Buyers
All of our buyers - no matter what level you join us - need to be fashion-forward. You'll live, eat and sleep fashion. And because you love everything about fashion, you completely get the F&F brand – understand our vision and are excited about delivering a flexible sourcing strategy to support it.
But as much as it's about fashion, we can't lose sight of being commercial – which comes as second nature to you. You'll work cross-functionally to see that we're maximising every opportunity – which means your creativity, lateral thinking and innovation will bring about great results.
Because of the fast-paced nature of our work you'll find that the tides shift constantly, but this is something that motivates and spurs you on.
Heads of Buying
You'll develop and manage the business plan for your area with the Head of Merchandising. You'll lead negotiations – taking the lead and developing effective supplier relationships – for your product portfolio, making sure sales and profit are optimised. Which also means you'll implement plans that include supply chain, range price and promotion planning, as well as initiating actions to achieve targets for buy for less. And to top it off, you'll be the one that's inspiring, managing and motivating your team of Buyers to surpass all goals and expectations!
To succeed, we'll need you to be an established Buying Manager or Head of Buying, with a strong fashion background. Ideally you'll blend this with previous direct sourcing experience and any international experience will only help you make your mark.
Buyers/ Buying Managers
You'll develop and implement the buying plan for your category – constructing and implementing supplier and range plans to wow customers, so your products fly off the shelf. Recognising that fashion is unique to each country but trends are often global, you'll see that their needs are met, as well as implementing the corporate promotions calendar and policies. Naturally you'll take care of the pricing plan for the product range.
You're a seasoned Buyer already, who's got people management experience and whose passion for fashion will inspire everyone around them. You'll be able to show a proven track record in new range introduction and direct sourcing experience is essential.
Assistant Buyers
You'll help deliver on the buying plan for your category – hitting and beating your sales and margin targets – by coming up with customer driven ranges and promotions. With the support of your manager, you'll negotiate continually on product costs and rebates to see that we're driving costs down for customers without compromising on quality. You'll also take ownership of resolving any day-to-day issues with suppliers, distribution and ordering departments.
As an Assistant Buyer, we're looking for someone who's got a good grounding in the basics. You'll have previous experience within a multi site retail consumer business and have a solid understanding of country and global supply chain processes. A love of fashion, a total commitment to customer focus and the ability to work as part of a team are a given.
Trainee Buyers
As your first step into fashion and buying, you'll be keen to learn the ropes. You'll absorb everything going on around you and make a vital contribution, relishing the administrative support you carry out and the exposure it gives you. You'll take on organising and cataloguing sample garments and also updating our critical paths to see we're on track. In fact you'll turn your hand to anything and everything as you strive to learn everything you can.
You'll either be a graduate with a fashion-related degree, or have recently completed your A-Levels and be looking for an alternative career path to university. Either way you've an eye for trend, love working at a fast pace and can't wait to prove yourself. You'll also be confident enough to participate in weekly trade meetings.
