Assistant Buyer - SEVENSTORE
FOOTASYLUM
Date: 3 days ago
City: Rochdale, England
Contract type: Full time
About SEVENSTORE:
SEVENSTORE connects people through fashion, community, and collaboration.
With a globally curated assortment of designers and brands, SEVENSTORE offers a unique collection of clothing, footwear and accessories from luxury fashion houses, archetypal contemporaries, and collaborative behemoths to the forefront of fashion, with the aim of bringing retail, creativity, and distinctive storytelling into one destination.
Inspired by globally recognised fashion houses next to emerging talents, SEVENSTORE sets out to merge together local and global communities. With consumer-focused space set out to share experiences through fashion, music, culture, and art.
Driving forward the future of fashion and opening opportunities for creative minds, we are looking for talented individuals who understand the ethos, product, and culture of SEVENSTORE.
The Role:
Reporting to the Buying Manager you will work towards taking full ownership of selected brands within SEVENSTORE’s roster, with the support of the Buying Manager and wider buying team. You will have a direct influence on the business, working closely with other departments to ensure any commercial opportunities are maximised, whilst maintaining the SEVENSTORE brand.
Reponsiblities:
From Buying, Merchandise, Creative, Ecommerce and Marketing, the inclusive nature of SEVENSTORE will allow you stay in communication with the wider team, while the focal point being within your department. This will help you to achieve goals, surpass targets and bring leading collections of clothing, footwear and accessories to the retail space.
Driving forward the future of fashion and opening opportunities for creative minds, we are looking for talented individuals who understand the ethos, product, and culture of SEVENSTORE.
Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are iterating concepts for SEVENSTORE.COM. Diversity for us is about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.
Recruitment Process
We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit, one of our Talent team will reach out for an informal chat about the role and to see if we’re a good fit for you.
We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.
Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend our Studio or Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.
SEVENSTORE connects people through fashion, community, and collaboration.
With a globally curated assortment of designers and brands, SEVENSTORE offers a unique collection of clothing, footwear and accessories from luxury fashion houses, archetypal contemporaries, and collaborative behemoths to the forefront of fashion, with the aim of bringing retail, creativity, and distinctive storytelling into one destination.
Inspired by globally recognised fashion houses next to emerging talents, SEVENSTORE sets out to merge together local and global communities. With consumer-focused space set out to share experiences through fashion, music, culture, and art.
Driving forward the future of fashion and opening opportunities for creative minds, we are looking for talented individuals who understand the ethos, product, and culture of SEVENSTORE.
The Role:
Reporting to the Buying Manager you will work towards taking full ownership of selected brands within SEVENSTORE’s roster, with the support of the Buying Manager and wider buying team. You will have a direct influence on the business, working closely with other departments to ensure any commercial opportunities are maximised, whilst maintaining the SEVENSTORE brand.
Reponsiblities:
- Manage and develop brand portfolio
- Develop relationships with the existing supplier base, while seeking new ones
- Competent and confident in managing brand relationships
- Maintain communication with brands, identifying any issues and taking appropriate action
- Ensure excellent communication and interaction with other departments within the business
- Brand mix/category reporting and planner creation
- Contribute towards the category buying strategy by informing consumer-centric decision making
- Attending selected key meetings in a support and learning capacity with the Buying Manager
- Have ownership and accountability for own stable of brands
- Initiate and research new business opportunities
- Participate and contribute to trade and strategy meetings
- Research and present brand, product group and consumer profiles for internal insights
- Research trips to our Baltic Triangle store, competitors and relevant events to provide key information on new trends which will then be presented to the team
- Proven work experience within a buying multi category buying department with at least 2 years experience
- Excellent commercial awareness
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong level of market awareness and an understanding of where SEVENSTORE lives within this ecosystem
From Buying, Merchandise, Creative, Ecommerce and Marketing, the inclusive nature of SEVENSTORE will allow you stay in communication with the wider team, while the focal point being within your department. This will help you to achieve goals, surpass targets and bring leading collections of clothing, footwear and accessories to the retail space.
Driving forward the future of fashion and opening opportunities for creative minds, we are looking for talented individuals who understand the ethos, product, and culture of SEVENSTORE.
Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are iterating concepts for SEVENSTORE.COM. Diversity for us is about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.
Recruitment Process
We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit, one of our Talent team will reach out for an informal chat about the role and to see if we’re a good fit for you.
We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.
Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend our Studio or Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.
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