Director of Buying

1 week ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Harding Full time

**About us**:
Harding is leading the way in innovative onboard cruise retailing, adopting a Trinity Partnership approach with our cruise line partners and brand partners to excite and entice customers with unique shopping experiences.We stay at the cutting edge of retailing;consistently providing outstanding customer service and winning global retail awards.

**About the opportunity**:
Are you a commercially adept, senior retail buying professional looking for an exciting new challenge?Do you have significant multi-category experience with excellent management and leadership skills?Can you ensure category efficiency is created andachieved, whilst paying significant attention to margin levels?If sothis unique role at Harding might be the perfect opportunity for you.

**About the role**:
As the cruise industry continues to grow as we move back to “normality” from Covid, we are recruiting for a Director of Buying.Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, the role holds a very significant profile within this exciting and fast paced organisation.You will lead and develop your function through process implementation, whilst striving to improve through change.Managing a large team, you will champion Buying with the Operations team, ensuring category performance is achieved to deliver revenue / margintargets as well as customer satisfaction.Your role will be critical in promoting and advocating the significant opportunity there is within the cruise industry for the vendor community.Similarly, you will lead the Buying team in guiding our numerous cruiseline partners to the right assortments.

**Accountabilities**
- Develop overall category strategies that reflect changing shopper preferences and deliver our financial targets
- Deliver an assortment for each cruise line aligned with our strategy, rooted in shopper insight and back by sound commercial arrangements with our vendor partners
- Develop a robust category review process and embed it in the team as business as usual
- Coach and develop the team, with a mix of informal feedback, more formal training and more specific support where required
- Work closely with the Merchandising team to deliver on stock management KPI’s
- Work closely with the Finance team to deliver financial KPI’s
- Excite the vendor partners about the cruise channel opportunity for their brands, not only in commercial terms but also as a mean for effective brand-building
- Build a pipeline of new category opportunities

**About you**:

- Proven experience in a senior retail buying role
- Commercially astute with a track record of leading and developing teams, financially disciplined and highly numerate
- Significant multi-category experience within a fast-paced retailer, ideally with a blend of branded and own-branded products
- A rational decision maker under pressure
- Must have an existing right of eligibility to work in the UK

Harding is an equal opportunities employer.We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify andbuild.Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding.

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