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About the Role
As a Buyer for the Womenswear Branded department, you will shape the brand's collection, ensuring it is fresh, on-trend, and aligned with customer preferences. You will select products, manage inventory, and curate a mix that sells well and reflects the Urban Outfitters aesthetic, leveraging market knowledge, data, and vendor relationships.
Responsibilities
- Create a market-leading branded edit, delivered from concept to customer both online and across retail doors.
- Create balanced initiatives encompassing trend, relevance to the urban customer, quality, value, and key volume as well as exclusive projects, emerging initiatives, and global partnerships.
- Collaborate across functions to ensure complete delivery of concept to customer.
- Liaise with PR, Marketing, Web, Visual Merchandising and Retail Operations teams to ensure timely brand launches, maximized sales, and full department potential.
- Build and maintain excellent brand relationships, identify demand in brands and trends, and develop new relationships to support.
- In-depth knowledge of the women’s branded and own buy market and strong point of view on current and upcoming trends.
- Strong product development skills, ability to balance multiple short and long lead projects within the critical path.
- Strong ability to trade and deliver in-season, managing inventory as well as longer lead strategic initiatives.
- Negotiate the best possible terms with suppliers i.e. margin, minimum guarantees, contracts, marketing budgets and exclusivity whilst reducing markdown.
- Present and drive strategy, ideas and concepts to senior management, in line with business goals.
- Provide leadership to employees and to peers and foster an open environment of continual training and development.
- Manage KPI’s and Open to Buy (OTB) plan, knowing when to change the OTB based on business needs.
- Lead and deliver departmental sustainability goals.
- Represent the brand with integrity and authority, being a true brand ambassador for the business.
Requirements
- Proven experience working in branded buying and product development at Buyer level.
- A real understanding of volume partnerships as well as market-leading ideas and emerging initiatives.
- Entrepreneurial in spirit, with a strong understanding of the Urban Outfitters brand and customer.
- Excellent brand knowledge and grasp of trend, with strong ability to identify fresh talent within new brands from around the world.
- Multi product buying and product development experience and a strong market awareness exhibited through knowledge of relevant brands and reference points.
- The ability to identify emerging trends early on and interpret them in a commercial yet exciting way.
- Clear communicator with the ability to present and support a point of view.
- A team player with the ability to provide leadership, training and motivation to employees and peers.
Skills
- Branded buying
- Product development
- Trend identification
- Market awareness
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Leadership
- Inventory management
- Sustainability goals
Location
- Brick Lane
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Buyer level
Benefits
- Flexible start and finish times
- Bring your dog to work
- Employees Assistance program
- Fully equipped free gym
- On-site wellness room
- 50% discount of external gym memberships
- Private Medical Insurance
- Up to 40% off at all URBN Brands
- One paid day to volunteer or fundraise for a charity of your choice
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Structured support within the business
- Continued learning and development
About the Company
- Urban Outfitters started out as a single boutique in 1970s Philadelphia with creativity and uniqueness at its core.
- 50 years on, and over 60 stores across Europe later, we’ve become a destination for emerging design, unexpected styling, One-Of-A-Kind vintage and homeware that makes you want to hit the share button.
- We speak to a social community of over 10 million forward-thinking individuals, bringing together a nostalgia for the past with an enthusiasm to shape the future.
- The UO community are culturally aware, they shape the music scene, they live a digitally native life and they wear style trends before anyone else.
- At our core, we empower our customers and staff to express themselves, unapologetically, living life in a way that's truly authentic to them.
- We are always excited to bring new talent into the room, especially if you share our values: Progressive, Creative, Inclusive, Responsible, Compassionate.
Equal Opportunity
- URBN is an Equal Opportunities Employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
- We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, marital status, religion, race, or disability.
- We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.