Junior Buyer – Imaging

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About the role

About the role:
We are looking for a Junior Buyer to join the Imaging Team,

Are you a highly motivated person who uses your knowledge to plan and buy the best ranges for our customers within the Technology category?

Your remit will be to deliver agreed KPIs, including sales, profit, stock, margin and achieving required customer metrics and hit rates. You will analyse commercial input and market trend data to develop and bring to market own-brand and/or branded ranges that optimise opportunities to enable a competitive advantage.

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Salary -   £32,600.00 - £50,500.00

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Contract type - This position is a permanent contract.

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Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The team aim for around 2-3 days a week in the office to include a Wednesday and Thursday to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.

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Location - This role is based at our Pimlico Head Office. 

Key responsibilities

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Working with your Merchandiser, you will analyse commercial input and market data from all channels to develop a category assortment that appeals to the John Lewis & Partners customer base.

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Monitor Partner NPS and customer satisfaction metrics to gauge the impact of assortment decisions on overall satisfaction.While driving sales revenue growth through effective assortment planning and promotional strategies.

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You will work collaboratively with all relevant specialist functions such as Marketing, Online and Store Design to deliver a compelling brand portfolio.

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Be accountable for making decisions on the product assortment: development, sourcing, brand positioning, price structure and margins. These will be in line with category and customer strategy.

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 In collaboration with merchandising, you will need to make season trading and volume decisions along with the commercial terms and product lifecycle with the suppliers.

Essential skills/experience you’ll need 

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Tangible experience in buying, product development,range building, supplier negotiation or critical path

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Experience of managing brand relationships across a variety of commercial terms. 

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Demonstration of a collaborative approach across teams 

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Buying experience working with brands

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Passion for the Tech Category. 

The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.  

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.   

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect. 

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective. 

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.  

Important points to note:   

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.   

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.   

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.  

 

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