Senior Buyer

As the Senior Buyer you will be responsible for ensuring the regional revenue, stock and margin goals are achieved.  

You will own and drive the Omni channel buying strategy for the business, ensuring the business is consistently powered with ‘hot product’, sourcing strategically across regions and the supplier base to ensure best price is achieved and bottom-line margin is protected.

You will be responsible for driving aggressive growth across the department, whilst maintaining BAU with as little friction as possible in an ever-changing landscape. You must be innovative, and entrepreneurial, consistently delivering new ideas, problem-solving and resolve focussed to compliment growth.

You must demonstrate strong analytical skills; confidently reviewing sales and stock data on a regular basis in order to gain a sound and understanding of product performance. You must be confident in using this knowledge to lead the regional buying strategy, communicating insight with the rest of the team in order to identify focus tasks for the month / week. 

You will manage junior members in the Buying team, leading from the front, ensuring all BAU tasks and new processes are managed end to end, with you as the best practice point of contact. You will lead the team on a daily basis- ensuring all members consistently have the tools and framework to be able to meet/exceed their KPI’s. 

You will drive and communicate any business-critical communication that needs to happen across the business. You must be a confident communicator, ensuring product vision is clear in order to support other departments in the business.

Requirements

• You’ll be able to keep pace with a constantly evolving business and relish a challenge. 
• Motivated to be part of a fast-paced, late-stage start-up 
• Resilience and positive attitude through an ever-changing environment and new business initiatives 
• Problem solving, resolve focussed, inquisitive approach to work
• Hands on, agile working approach, pragmatic and able to prioritise changing workload 
• Keen interest in Luxury Fashion  
• Very strong knowledge of brands and current trends 
• Commercial awareness including pricing knowledge of luxury goods
• Strong communication and organisation skills
• Confident in leading a team and working with other key stakeholders in the business to drive a department

Benefits

Our Benefits and Perks: UK

• Vitality at Work + Private Medical Insurance plans
• Denplan
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Pension
• Staff discounts
• Enhanced Parent Program + Parental Leave
• The Inclusive Threads DE&I Program
• 25 Days Holiday
• Paid sick leave
• Flexible working

About Threads:

Want to help build the future of luxury fashion commerce? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Threads is a creative, luxury fashion personal shopping and commerce business. Through social and chat-based media, we inspire our international client base to discover the rarest luxury items. We then search the globe to procure them for our clients; this is the future of retail.

About Threads:

Want to help build the future of luxury fashion commerce? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Threads is a creative, luxury fashion personal shopping and commerce business. Through social and chat-based media, we inspire our international client base to discover the rarest luxury items. We then search the globe to procure them for our clients; this is the future of retail.

Threads is in Tech City’s Future Fifty programme which recognises some of the UK’s growing businesses, pioneering the best luxury shopping experience in the world!

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Equity in selection practices

Threads practise equity in selection because we want to provide underrepresented groups with access to opportunities, and us, access to great people. We ask candidates to share their demographic data in the application so that we can prioritise under represented groups in the first part of our selection process to provide an equitable funnel. All candidate offers are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If we have two candidates at the final stage, we choose the best candidate for the job.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and have committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities. We are working towards improved employment practices to ensure those with disabilities receive full and fair consideration for all types of vacancies as well as for training, career development and promotion. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Last updated on Aug 13, 2024