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About the Role
Exciting opportunity to join our existing KGL shoe team to manage and drive trend lead newness into the retail offer of the collection.
Responsibilities
- Develop customer and market-focused own brand product collections, keeping a keen eye on the market, competition, current and forthcoming fashion trends, in-line with Company strategy.
- Constantly review competition to ensure product proposition is in line with the market across fashion trend, price, quality, and availability.
- Visit relevant shoe fairs and fashion shows to ensure the most competitive and appropriate product collections are developed.
- Actively review and manage supplier relationships, sourcing new vendors and de-listing those that no longer meet business needs.
- Continually investigate and propose new product opportunities within the relevant branded market to optimize sales and continuously review the brand portfolio.
- Work closely with the designer to brief, spec, fit, and develop the product, using a good understanding of footwear technically to drive product to market quickly.
- Deliver the Company target of Gross Profit by ensuring collections are in line with Company margin targets.
- Deliver the intake margin target set seasonally.
- Ensure Company sales targets are achieved by buying product appropriate to the brands’ customer profile and current trading conditions.
- Monitor and manage product sell-through rates to meet the Company target.
- Manage a comprehensive and accurate delivery schedule, supporting business needs and dealing with late deliveries by cancellation or achieving suitable discounts.
- Hold meetings with the Merchandiser to review department performance and discuss/agree action plans regarding sales, margins, stock levels, and delivery status.
- Sustain and develop a close and open working relationship with wider business teams to ensure in-season trading decisions happen promptly and efficiently.
- Work alongside the Company Marketing function to ensure product ranges are effectively promoted to the target consumer, communicating product ranges and new developments on a regular and timely basis.
Requirements
- Experience at a footwear High Street retailer
- Proven success delivering commercial collections achieving budgeted margins
- Previous line management experience
- Existing strong supplier relationships
- Possess the ability to drive the brand forward
- Must have experience at Junior Buyer level as a minimum
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Junior Buyer level as a minimum
Benefits
- Free 24 hour virtual GP access
- Enviable staff discounts
- Harrods discount
- Half Day, Pay Day Friday (once per month)
- Summer Hours - 2pm Friday Finish
- Active social committee who arrange a variety of activities such as office drinks, quizzes, free lunches, movie nights etc
- Gym discounts
- Enhanced pension scheme including life assurance
About the Company
- We are an inclusive, creative footwear and accessories brand powered by kindness.
- We want to empower our talent to be confident and true to themselves, the London way.
- London is our home, our heartbeat, and we draw inspiration from the energy and spirit of the city; its diversity and creativity.
- For over fifty years our team of in-house shoe and accessory designers have been creating authentic, distinctive designs from our London headquarters.
- The rainbow is our signature. It represents the good energy and love we have for our community and the many ways we collectively express our individual style.
- We’re an energic fast-paced brand that embraces progress and strives for innovation.
- Hard work is rewarded with new opportunities at every level and kindness is celebrated in everything we do.
- Our summer working hours accommodate a healthy work life balance.
- Wellbeing is important to our working culture, which is why we nurture a friendly environment for talent to thrive in, alongside a vibrant social community.
- The first Kurt Geiger store opened on London Bond street in 1963. Today, our brand has global appeal and is distributed in hundreds of cities around the world.
- We operate over 70 stand-alone stores nationwide, including our new flagship store on London Oxford street, and in over 400 stores globally.
- Beyond stand-alone stores and retail pop ups, our retail partners include some of the world’s most famous department stores.
Equal Opportunity
- We Are One: For Love | For Diversity | For Change | For Equality | For Kindness | For Freedom | For Unity Against Racism