Junior Buyer | Mr Price

Mr Price Vacancies – Job vacancy for Junior Buyer

Join our team as a Junior Buyer at Mr Price, where you’ll play a pivotal role in offering our customers trend-led assortments at great value. With a focus on current trade and future design-led initiatives, you’ll contribute to our mission of delivering fashionable items to our customers every day.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Current Trade:

• Drive current trade through agility and responsiveness to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Develop action plans to address product performance issues, collaborating with planners and providing feedback to management.
• Communicate changes impacting other departments such as resource allocation, marketing, and visual merchandising.
• Monitor and manage sales performance, pre-production timelines, and delivery milestones.
• Manage supplier relationships and resolve delivery issues.
• Conduct competitor analysis and share findings with the Buying Brand Merchant and team.

Post Mortem & Seasonal Strategy:

• Compile post-mortem trade reports and formulate seasonal strategies based on learnings.
• Develop sub-category strategies to guide seasonal assortment frameworks.
• Create seasonal supplier strategies, emphasizing agility and risk management.
• Present seasonal strategies to senior business leaders.

Assortment, Booking, and Production:

• Confirm trends and source samples for assortment building.
• Coordinate with designers to ensure timely production of graphics and artwork.
• Collaborate on assortment building and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Verify alignment with KPIs, width & depth, and sales targets.
• Coordinate booking process with production timelines and in-store deliveries.
• Ensure quality and alignment with production timelines during fit and pre-production sample process.
• Raise purchase orders and amendments in detail.

Team Commitment:

• Actively contribute in team meetings and working sessions.
• Provide direction, coaching, and guidance to the trainee buyer.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• Degree/Diploma in Fashion Design or Clothing Management (advantageous).

Experience:

• 1-2 years of buying experience (Manufacturing experience advantageous).

Knowledge/ Skills:

• Knowledge of garment construction, fabrics, fibers, and quality.
• Trading mentality.
• Negotiation and presentation skills.
• Product knowledge.
• Understanding of the merchandise process.