Buyer

2 weeks ago

Carlisle, United Kingdom Edinburgh Woollen Mill Full time

Here at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our vibrant head office team as a Buyer based at our Head Office in Carlisle, Cumbria. If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you


The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 400 units, including High Street, Tourist & Destination sites, predominantly Fashion and Home.


Head Office

The company headquarters are in Carlisle, Cumbria. Carlisle has a principal station on the West Coast main line from London Euston and sits on the M6 motorway. This location provides ready access to the major facilities expected of a city, combined with the possibility of living in one of the finest countryside areas in the UK.

Almost every conceivable type of outdoors and countryside activity is at hand. There are fishing rivers, hill walking areas and golf courses nearby and the Lake District is a short drive away.


High Street stores

The Edinburgh Woollen Mill has mainstream high street stores selling ladies and menswear for the 45 plus customer. Outlets are located in a wide variety of market and provincial towns across the UK and Ireland


Tourist Shops and Visitor Centres

We have specialty tourist stores, where gift items and other products reflect the stores location. The outlets, which trade under an individual, often local, fascia, are in key tourist locations throughout the UK. Many stores are on busy tourist routes and benefit from coach visits where food service and exhibitions are all part of the attraction.


Destination Shopping

There are Destination Sites which contain all of the Company's concepts and other brands to increase their attractiveness as a retail destination. The sites trade under local, individual fascias such as Antartex Village, and Kernow Mill, Mackinnon Mills.


The role:


  • To develop the product ranges and presentation in line with agreed product strategy, brand and store values, ensuring the ranges represent the agreed image and value levels.
  • Utilising historic data and trends plan and implement the product strategy for areas in conjunction with the Merchandiser to meet the agreed sales and margin objectives.
  • Working with the Sourcing Manager/Sourcing Trainee Manager develop the plan implementation of the strategy for intake margin growth assuring security of supply/risk assessment fully incorporated.
  • Drive the front end product development strategy and implementation cross functionally ensuring progress of sampling/fabric/pricing in line with dates required for progress and sign off meeting, i.e. all elements of range planning/range development
  • Ensure range plans, product brief, design brief, fabric brief, fit sessions, colour issue etc. are completed in full to agreed dates within the critical path and are progressed effectively internally and externally.
  • Ensure amendments to any aspects of point 5 are communicated effectively and in full internally and externally.
  • Working with Design, Visual Merchandising and Marketing ensure effective planning and implementation of window strategy/visuals/photography, range manuals, layout guidelines etc.
  • Ensure process of continuous review of product performance and trends to maximise sales and margin on season and forward, and appropriate action taken
  • Ensure a thorough knowledge of the stores/competition/opportunities/threats etc through store visits and detailed market study ongoing.
  • In areas required, provide effective management, evaluation and development of the supplier base.
  • Support and coaching of line reports – ensuring training roles have full structured training/development plan
  • Manage costs in line with agreed budgets and generally within guidelines.


If interested in the above please apply today

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