Beauty Buyer
Excel Recruitment
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Generous salary doe
- Bonus
- Pension
- Agile Working
- Staff Discount
- Collaborate with the Buying Director to devise and execute a robust commercial and creative strategy for the designated area.
- Demonstrate a strong commercial orientation, adeptness with budgets, and a track record of achieving commercial objectives.
- Exercise purchasing authority guided by a sound commercial framework to drive sales and profitability.
- Stay attuned to shifts in public opinion and consumer preferences, leveraging expertise in Beauty Brands to spearhead category-sourcing efforts.
- Conduct sales analysis to pinpoint areas for enhancement, leveraging experience to cultivate and fortify commercial relationships with suppliers and partners, while assessing and appraising current suppliers.
- Negotiate favourable terms with suppliers, encompassing margins, trade discounts, and markdown support.
- Ensure diligent management of vendor terms, overseeing monthly gross profit reports and adherence to cost and payroll stipulations.
- Maintain comprehensive oversight of all inventory-related data and insights, including season forecasting, OTB, stock levels, clearance, RTV, and breakstocks across all brands.
- Assess brand performance through thorough analysis and manage existing brands accordingly.
- Foster regular communication with the Head of Digital and their teams to optimise beauty category placement and productivity across digital platforms.
- Engage with Beauty Department managers and General Managers to optimise merchandise allocation for space utilisation, maximising productivity and cost efficiency per square foot, and ensuring impeccable presentation.
- Commercially focused, experience with budgets, and the ability to achieve revenue growth.
- An experienced people manager with experience leading, training & developing a buying team.
- Ambitious and target focused.
- Proven track record of managing relationships.
- Strong influencing skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and a strong negotiator.
- Highly organised and able to manage multiple projects.