Job description

What's the role about?

As part of our Womenswear department, you'll be joining our as our Buyer, who is responsible for developing and building a commercial range that maximises sales and profit opportunities across UK and international markets, setting seasonal budgets, and ranking collections.

What you'll be doing

Hitting agreed Reiss DNA, quality levels and target margins

Ensuring the collection is balanced and all product categories are working together and represented through the grades

Identify areas of opportunity and growth as well as areas in decline

Managing the pricing architecture and developing product that allows the production team to achieve the margin targets

Leading garment approval ensuring garments are correct fit, colour and trim

Leading the buy meetings and trade the collection, preparing your teams and presenting collection to the CEO

Working with the Marketing Department on which products to promote across email, social and campaign, and shoot lookbook with Creative Director

Act as a coach and build the capability of all team members you interact with

Profile

Who you are

Previous Buying experience within a premium or luxury clothing retailer

Strong commercial awareness

Excellent leadership and negotiation skills

Experience managing a team and delivering results

Strong numerical and analytical skills

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Excellent time management skills; able to priorities and work to tight deadlines