Buying Manager

5 days ago

Geelong, Australia Cotton On Group Full time

**ABOUT US**

Born in 2007, Cotton On BODY delivers world class lifestyle experiences through ‘on trend’ innovative ranges, making a difference to our customer in her balanced healthy life.

With products designed in-house across intimates, active, sleep, lounge and swimwear, we are now available in over 150 stores across the globe.

Join our team and help us empower our customers to perform at their best, be happy and feel beautiful

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

**SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**
- Qualification / degree in relevant field i.e. Buying
- Extensive experience in a similar Buying Manager role in retail or fashion
- The ability to engage and influence senior business leaders and key stakeholders
- Proven high level of commercial negotiation skills
- Proven communication skills with the ability to drive and influence change through best practice and delivering results
- Demonstrable analytical problem solving and research skills, to identify and implement creative, innovative and flexible solutions
- Demonstrated high level organisation and planning skills
- Established leadership skills to develop and support the team to delivery brand strategy outcomes

**OUR CULTURE**

Just like our customers, we are fun, passionate, real, effortless and optimistic Part of the Cotton On Group family, we are inspired by empowering women all over the world and are committed to making this a reality through our philanthropic arm, the Cotton On Foundation.

**BENEFITS**

We are committed to personal and professional development, which is supported by an ever growing and expanding structure. We believe our people deserve the best space to their best work and to support this we provide:
50% team member discount for all of our 7 brands. ‍

A world class office with a state-of-the-art Wellness Centre featuring spa therapists, holistic health experts and free fitness classes (think reformer Pilates classes, personal training sessions, yoga studio, spin room and run club)

A brand-new childcare centre onsite - incredible facilities, indoor and outdoor play areas, subsidised cost, and your kids are right next door

️ The Beckley, our in-house café with chef prepared healthy meals, coffee and snacks. You can also grab a nutritious take home meal, taking the stress out of dinner time.

Flexible working - enabling you to find the right working rhythm to be at your best.

Competitive salary packaging - ensuring we are constantly benchmarking to industry.

On-site concierge, let us help you get your life sorted with dry cleaning, car wash and more.

An Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.

Returning from maternity leave (or primary carer parental leave)? Work part-time and get paid full-time for 2 months, all part of supporting you during your transition back to work.

Team mingle celebrations, speaker’s series, surprise and delight moments - the magic happens when we get together.

Do you have a dog? Bring them into the office. We love them
- At Cotton On, we are focused on building a culture centred in belonging, and we are committed to creating workplaces where each individual can show up as their whole self, having an equal opportunity to succeed with us. _
- We are focused on bringing more voices, experiences and backgrounds to our workforce as we drive diverse and inclusive outcomes for our team and our customers. _

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