Senior Buyer - Womenswear

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Our Buying teams on Tu Clothing are key to delivering our ‘brands that deliver’ strategy. We’re a friendly team who love all things fashion! Our buying teams are responsible for delivering our exciting and ambitious growth plans, offering our customers a great range of products, at a great price, through our multi-channel business.

We absolutely see the value in allowing our colleagues to work flexibly and that’s why our ways of working policy allows you to maintain a great work/life balance and gives you the opportunity to make your hours work for you, with plenty of opportunity to work from home.

This role is accountable for delivery of the Category Strategy by building a Customer Proposition to surprise, delight and exceed customers’ expectations, working alongside the specialists in Merchandising, Global Design, Global Sourcing, Customer Insights and Commercial Strategy.

You will do this by demonstrating the ability to flex your focus from short term commercial to longer term strategic planning when it is appropriate to do so.


As a Senior Buyer You’ll

• Review customer, market and competitor analysis to make category level decisions and build the category strategy, proposition and plan.
• Develop and deliver the range proposition partnering with Merchandising, Global Design, Technical and Global Sourcing to differentiate us vs. the Market
• Partner with Commercial Insights and Commercial Strategy team to build data-led decisions from actionable insights.
• Input into development of channel strategy at category level, working with Digital.
• Work closely with Global Design and Technical to agree product proposition, product requirements, target price & margin framework and quality architecture.
• Liaise with Product & Fabric Technologists to set quality criteria for own label products alongside Global Design.
• Be responsible for identifying gaps in range. Review samples, build range and master assortment (value, quality, price) and present to Buying Manager for sign off.
• Partner with Visual Comms team to ensure instore execution meets category strategy expectations & Digital team to optimise online channel execution.
• Motivate, inspire, coach and develop a diverse high performing team that embraces change in the face of ambiguity and role models Sainsbury’s values whilst delivering against commercial metrics.
• Alongside Merchandising, agree category promotional and events annual plan to maximise customer and commercial metrics.
  
  

Our Buying Team Would Love To See

• Experience working in the Clothing, Jewellery & Watches markets.
• Broad understanding of the UK retail market, constantly open to seeking new opportunities that create competitive advantage.
• Strong financial and commercial awareness built in a trading retail environment.
• Ability to gain commitment from other functions in the business that enable you to execute your strategic plan, role modelling positive and agile ways of working.
• A strategic thinker, who puts the customer at the heart of decision-making, striking the balance between driving business metrics & longer-term objectives, based on optimising the balance of data, multiple perspectives and own intuition.
• Ability to deliver inspirational, inclusive leadership, fostering a values-driven culture, where all colleagues can be themselves and fulfil their potential.
• Demonstrate that you understand the benefit of continuing professional development and exhibit a deep passion for continuous learning and seek to provide and share knowledge widely.
• Consistently exceeds results through the setting of high standards, and galvanising others around common objectives.
  
  

Why Sainsbury’s?
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

As well as a great work-life balance, lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, click here for more detail on our benefits: https://sainsburys.jobs/working-for-us/benefits/


Primary Location
GB-GB-Coventry


Work Locations
Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home


Job
Buying


Schedule
Full-time


Advertised Salary
Competitive