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Fashion Buyer

€60000 - €70000 Buyers & Merchandisers Dublin City Centre

Fashion Buyer

I am delighted to be recruiting a Fashion Buyer for this highly progressive Irish family-owned omni-channel retail business. You will be buying the Clothing, Textiles and Accessories within a focused team and a rewarding environment. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative and growing retail brand. Dublin based with flexible working from home options.

Package

  • Salary €60-70k
  • Bonus
  • Pension
  • Illness Benefit
  • Death In Service
  • Staff Discount
  • Agile working

Responsibilities of this Fashion Buyer job include:

  • Create a buying strategy for clothing, accessories, and textiles, that fulfils the group’s direction, maximises market opportunities by understanding trends and customer expectations and needs gathered from market research.
  • Sourcing, selecting, and managing suppliers by attending trade shows, in Ireland and overseas.
  • To devise and negotiate competitive terms and conditions with suppliers to ensure mutually beneficial relations and sustainability for both parties.
  • Working with the Merchandising Manager plan financial budgets and open to buy for the department to achieve category sales and gross margin targets across all channels.
  • Analysing past sales patterns to anticipate trends in consumer buying and forecast future profitable sales.
  • With the Merchandising Manager, evaluate the performance of suppliers in terms of sell throughs, pricing, product quality, return rates, profit margin, sustainability, and delivery.
  • Manage Open to Buy (OTB), options and stock plans for the assortment, supporting operational efficiency and the need to improve stock turn.
  • Manage product lifecycle from launch through to exit of terminal ranges.
  • Work closely with the online team to position the brand as a truly omnichannel retailer and extend the online clothing proposition.
  • Develop good relationships with store and online managers to gather feedback, improve collaboration to achieve a better sell through and enhance our customer experience.

Requirements for this Fashion Buyer job include:

  • Minimum of 5 years experience and a proven track record working in the Retail Sector with a significant understanding of retail buying and selling.
  • A creative multi-tasking individual with excellent range planning and building skills.
  • Creative flair for selecting seasonal clothing and accessories, and knowledge of retail and consumer trends.
  • Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, communication, organisational and presentation skills.
  • Strong analytical skills and proven IT proficiency.
  • The capability to work in a fast-paced environment, juggle agendas and achieve targets.
  • Confidence to be able to forecast and give presentations to all levels of management.

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 Aoife McCaul 01 871 7613 for more information. Unfortunately, due to volume only suitable applicants can be contacted.

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