Junior Buyer Fragrance Look Fantastic

THG is a fast-moving, global technology business that specialises in taking brands direct to consumers. Our world-class proprietary tech and infrastructure powers our extensive portfolio of beauty, nutrition and lifestyle brands and is now helping drive exponential growth of our clients' brands globally.

We're powered by a global team of over 10,000 ambitious people around the world. Our culture is fast-paced and entrepreneurial, it's this DNA that has supported our incredible growth.

We're always looking for individuals that can bring fresh and innovative thinking to THG, and play a part in driving the group forward on its exciting journey. So, if you're ready to take the next big step in your career, challenge yourself every day and evolve with the world around you, THG is ready for you.

**Purpose of Role**: The Junior Buyer is responsible for delivering continued sales and profit growth across their accounts, executing strategy & building strength in relationships with each brand partner.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy Development**:

- Collaborates to plan, build and execute a strategy for sustainable growth and development of the account
- Conducts regular reviews of ranges within their brands
- Keeps up to date with industry/market trends and networking opportunities to help further build brand plans & relationships

**Brand Planning**:

- Leading and developing brand relationships in line with company values to build a best in market joint business plan and achieve business benefits including market leading promotions, first to market launches, exclusives and investment into promotional & marketing support to maximise performance.
- Works in close alignment with commercial marketing to ensure execution of all paid activations is successful and aligned with JBP
- Responsible for building, managing and delivering the category and brand budgets, providing a clear and structured rationale for how each budget is to be achieved given the agreed upon JBP and marketing exposure
- Works in close alignment with PR and events team to ensure collaboration with our brand partners
- Communicates key JBP activations by brand to site managers and marketing teams to ensure the successful execution of the JBP
- Works in close alignment with the site managers and marketing teams across the division to ensure brands are well represented on site & across channel
- Forms & nurtures strategic brand relationships building strength in relationships with key brand partners to leverage investment opportunities, terms discussions and their global networks.
- Continuous monitoring and review of category performance to analyse sales patterns, advises teams and ensures appropriate action is taken to unforeseen sales reactions.
- Arranges (6 months in advance) strategy meetings with brands, devising clear agendas, objectives and working cross functionally beforehand to gather relevant information to prepare a presentation that crafts a meaningful story for each brand meeting and enables a best in class JBP
- Monitors satisfaction with all brand partners to ensure best in class delivery
- Reporting
- Takes responsibility for demand planning by brand alongside merch team to ensure every brand always has the stock needed to maximise budget performance
- Manages the selection of a market leading product range, using customer insights and feedback to maximise new product opportunities and range visibility, to create an unparalleled customer experience and maximise sales and profit to achieve KPI's
- Manages and accountable for their brand P and L with a clear understanding/ownership of stock in trade, open to buy, aged and overstocks, territory participation, promotional funding, retro agreements and trading margin.

**Team Development**
- Develops skills of the team - identifies individual training needs as well as encourages effective teamwork, KPI's setting and communicating clear goals/targets.
- Motivates team - gives recognition and praise, implementing incentives to drive performance within the team.
- Provides support to new team members - ensures a full induction is provided and support during the learning process

**KEY BEHAVIOURS**
- Team player - able to collaborate across functions
- Initiative - able to think outside of the box
- Organised
- Assertive
- Pro-active and positive attitude
- Developing Self and Others
- Driven and goal orientated
- Passionate
- Can demonstrate an operational and strategic mind set
- Can build strong relationships
- Can work cross functionally across teams to deliver the best outcome for our brand partners and our business.

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS**
- Prioritise, structure work & effectively manage time
- Financial and analytical ability - ability to budget and review performance
- Excellent communicator - able to give clarity and set direction
- Commercial awareness of the beauty industry
- Strong knowledge of your brand partners
- Ability to form good working relationships with internal tea