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About the Role
The Buyer, Colour Cosmetics supports QVC UK, leading the sourcing, buying, and merchandising of a differentiated Colour Cosmetics product portfolio to drive sales, margin, and customer excitement across an omni-channel environment.
Responsibilities
- Source, select, and secure a clearly positioned and differentiated colour cosmetics product portfolio that supports long-term brand strategy, target customer needs, and commercial objectives.
- Negotiate the best possible cost prices and trading terms with suppliers, while building strong vendor relationships to deliver innovation, quality, and value.
- Partner closely with Planning, Category Merchandising, Digital, and cross-functional teams to review performance, optimise inventory, and grow the category across multiple channels.
- Develop short- and long-term product and brand strategies for colour cosmetics, ensuring pricing, assortment, and promotional plans align with category targets and market trends.
- Oversee the critical path for key launches, campaigns, events, and hero products, ensuring strong execution and accurate delivery.
- Regularly analyse sales, margin, inventory, vendor performance, and market conditions to make informed buying decisions and drive continuous improvement.
- Work collaboratively with brands to develop new concepts and product opportunities, while maintaining quality standards and supporting QVC’s long-term commercial goals.
- Travel as needed for trade shows, supplier meetings, and industry events to identify trends, strengthen partnerships, and bring fresh ideas into the category.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a Buyer or comparable commercial buying role, with strong expertise in beauty and make up with a solid understanding of customer, product, and market trends.
- Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to manage key performance indicators including sales, margin, inventory, and vendor performance.
- Excellent negotiation, relationship-building, and supplier management skills, with the confidence to influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience developing assortments, product strategies, and pricing plans within a fast-paced retail, omni-channel, or multi-channel environment.
- High levels of initiative, sound decision-making, and the ability to prioritise effectively under pressure.
Skills
- Beauty
- Make up
- Commercial
- Analytical
- Negotiation
- Relationship-building
- Supplier management
- Product strategy
- Pricing plans
Location
- Chiswick Park, West London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
- Parental leave
- Paid volunteer hours
- Company discounts
- Health care benefits starting on day 1 (US market)
- 401(k) (US market)
- Tuition reimbursement benefits (US market)
About the Company
- Working at QVC Group means joining a live social shopping company with incredible teams, ambitious projects and amazing careers.
- QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands - QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road.
Equal Opportunity
- QVC UK is a Disability Confident Leader, level 3 accredited employer and operates a Disability Confident Scheme (“DCS”). For any UK based roles, if you’d like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this on the application form.
- QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
- As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process.
- If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at workwithus@qvcgrp.com for assistance.