Buyer and Product Specialist

6 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Fred Perry Full time
Job Title: Buyer and Product Specialist

Fred Perry is seeking a highly skilled Buyer and Product Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our retail and product team, you will be responsible for ensuring that our retail stores and e-commerce channels have the most compelling product offers throughout the year.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Inform and influence range plans based on retail first requirements, taking into consideration performance, trend, and growth global market requirements.
  • Work closely with the Retail and Ecommerce Merchandising team to support the strategy for the retail business with regards to category mix, product lifespan, and buy quantities.
  • Build strong working relationships with key markets, distributors, and key accounts, and communicate market feedback, performance, and best sellers internally.
  • Work with the Merchandising, Brand, and Social Commerce team to ensure trading opportunities are optimised and future risks identified.
  • Be reactive to learnings from marketing activity (email, product launches, campaigns) to support future activity.
Requirements:
  • Product knowledge is essential.
  • Excel knowledge is required.
  • Strong customer, market, and brand awareness and understanding of the impact on our business.
  • Numerate with strong analytical and computer literacy.
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships with other internal and external teams and functions.
  • An eye for detail, with the ability to think about the bigger picture, makes commercial decisions to benefit the brand.
What We Offer:
  • Annual performance-related bonus.
  • Competitive salary, reviewed every year.
  • Generous staff discounts and regular sample sales.
  • A generous pension scheme with an 8.5% company contribution.
  • Option to buy an extra 5-day holiday annually.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity packages.
  • Life insurance.
  • Private healthcare.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Early finish Fridays.
  • Season ticket loan.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Annual birthday vouchers.
  • Regular opportunities to attend gigs or events.

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