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BUYER - CHARACTOR LICENSE - FASHION & ACCESSORIES - POD STAFFORDSHIRE - FULL TIME HEAD OFFICE BASED ROLE Our client is a fast-growth licensed pop culture merchandise and clothing wholesale business, supplying major retail partners including Next, Matalan, Amazon and M&;S. Due to rapid growth they are now looking to recruit an experienced Buyer / Product Developer to take ownership of offshore buying across newness for the business, working closely with design, suppliers and licensors to bring ranges to life. This is a hands-on, commercially-led buying role covering apparel and accessories across multiple licences. You'll manage the full product journey from research through to range sign-off, while also overseeing their Print on Demand project and supporting the widerteam. What you'll be doing Buying: ● Managing offshore buys across newness for the business ● Researching licences, categories, competitors, marketplaces and pricing to inform product decisions ● Following the master critical path to keep to production lead times and seasonal deadlines ● Planning ranges and identifying appropriate licences and suppliers ● Preparing and delivering briefs to design and suppliers ● Working with design and suppliers to select designs and develop samples ● Providing detailed buying and sampling comments, with feedback logged and communicated clearly ● Building full range plans including CADs, ratios, quantities, estimated costs, RRPs, stock values and RSVs ● Working to a buying budget to ensure ranges make commercial sense ● Using sales data, comparable products and commercial judgement to set quantities ● Presenting ranges for internal sign-off ● Handing over completed range plans for costing and buying sheets ● Reviewing samples across apparel and accessories, feeding back on fit, construction and quality Print on Demand: ●Managing the POD project ● Planning the POD calendar annually, forecasting option counts , licences and key ranges ● Selecting and prioritising styles based on sales, seasonality, brand approvals and movie releases ● Managing blank selection, purchasing and replenishment across multiple styles ● Buying and managing UK blanks to extend product availability ● Reviewing and forecasting blank requirements to support warehouse and printers ● Overseeing outsourcing of prints through multiple channels Team support: ● Managing and allocating buying-specific workload for Buying Admins ● Feeding workload to both designers ● Supporting the Wholesale team with feedback ● Working closely with Production on all buys ● Supporting Sales Merch with replenishment quantity allocations ● Acting as first point of contact for supplier and licensor queries What we're looking for ● Proven buying experience, ideally within character licensed product, apparel or fashion wholesale - ideally POD ● Strong commercial judgement and confidence working to a budget ● Comfortable interpreting sales data to drive quantity and range decisions ● Excellent supplier and stakeholder communication ● Highly organised, able to manage multiple ranges and deadlines at once ● Experience briefing design teams and reviewing samples is a strong advantage What you'll get ● The chance to work across a varied portfolio of major entertainment and pop culture licences ● A fast-growing business with real scope to shape the buying function ● A close-knit, collaborative team environment

BUYER - CHARACTOR LICENSE - FASHION & ACCESSORIES - POD.

BUYER - CHARACTOR LICENSE - FASHION & ACCESSORIES - POD. Our client is a fast-growth licensed pop culture merchandise and clothing wholesale business, supplying major retail partners includi. Proven buying experience, ideally within character licensed product, app.

BUYER - CHARACTOR LICENSE - FASHION & ACCESSORIES - POD. Our client is a fast-growth licensed pop culture merchandise and clothing wholesale business, supplying major retail partners includi. Proven buying experience, ideally within character licensed product, app.