Job Description
About the Role:
Step into The Set’s brand new Buying team! This is your chance to be at the forefront of innovation, shaping a cutting-edge team and crafting its identity from the ground up. You'll be pivotal in defining what’s possible and leave a lasting impact. Here’s how you can make an impact.
Why this role?
We’re on the hunt for a passionate and trend-led Premium Womenswear and Menswear Buyer to join our team in Market Harborough. With our stunning new range, The Set, already launched, we’re looking for someone with the vision and drive to take it to the next level.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Range Development: Take the lead in creating a commercially successful collection aligned with The Set's bold vision and Brand DNA.
Fit & Quality Leadership: Drive excellence by leading fit sessions, ensuring all garments adhere to the highest quality standards, and providing strategic oversight for lab dip and strike-off approvals.
Supplier Collaboration: Communicate clearly and effectively with suppliers, ensuring smooth processes and timely deliveries.
Cost Negotiation: Work with suppliers to achieve competitive costs and meet key performance indicators.
Data-Driven Decisions: Analyse sales and trends to identify new opportunities and shape future collections.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Foster strong, collaborative relationships with your team and key divisions such as Marketing and Design, ensuring seamless alignment and driving collective success.
Range Development: Take the lead in creating a commercially successful collection aligned with The Set's bold vision and Brand DNA.
Fit & Quality Leadership: Drive excellence by leading fit sessions, ensuring all garments adhere to the highest quality standards, and providing strategic oversight for lab dip and strike-off approvals.
Supplier Collaboration: Communicate clearly and effectively with suppliers, ensuring smooth processes and timely deliveries.
Cost Negotiation: Work with suppliers to achieve competitive costs and meet key performance indicators.
Data-Driven Decisions: Analyse sales and trends to identify new opportunities and shape future collections.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Foster strong, collaborative relationships with your team and key divisions such as Marketing and Design, ensuring seamless alignment and driving collective success.
Immaculate taste levels for Premium range, coupled with excellent attention to detail is
essential in this role.
This role will cover single Product, as opposed to packs.
Join an extraordinary team where creativity, innovation, and a passion for excellence are at the heart of everything we do. Our team thrives on a shared enthusiasm for Buying and the pursuit of elevating every detail, blending cutting-edge innovation with expertise across multi-fabrications. This is your chance to be part of a collective that constantly pushes boundaries and sets new standards.
With a fresh and exciting launch on the horizon, we’re buzzing with energy and determination to make this range truly stunning.
About You:
Trend Awareness: A sharp eye for what’s next in fashion, especially in Premium Menswear and Womenswear.
Own Label Expertise: Proven experience in developing unique and compelling own-label designs.
Detail-Oriented Approach: Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Entrepreneurial Spirit: A proactive mindset, ready to innovate and problem-solve in a fast-paced environment.
Strategic Innovator: In this role, you'll thrive in adapting to new ways of working and challenging established processes to drive improvement. Your confidence in presenting ideas will be key as you contribute to shaping and building a new brand from the ground up.
This role offers a unique opportunity to play a key part in the growth of our new brand within our own fashion label, where your ideas and contributions will directly influence the success and evolution of The Set.
Experience of working with mid level to Premium Brands is desirable in this role.
Where will you be working?
This is a full time role based at ‘The Barn’ in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Built in 2020, our teams here benefit from a creative, collaborative and open plan working environment that boasts comfort and exceptional design. It’s truly a great place to work.
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: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
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.
About Us
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
About The Team
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email
[email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
