Buyer - Label Home - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Buyer - License Furniture - 12 months fixed term contract
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Label Home
49000 - 94000
Head Office Leicester
Working Pattern: Typically 4/5 days in office with core hours flexible between 8am-6pm.

Next is the biggest fashion and lifestyle retailer within the UK & Europes largest online retailer. We have 8 million customers on the website selling in 72 countries selecting from 280 million products which are sold by us each year. Our brand is highly trusted. Everything we do represents genuine value for money.

With our online business constantly growing Total Platform continuing to strengthen and our retail stores remaining distinguished for our customer base our buyers have a big responsibility to create attractive and profitable product ranges across the business. They collaborate with our Designers Merchandisers and Technologists to put together stylish new collections for every season.


Your role
The role involves developing a commercially successful product range by taking the lead to build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and analysing data to plan across all categories. Collaboration with designers and merchandisers is key to this process.

Create commercially successful ranges that closely align with our NEXT DNA. Analyse sales data and trends to quickly identify new opportunities. Effectively manage your team by delegating resources and workload ensuring team members stay motivated and focused. Collaborate within the internal design and merchandising teams and with the internal sourcing division. Take ownership of the critical path.


About you
You will have the ability to manage multiple product ranges effectively and a clear understanding of our License partners brand DNA. You should ideally be an experienced Buyer with strong analytical and planning skills. You should be able to easily identify the latest trends for this category and have a comprehensive understanding of the market competition. An in-depth knowledge of Furniture is essential along with proven experience of Buying license products. A proven track record in identifying opportunities to streamline the critical path and trade ranges in-season is crucial. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal are necessary for effective collaboration.
An enthusiastic attitude and a team-player mindset are valued attributes in this role. We would ideally like to bring in a Buyer with expert knowledge in this industry!


Your team
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join the team Home Brands & License at Next. This team is full of industry experts who live and breathe all things Homeware. This role will be a platform for an experienced self motivated Assistant Buyer to embrace the challenge of working with a successful and very fast paced department. You will be responsible for planning and buying the product. The job would be based in our Enderby office Leicester.


Your benefits
Well discuss more of what youll get when you work for Next at interview but heres an overview of what you can expect:

• Profitrelated bonus
• 25 days holiday and the opportunity to buy more
• Company car / allowance
• Contributions into a pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Sharesave scheme which allows you to invest in Next and claim your share of our success
• A fantastic restaurant coffees shops and juice bar
• Staff shop
• Free parking on-site including car sharing
• Free company bus service to and from Leicester city centre and other areas
• 25% staff discount on most Next products either in our stores or delivered directly to your desk
• On-site nursery (salary sacrifice scheme) in Leicester
• National and local discounts on goods and services
• A digital GP healthcare service

Sponsorship
Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements. For further information please see: aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition feel free to get in touch with us by email (please include Workplace Adjustments in the subject line) or call us on 0 and leave a voicemail.

We encourage early applications for our roles as our recruitment process begins as soon as the role is advertised. If we successfully fill the position this advert may close earlier than planned.