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Buyer @BrandAlley

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Founded in 2008, BrandAlley is the UK’s leading off-price premium and luxury brand e-tailer across fashion, home, beauty, and lifestyle. We partner directly with over 500 premium brands offering luxury products at exclusive prices to our members. We are a fast-paced, rapidly growing, and dynamic retailer, and we’re looking for talented, fresh-thinking, and driven individuals to join us!

We are looking a Buyer to join BrandAlley’s successful buying team! A passion for product and customer is a must and an eagerness to learn within a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will already be an experienced Buyer, ready to hit the ground running and manage their category competently.
Please note this is a hybrid position, based at our Shoreditch office 3 days per week.

What will you be doing?

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Delivering individual financials: sales, margin and profit through trading their own category.
• Negotiating Best Prices ensuring the offer is the most competitive in the market for the duration of the campaign.
• Continual sourcing of brands, ensuring we have the best product and offers whilst making speedy and commercial decisions.
• Executing Daily Sales in line with monthly targets offering a balanced range with sales targeted at the customer.
• Delivering a strategy that is reviewed and flexed on a monthly basis to ensure delivery of business targets.
• Reacting in season to department performance ensuring targets maintained.
• Conveying a sense of urgency to make things happen.
• Ensuring critical path deadlines are met and the wider teams are not jeopardised.
• Understanding of competition, brands and keeping up to date information on competitive sales to assure we are offering the best sale within the time the sales are live. Constantly reviewing online competition and share new ideas.

• Demonstrating market knowledge to negotiate and deliver the best value to the BA customer while delivering a high sell through for the brand.
• Attending weekly trade meetings to analyse and establish current performance in order to deliver an action plan to ensure sales targets are met.
• Communicating with marketing and production to ensure all sales are traded and have the marketing support to overachieve.
• Arranging and attending brand meetings to create understanding of high value negotiations and sale planning.
• Dealing with obstacles demonstrating a “can do” attitude whilst delivering accurate results.
• Maintaining a flexible and proactive approach.
• Commercial acumen.

• Responsible for developing junior team members on the Department – through coaching, training and developing with regular reviews and constructive feedback.
• Ensuring performance reviews are executed twice a year and objectives and goals are agreed and monitored, in order for them to be more effective in their roles.
• Understanding the roles and responsibilities of other departments and ensure they are supported with information required for them to perform their roles in an effective manner.
• At all times be an ambassador for BrandAlley developing and maintaining positive supplier relationships

• Previous experience in managing own buys and brand pursue list is essential.
• You’ll have a good understanding of the latest trends, with a keen interest in the latest fashion.
• You’re highly organised, self-motivated and have a flexible approach to managing high workload along with ad hoc tasks.
• You have strong analytical skills and a good knowledge of Excel.

• You’re a motivated individual, able to work independently and as part of a team.
• You have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You’re proactive in problem identification and resolution.

• A modern, energetic, dynamic, and sociable office based in London's Shoreditch.
• The opportunity to work on some exciting brands supported by an inspiring and friendly team of people.
• Competitive salary.
• 25 days holiday – Additional 1 day for each completed calendar year capped at 30 days!
• 8% employer pension contribution.
• Life Assurance – 3 x your annual salary
• Early Finish Fridays every week.
• Everyday Benefits – including Cycle to Work scheme, discounted Gym Memberships
• Eyecare Vouchers

Who are we?

BrandAlley is the go-to destination for designer brands at fantastic, exclusive prices. We’re a members-only site home to hundreds of some of the best high-profile labels in fashion, beauty and home. We stock an extensive selection of previous and current season stock at up to 90% off the RRP, from Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen to Molton Brown and Philip Kingsley. With new brands launching every week, our flash sales are exclusive and filled with highly in-demand pieces that mean time is of the essence! For an instant luxury hit, our members can also shop in our permanent designer treasure trove – the Outlet – where everything is available for immediate dispatch.

We understand that privacy and the security of your personal information is extremely important. BrandAlley UK Ltd collects, processes, and ensures the security of all personal data that we gather in accordance with data protection laws.

BrandAlley UK Ltd are proud to be an equal opportunities employer who provide equal employment opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

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