achieving required sales and margin
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
  • Good numerical and IT skills

Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below, and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume, only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#AISAOI

Fashion Buyer

Fashion Buyer

Excel Recruitment have an amazing buying opportunity for a strong Fashion Buyer who is passionate about fashion and an expert on upcoming trends. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a highly commercial and progressive buying office for one of the most iconic fashion retailers in Ireland. Dublin city centre.

Salary: €60-€75k plus generous benefits.

Responsibilities of this Fashion Buyer job include:

  • Source, develop and build product ranges to reflect current trends, ensuring each range is commercial and meets company objectives, sales targets and customer needs
  • Analyse performance and review current range to ensure that sales, margins and profit are achieved
  • Take appropriate action in-season on repeats, cancellations and rescheduling of orders
  • Prepare for & present regular range reviews and presentations
  • Negotiating with a wide supply base to ensure the best possible price and margin for goods is achieved
  • Maintaining and building strong working relationships with the supply base and sourcing new suppliers
  • Keep up to date with and interpret trends, and constantly review competitors in the marketplace
  • Collaborating with the design team on trends and product development
  • Presenting to senior management
  • Take responsibility for own development as well as manage the training of junior team members

Requirements for this Fashion Buyer job include:

  • 5+ years’ experience in a similar role
  • Significant experience in a fast-paced Buying role
  • Passion for product
  • Skilled negotiation techniques, organisational and influencing skills
  • Developing and implementing departmental strategy
  • Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with other stakeholders

Aoife Clarke is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below, and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume, only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#AISAOI

Assistant Food Buyer

Assistant Food Buyer

My client, one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses is seeking a commercial and passionate Assistant Food Buyer to join their highly reputable business in Belfast. The successful candidate will implement the retail business development plans incorporating range, price, promotion, and supply chain across the company’s well-established brands.

Package:

  • Salary £26-30k
  • Bonus
  • Pension
  • Agile Working
  • Career Progression opportunities

Responsibilities of this Assistant Food Buyer job:

  • Take ownership for the sales, margin and cash profit of a given product area to an allocated budget with the support of the Senior Buyer.
  • Work with category planning team to conduct range reviews, decide on optimum ranges for the business and planograms for C&C’s.
  • Review competitor price positioning, assess current pricing and margin performance and maximise retailer margins and competitive position within the market.
  • Plan events and promotions as per event calendar and brief, communicate to suppliers and review proposals, brief suppliers on promotional requirements, review proposals and negotiate improvements to offers.
  • Plan and co-ordinate a range of seasonal products to maximise sales and margins.
  • Work with the supply chain team and the supplier base to ensure product availability to customers.

Experience required for this Assistant Trading Manager job:

  • 2 years` experience working within a Trading/ Buying environment
  • Strong commercial acumen with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Very high level of accuracy with demonstrable right first-time ethos
  • Ability to understand how actions taken across the business affect sales and margin performance of the category
  • Excellent attention to detail; passionate about getting all projects right first time.
  • Strong influencing and negotiation skills
  • Ability to prioritise workload and differentiate between urgent and important tasks
  • Excellent Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) & Outlook skills
  • 3rd level business related degree

Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#INDBUY

Food Buyer

Food Buyer

Excel Recruitment is seeking a Food Buyer for one of Ireland’s largest and most successful Retail and Food Service business. This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic Food Buyer to add value to Ireland’s most innovative and creative food retailer. Dublin City based.

Package

  • €50-80k
  • Bonus
  • Car Allowance
  • Further company benefits

Responsibilities of this this Food Buyer job include:

  • Managing a portfolio of brands including product range and selection, introducing new brands and delisting existing suppliers or brands as market conditions demand
  • Analysing performance and reviewing current ranges, taking action where appropriate
  • Establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and stakeholders in the business
  • Maintaining and improving margins
  • Identifying new opportunities and suppliers
  • Sourcing and agreeing products for promotions and communication of such information to retailers, wholesale, sales and marketing teams
  • Meeting customer and wholesale sales requirements in terms of range, pricing, presentation and promotions
  • Co-operating, working with and supporting other members of the buying team to ensure that the overall division operates as an effective and efficient unit
  • Lead the team by example: ensuring effective communication, support and recognition structures and practices are in place

Requirements for this Food Buyer job:

  • 5+ years Food Buying experience
  • Excellent communication skills with commercial aptitude
  • Proven track record in achieving required sales and margin
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
  • Strong organisational and outstanding problem-solving skills
  • Good numerical and IT skills

Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#INDBUY

Assistant Food Buyer

Assistant Food Buyer

My client, one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses is seeking a commercial and passionate Assistant Food Buyer to join their highly reputable business in Belfast. The successful candidate will implement the retail business development plans incorporating range, price, promotion, and supply chain across the company’s well-established brands.

Package:

  • Salary £26-30k
  • Bonus
  • Pension
  • Agile Working
  • Career Progression opportunities

Responsibilities of this Assistant Food Buyer job:

  • Take ownership for the sales, margin and cash profit of a given product area to an allocated budget with the support of the Senior Buyer.
  • Work with category planning team to conduct range reviews, decide on optimum ranges for the business and planograms for C&C’s.
  • Review competitor price positioning, assess current pricing and margin performance and maximise retailer margins and competitive position within the market.
  • Plan events and promotions as per event calendar and brief, communicate to suppliers and review proposals, brief suppliers on promotional requirements, review proposals and negotiate improvements to offers.
  • Plan and co-ordinate a range of seasonal products to maximise sales and margins.
  • Work with the supply chain team and the supplier base to ensure product availability to customers.

Experience required for this Assistant Trading Manager job:

  • 2 years` experience working within a Trading/ Buying environment
  • Strong commercial acumen with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Very high level of accuracy with demonstrable right first-time ethos
  • Ability to understand how actions taken across the business affect sales and margin performance of the category
  • Excellent attention to detail; passionate about getting all projects right first time.
  • Strong influencing and negotiation skills
  • Ability to prioritise workload and differentiate between urgent and important tasks
  • Excellent Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) & Outlook skills
  • 3rd level business related degree

Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website or call 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#INDBUY

Food Buyer

Food Buyer

Excel Recruitment is seeking a Food Buyer for one of Ireland’s largest and most successful Retail and Food Service business. This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic Food Buyer to add value to Ireland’s most innovative and creative food retailer. Dublin City based.

Package

  • €50-80k
  • Bonus
  • Car Allowance
  • Further company benefits

Responsibilities of this this Food Buyer job include:

  • Managing a portfolio of brands including product range and selection, introducing new brands and delisting existing suppliers or brands as market conditions demand
  • Analysing performance and reviewing current ranges, taking action where appropriate
  • Establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and stakeholders in the business
  • Maintaining and improving margins
  • Identifying new opportunities and suppliers
  • Sourcing and agreeing products for promotions and communication of such information to retailers, wholesale, sales and marketing teams
  • Meeting customer and wholesale sales requirements in terms of range, pricing, presentation and promotions
  • Co-operating, working with and supporting other members of the buying team to ensure that the overall division operates as an effective and efficient unit
  • Lead the team by example: ensuring effective communication, support and recognition structures and practices are in place

Requirements for this Food Buyer job:

  • 5+ years Food Buying experience
  • Excellent communication skills with commercial aptitude
  • Proven track record in achieving required sales and margin
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
  • Strong organisational and outstanding problem-solving skills
  • Good numerical and IT skills

Aoife McCaul is handling the recruitment for this role in complete confidentiality. Please upload your CV below and she will be in touch should you have the correct experience for the position. For more jobs like this, please visit the Excel Recruitment website. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.

#INDBUY