Careers

The Role

Department: Buying & Merchandising.

Reporting to: Head of Trading.

Key Objective:
The objective of this role is to maximise commercial opportunities within our Equestrian and Field Sports categories by ensuring we have the right technical product, at the right price, delivered at the right time and communicated to our customers effectively.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements

• Take an active role in building new season strategies.
• Ensure we have the right mix of products and depth per category.
• Identify new product/brand trends appropriate for our customers.
• Buy all products for brands you are responsible for, ensuring sound justification for your decision making.
• Manage all stages of placing an order for brands you buy, with support from the team.
• Manage all terms negotiations for brands you buy.
• Be the main point of contact for all brands you buy.
• Build strong working relationships with the brands you buy.
• Understand the brands’ key marketing activations for future seasons and work with internal teams to help build ours, helping to deliver some marketing activity.
• Manage and develop a junior member of the team.

• Improve the sales and stock position of all brands you buy, working closely with other members of the B&M team, actively help with pricing, re-ordering, overstocks, marketing campaigns, deliveries etc.
• Interact with other teams to improve seasonal performance and drive best practices.
• Conduct detailed ad-hoc analysis when required on specific products/product groups.
• Ensure all websites have the optimum size and depth of product ranges and price points to support and deliver international growth.
• Ensure understanding of the marketplace landscape through use of google analytics and google trends.

Further Information

About the Company
We are B2C Distribution, a fast-growing global e-commerce retailer with websites in the Surfing / Sailing, Equestrian and Field Sports markets. We are proud to be Europe's largest supplier of watersports clothing and equipment and have a fast-growing presence in the Equestrian (www.thedrillshed.com) and Field Sports (www.pegandthread.com), which we are planning to expand rapidly over the next few years. In all our markets our mission is to provide our passionate consumers with the best range of technical products so they can get the most out of their riding (sailing or surfing). We are now seeking an ambitious Buyer to help us achieve our mission in the equestrian and field sports markets. If you have the right skills and a fast-paced, informal working environment is one you thrive in, we are keen to hear from you.

Location

London/Shoeburyness/working from home as required.