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About Us:
Showpo is the Australian owned, global, social media led ecommerce brand, redefining fashion retail for the new generation.

Showpo was established in Sydney in 2010 from our Founder & CEO Jane Lu's garage. Forward to now, we have disrupted the traditional retail model, are a global fashion destination and one of Australia's home grown true global success stories. We pride ourselves on empowering women worldwide and being one of Australia's largest and most successful social media brands.

2023 was a hugely successful year for us and 2024 is looking to be even better Sound interesting? Read on...

The Role:
Showpo's newest Buyer will focus predominantly on driving growth in Showpo’s key categories across in-house brand, White labels and bought product with specific focus on our most critical category - dresses

A Showpo Buyer is responsible for building commercial ranges (in collaboration with the design team, product selection from external suppliers). All facets of category trading including reporting, go live planning and being a key support to our amazing Junior Buyers.

**Day to day, you will be doing**:

- Weekly reporting, which includes trade report, best and worst, new arrivals, repeat orders and markdown management
- Responsible for managing and building a commercial and desirable own buy/floor range that meets sales budgets, margin targets & closing stocks, inline with RRP architecture, OTB budget requirements and customer expectations
- Understand and fill gaps (newness, repeats, developments etc ) in the range driving the trend and fashion relevance
- Having a clear understanding of our customer persona’s & regional requirements (counterseasonal offerings / ranging)
- Managing CAT portfolio from core lines to newness, including; markdowns, allocating go-live trends, TN updates & reshoots to ensuring product has the best opportunity to sell
- Trend, pricing and competitor research to identify product relevant to the customer through social media and local market research
- In conjunction with senior team, sign off monthly newness drops alongside the design team to create a balanced and desired range aligned with trade analysis, trend/colour research
- Seasonal analysis including SWOTs, seasonal bring backs, comp shops and key learnings
- Work collaboratively with the marketing and eCommerce teams
- Effective mentoring and management of your team, ensuring they feel supported and encouraging their growth

**Who are we looking for?**:

- Highly commercial and analytical mindset
- Proficient in own label buying - dresses category highly regarded
- Prior experience in people management
- Exceptional communication skills with a collaborative approach to work

**What's in it for you?**:

- Our embedded culture of Think Big, Get S**t Done and Have Fun gives everyone the ability to make a massive impact across the entire organisation. We are a fun team with a high-growth hustle
- Flexible working environment including working from home
- 50% staff discount on Showpo product
- Staff sample sales once a month with proceeds donated to charity
- Your own individual growth plan developed with your manager
- Celebration is part of our core DNA from social events, to cruises on the harbour, to costume parties and Karaoke. We work hard and celebrate connecting as a team
- Dog friendly office, Breakfast Bar
- Employee Assistance Program (external mental health support)
- Company wide I S**t Rainbow Awards - Reward & Recognition Program - come and celebrate your colleagues with bubbles every Friday

At Showpo we are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can belong and be their authentic selves. We strive to craft a culture that reflects the diversity of our customer, where our differences make us stronger and help us become better humans. We celebrate our people and support them, ensuring we’re a workplace welcoming to all, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work. We are on a journey and sometimes might make mistakes, but we are committed to learning, growing and backing up these words with positive action.