Buyer - Stylerunner

**About Us**:
Part of the Accent Group portfolio of brands, Stylerunner is the world’s leading digital destination for premium activewear & footwear, delivering the latest on-trend styles to the fashion devotees around the globe who love to lead an active lifestyle. We have a fun and collaborative culture, dedicated to delivering excellence for our customers.

**The Role**:
Reporting into Head of Buying - Stylerunner, you will be responsible for responsible for the selection, purchasing and deliver range strategy for assigned brand. To ensure maximum profitability in line with company vision, divisional purpose and brand positioning in consultation with the Head of buying. You will be consumer focused and financially sound to build the relevant product plans within your portfolio to meet the business targets and company vision.
This is the ideal role for an experienced Buyer within the retail industry in apparel or footwear. You will be required to build strong relationships with both internal teams and suppliers to achieve the outcomes of the role.

**Your key responsibilities will include**:

- Work with Head of Buying and Planner on full year financial and strategic planning of Brand shares
- Review brands on regular cycles to ensure financial targets are met and risks highlighted (Monthly Forecast Reviews)
- Conduct regular trend research and monitor brand health to ensure relevance for the consumer
- Exceptional understanding of the fashion activewear and lifestyle market, with an ability to interpret trends and build ranges to ensure brand cohesion
- Build seasonal introduction, training & VM directive to deliver to retail team
- Develop a range selection and product grading in line with business and consumer needs
- Ensure category/gender/seasonal trends are reflected in ranging
- Identify sales trends highlighting best and worst performers and areas of opportunity
- Ensure assortment depth and size curves are relevant and in line with sales trends
- Analysis of category performance, macro market (domestic and international), direct competitor, customer and store feedback and trends to build deep understanding of the customer and the business
- Manage and maintain strong brand partner partnership to ensure market leading assortment
- Negotiate best commercial outcome including intake margin, markdown assistance and/or rebates
- Liaise and collaborate with Brand Partners and Marketing to ensure successful launches and campaign executions, delivering strong ROI
- Source new and relevant brands to enable category growth
- Review of sales at store and brand level, highlighting opportunities
- Weekly in-depth review of portfolio and delivery of performance/suggested actions at Trade Meetings
- Regular reviews of forward order and current inventory hold, highlighting opportunities and risks
- Work with Marketing & Retail Teams to ensure key items are promoted and featured in campaigns

**To succeed in this role, you will need to have**:

- Demonstrated experience as a Buyer within fashion retail
- A strong track record in successful trading, resulting in achieving allocated sales and KPI’s within a retail business
- Demonstrated experience in Multi
- Branded Retail Space is advantageous
- Be trend driven with a strong understanding of the market in branded ath-leisure and footwear
- Degree in a related discipline (not essential)
- Ability to multi task and, meet tight deadlines and work under pressures
- Advanced excel, word and power point skills
- Affiliation with Accent Group Core values and “Make It Happen” attitude.

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