Junior Accessories Buyer

LuxDeco is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Junior Accessories Buyer to join our luxury interiors business. As Junior Accessories Buyer, you will be responsible for sourcing, selecting, and procuring high-quality home accessories that align with our brand's aesthetic and meet the expectations of our discerning clientele. You will play a crucial role in curating our collection, ensuring a diverse and exclusive range of products that solidify our brand's reputation in the luxury interiors market.

**ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Product Development**
- Source and select accessories that align with our luxury brand image, target market, and design aesthetics
- Conduct thorough product evaluations, including quality assessments and material inspections
- Coordinate with the design team to ensure product specifications and requirements are met
- Upload new products and brands on our website, while managing the long tail of products
- Manage the procurement process, alongside the supply chain department

**Supplier Management**
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, and artisans
- Negotiate favourable terms, pricing, and delivery schedules with suppliers while ensuring high-quality standards
- Carry out annual term reviews of your suppliers
- Regularly evaluate supplier performance and seek opportunities for improvement through audits & best practice sharing

**Commercial**
- Stay updated with the latest trends, designs, and innovations in the luxury furniture industry
- Conduct market research to identify emerging furniture designers, manufacturers, and suppliers
- Work in coordination with sales and marketing teams to support promotional activities and sales strategies.

**Reporting**
- Analyse brand pricing and positioning versus competitors
- Report on brand performance (commercially and operationally), including quality feedback

**Key Interactions**
- Supply Chain: aligning on best practice with each brand, acting as escalation contact for any operational issues
- Marketing: partnering on initiatives such as promotion campaigns, look-books, etc...
- E-Commerce: understanding our online experience and buying behaviour of our customers
- Sales & Design: understanding the requirements for our B2B2C team
- Customer Service: understanding the voice of the customers, translation into brand portfolio improvements
- Finance: optimising payment options with brands, and understanding the profitability of each brand

**CORE ROLE KPIs / METRICS**:

- Product / brand conversion rate
- % of brands scoring GREEN, driven by commercial performance and operational metrics (on-time delivery, quality)
- % of brands in direct-to-consumer shipment

**ABOUT YOU**:
**Essential**:

- Proven experience as aJunior Buyer or similar role in the luxury interiors industry
- **Aesthete**: You put quality first in everything you do, always delivering with a perfect balance of commerciality and creativity. You have an in-depth knowledge of luxury furniture trends, brands, and suppliers
- **Customer-obsessed**: You have an intricate understanding of the LuxDeco customer and use this to support your brands in achieving success
- **Entrepreneurial**:You are a self-starter who thrives working in an ambitious, fast paced environment, always looking to drive positive change
- **Data-driven**: You have an analytical mindset with the ability to analyse market data and make data-driven decisions
- **Kind**:You are a positive, engaging and considerate leader who understands that success is only achieved in collaboration with others
- You have strong negotiation and supplier management skills
- Excellent understanding of quality control processes and materials used in furniture production
- Ability to travel and visit vendors / trade shows across Europe

**Desirable**:

- **Qualification**: Qualification in Interior Design, Business or related field
- **Language**: Fluency in more than one language

**WORKING AT LUXDECO**:
By joining us, you are becoming part of a team; a small team, but with big ambitions, and we want to empower you to do great things with us. Below are some of our benefits, alongside other important role details, to help you decide whether this role could be right for you.
- **Your location**:Two days per week from our office space in London (Moorgate). For the remaining three days, you can work from a place that allows you to do your best work
- **Your hours**:40 hours, Monday - Friday
- **Your holiday**:We offer 24 days holiday, plus bank holidays, which increases to 30 days, plus bank holidays, in line with length of service
- **Your financial wellbeing**:

- We pay 8% pension contributions on your qualifying earnings, giving you more security for your future
- We provide access to the workplace nursery scheme, potentially saving you thousands per year on your childcare costs
- **Your health and wellbeing**:

- We offer all our employees access to Healthshield, a health cash plan, cove