Buyer - Branded Footwear

With our online Branded 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. Collaborating with many key stakeholders to make this happen. What You'll Take On The role involves developing commercially successful product ranges by taking the lead to build a departmental strategy. You will be responsible for selecting the best product, by building strong relationships with brand partners, displaying excellent trend insight & market awareness and by analysing data to plan across all categories. Collaboration with merchandisers, operations team and marketing is key to this process. You will be required to interpret sales data and trends to quickly identify new opportunities. You will also be responsible for spotting and recruiting the best brands. Effectively manage your team by delegating resources and workload, ensuring team members stay motivated and focused. Collaboration within the business and cross departmentally to achieve results is essential.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Womenswear Buyer to join the Brands department at Next. This team is full of industry experts who live and breath all things Footwear and have years of experience in the industry! We are looking for an ambitious individual who can drive departmental growth through seeing opportunities and creative solutions. Additionally, you will be responsible for planning and buying the product, delivering agreed KPIs for sales, markdown and profit. 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: . 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. At NEXT, we believe the best work happens when there are no barriers to collaboration. That's why we are a Google-powered workspace. From your very first day, you'll be using the full Google Workspace suite; Docs, Drive, and Meet, to stay connected and move fast. If your previous experience is rooted in other software suites, don't worry! We'll point you to a digital Google toolkit the moment you join, packed with handy guides and insider tips to help you transition smoothly and hit the ground running. #LI-Onsite About Us: You know Next, but did you know we're a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We're the UK's 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we're the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it's now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we've gone global! About the Team:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit-related bonus - based on company performance
• Management share options
  
  Private medical insurance
• Sharesave scheme - make savings from your net pay to buy NEXT shares at a discount
• Pension - fixed contribution rates from both an employer and employee perspective, but you're also able to make additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) if you wish to save more.
• Life assurance
• Group income protection
• Wagestream - helping you make the most out of your money
• Salary finance - offers access to affordable loans repaid through salary, simple savings and free financial education.
• 25% staff discount on most NEXT products - plus discount on other products
• Direct to work - NEXT orders delivered free to the office for collection
• VIP sale - early access to the NEXT sale
• Access to NEXT staff shops
• Octopus energy - like cycle-to-work, but for electric vehicles
• Free parking (excluding London locations)
• Travel2NEXT - bus services dependent on location
• On site dining facilities (excluding London locations)
• National and local discounts on goods and services - this includes things like discounted cinema tickets
• Wellhub - includes access to discounted gym membership
• Simply health - a healthcare subscription service
• Aviva Digicare Workplace+ healthcare service - 7 Free services including Digital GP appointments and an annual health check.
• Onsite GP - Leicester Head Office
• Onsite Physio - Leicester Head Office
• A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
• Free eye testing - voucher to use at specific locations