Junior Buyer
Location: GB, , Twickenham
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Retail
Function: Other
Salary range: 0-0
Company profile: Casafina is a new shopping destination for your home. Each day new sales go live at 7am and last for 72 hours, featuring leading brands and themed sales curated to your individual taste. Casafina members access exclusive savings plus daily style inspiration.
Description: We are looking for an established Junior Buyer (or experienced Senior Assistant Buyer looking for their next career step) with a strong branded homewares background and genuine interest and passion for interior design.Working directly with the Senior Creative Buyer, essential for this position is the ability to work independently and take control of the day to day running of the ‘Tastemaker Sales’, delivering accurate, commercial and inspiring weekly launched sales.Applicants must have the ability to make quick, commercial decisions, take pride in their attention to detail and organisational skills, and with the gravitas to drive sales forward in what will be an extremely fast paced, dynamic environment.A beautiful eye is also essential for this position, along with a natural flair for interior design. As part of the Tastemaker team an interest in design and passion for luxury homeware products is vital as together the team take a creative view to sales supporting marketing and PR and working to engage our members and promote Casafina as an authority on all things interior design.RESPONSIBILITIESAssisting the Buyer to plan, source, promote and launch weekly sales on the site to maximise sales and margin.Build, edit and curate ranges with a creative eye to offer commercial yet inspirational and engaging sales to our members with a focus on current trends, style themes or new brands.Work closely with other buyers to source relevant product, and with other internal departments (content, marketing, accounts & customer services) to provide accurate information as and when required.Build strong and sustainable supplier relations, managing the ordering process, payment, delivery schedules and warehouse stocks.Day to day running of the sales and department to exacting deadlines. Monitor sales and profit, suggesting to Buyer adjustments as appropriate.Managing Buying Admin Assistant to submit and launch on-time sales briefed fully and accurately and updating systems to ensure that product / sale information accuracy is always maintained.Working with Buyer and Tastemaker Team to plan department development and new initiatives/ideas.
Requirements: Essential:Proven buying experience within a fast-paced environment. Works well under pressure.Experience working with homeware brands and UK suppliers (NB. this is not a product development role)Strong interpersonal and organisational skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with colleagues and suppliers alike.Demonstrate a working knowledge of the competitive market place.Strong numerical and analytical skills, high attention to detail and a ‘can do’ attitude.Able to plan, prioritise and focus on the issues, enquiring and logical to deliver practical solutions.Confident in managing suppliers at all levels and Buying Assistant.Strong commercial eye.PC literate (Excel experience essential)Passion for and interest in interior design, trends and homewares product.Desirable:Flash sales / E-tailer experiencePhotoshop
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