Leeds
Buyer | Leeds | £50,000 - £55,000 | Lifestyle Retailer | Hybrid\n \nWhy Join?\n \nThis business genuinely values its people and has created a culture where teams feel empowered, supported, and celebrated. Alongside a highly competitive package, you'll benefit from:\n\n£6,000 car allowance\nPrivate healthcare\nBrilliant wellbeing initiatives\nAdditional "just because" perks and rewards\nEnhanced holiday entitlement + bank holidays \nHybrid working; 2-3 days in office \nA collaborative and supportive culture\nReal autonomy and influence\nStrong long-term progression opportunitiesThe Opportunity:\nWe're partnering with an exciting, customer-focused retail business looking for a commercially driven and creatively minded Buyer to take ownership of a multi-category offer. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your ideas, expertise, and leadership will directly shape the future of the brand.\nThis role is perfect for a confident Buyer who thrives on balancing creativity with commerciality, loves product, understands the customer deeply, and enjoys leading from the front. You'll play a key role in building innovative, profitable ranges while mentoring and developing a high-performing team around you.\nYou'll have the autonomy to influence strategy, build exciting product ranges, strengthen supplier partnerships, and react quickly to customer and market trends in a business that truly values agility and entrepreneurial thinking.\nThe Role:\nAs Buyer, you'll lead the strategic development of a commercially successful, innovative, and customer-focused product offer. You'll shape and deliver balanced ranges that reflect the brand identity, excite the customer, and drive both sales and margin performance.\nWorking closely with Buying, Merchandising, Product Support, and Brand teams, you'll oversee sourcing, planning, and trading across multiple product categories ensuring every range delivers both creative and commercial impact.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role suited to an experienced Fashion Buyer with a strong background in product development, strategic trading, and people management.\nKey Responsibilities:\n\nLead strategic range planning across multi-product categories, ensuring strong balance, innovation, and commercial success.\nDevelop and evolve the brand handwriting within your categories to maximise market potential and customer engagement.\nCreate compelling ranges that blend wardrobe essentials with trend-led product tailored to specialist customer needs.\nIdentify product gaps and new opportunities, driving agile and sales-focused decision making.\nBuild and communicate pricing and product strategies using customer insight, performance data, and market trends.\nAnalyse daily trading and sales performance, reacting quickly to maximise opportunities and minimise risk.\nPartner closely with Merchandising to manage OTB, seasonal planning, and budget delivery.\nOversee product launches and trading actions through strong critical path management.\nPresent seasonal strategies, trading updates, and lessons learnt to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.\nContinuously review and improve ways of working across the buying function.\nBuild and maintain strong supplier relationships while identifying and onboarding new partners to support future growth.\nDrive supplier strategy, sustainable sourcing initiatives, and effective commercial negotiations.\nWork collaboratively with Product Support teams to maintain exceptional fit, quality, and consistency standards.\nLead, motivate, and develop direct reports, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.\nMentor junior team members and encourage accountability, growth, and continuous development.What We're Looking For:\n\nProven experience within a buying role, ideally across fashion and accessories\nStrong multi-category buying and strategic range planning experience.\nExcellent commercial awareness with a deep understanding of product, customer behaviour, and trading.\nExperience working within a buyer-led environment.\nConfident people leader with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop teams.\nStrong sourcing expertise and established supplier relationships.\nAnalytical, organised, and highly results-driven.\nExcellent negotiation, influencing, and presentation skills.\nPassionate about product, customer experience, and innovation.\nResilient, adaptable, and thrives in a fast-moving retail environment. BBBH36240