-
Product/Buying Director
4 days ago
Edinburgh Woollen Mill Carlisle, United KingdomHere at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product/Buying Director to based at our Head Office in Carlisle. · Relocation assistance available · The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 400 units, including High Street, Tour ...
-
Retail Product Director
20 hours ago
Edinburgh Woollen Mill Carlisle, Cumbria, United KingdomHere at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product/Buying Director to based at our Head Office in Carlisle. · Hit Apply below to send your application for consideration Ensure that your CV is up to date, and that you have read the job specs first. · ...
-
Retail Product Director
4 days ago
Edinburgh Woollen Mill Carlisle, Cumbria, United KingdomHere at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product/Buying Director to based at our Head Office in Carlisle. Relocation assistance availableThe Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 400 units, including High Street, Tourist & ...
-
Buyer Fashion
6 days ago
Roc Recruitment Carlisle, United KingdomMarket leading high street fashion retailer are seeking a Ladieswear Buyer who have with exceptional flair and a true passion for the product. · Looking to speak to buyers must have previously bought ladieswear for a major high street fashion retailer who will have a full knowled ...
-
Senior Buyer
2 days ago
Perfect Career Carlisle, United Kingdom**Job Title: Senior Buyer (Homeware experience preferred)** · **Location: Carlisle, CA3 8SY** · **Hours: 37.5 hours a week · - Monday · - Friday** · **Salary: Competitive Salary** · Our client, one of the UK's leaders in the retail industry, is offering an outstanding employment ...
-
Buyer's Assistant
4 days ago
Reed Business Support Carlisle, United Kingdom**Buyer's Assistant · - no experience needed** · We are exciting to be recruiting in partnership with a National retailer, based in Carlisle for a number of their exciting roles. We are looking for someone looking to start their career in the buying industry. · - Diary management ...
-
Finance Business Partner
6 days ago
Reed Finance Carlisle, United KingdomFinance Business Partner - Carlisle - Immediate Start available. · We are pleased to be working with an impressive, market leading company based in Carlisle to recruit a Finance Business Partner to work in partnership with the Finance Director and operational leaders to drive bus ...
-
Buyer
1 week ago
Wine and the Wood Carlisle, United KingdomWe are seeking a passionate and knowledgeable Wine Buyer to join our dynamic team at Wine and the Wood, a start-up wine e-commerce business based out of Cumbria. As a Wine Buyer, you will play a pivotal role in curating an exceptional selection of wines, spirits, and associated p ...
-
Buyer
1 day ago
Wine and the Wood Carlisle, United KingdomWe are seeking a passionate and knowledgeable Wine Buyer to join our dynamic team at Wine and the Wood, a start-up wine e-commerce business based out of Cumbria. As a Wine Buyer, you will play a pivotal role in curating an exceptional selection of wines, spirits, and associated p ...
-
Milker
1 week ago
MW & JH Gaitskell Carlisle, United Kingdom**About Us** · We are a family run dairy farm, supplying milk for the production of items you'll buy on a daily basis. We take great pride in producing the highest quality milk for a range of products with the Arla label on it. · We regard staff welfare the highest of our priorit ...
-
HR Coordinator
1 week ago
Adecco UK Carlisle, United KingdomAn exciting opportunity for a HR Co-ordinator has become available with one our clients, a fast paced, professional and friendly business based in Carlisle. This is a new, key role to support the developing HR Business Partner model within the business. · The HR Coordinator will ...
-
Customer Service Assistant
1 week ago
Cumberland Building Society Carlisle, United KingdomWe want to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our communities and our people. This means, as a customer-owned organisation, we're passionate about doing the right thing and helping people achieve their goals. Whether it's our customers that are saving for t ...
-
Retail & Fashion / Merchandising / Retail
1 week ago
Success Appointments Carlisle, United KingdomSuccess Talent is seeking a dynamic and experienced Concessions Coordinator to join a highly successful retailers Merchandising team based at their Head Office in Carlisle. If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, ...
-
Junior Buyer
2 days ago
Hadrians Resourcing Carlisle, United Kingdom**Role: Junior Buyer** · **Locations · - Carlisle, Lancaster, Stone, Kirkbride, Micklow** · **Duration: Permanent role** · **Hours: Full time** · **Salary: Competitive base salary, plus car allowance, pension + benefits** · **Role overview**: · My client is a successful multi-dis ...
-
Customer Adviser
1 week ago
Cumberland Building Society Carlisle, United KingdomOur purpose is to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our communities, and our people. This means, as a customer-owned organisation, we're passionate about doing the right thing and helping people achieve their goals. · Whether it's our customers that are sa ...
-
Collections Administrator
3 days ago
Cumberland Building Society Carlisle, United KingdomBorderway Finance is the largest motor vehicle finance company based in Cumbria, specialising in helping people buy new and used cars, motorbikes, and light commercial vehicles. Borderway Finance is part of the Cumberland Building Society, a Mutual organisation, committed to impr ...
-
Marketing and Social Impact Lead
4 days ago
Babcock International Carlisle, United Kingdom**Marketing and Social Impact Lead**: · - Location: Carlisle, GB, CA24 3HZ- Company: Cavendish Nuclear- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid**Job Title: Marketing and Social Impact Lead** · **Location: Westlakes - Fleswick Court, UK - Hybrid** · **Role Type: Full time / Permanent** · **Role ...
-
On Screen Journalist
2 days ago
ITV Jobs Carlisle, United Kingdom**On-Screen Journalist, Border Life** · **ITV News Border** · **Full Time, Permanent** · **Location**:South of Scotland** · **Closing Date: 8th March 2023** · **Why you should join us** · ITV News delivers high quality and trustworthy coverage attracting record audiences. · **Thi ...
-
Branch Merchandise Admin Assistant
9 hours ago
Quest Search and Selection Carlisle, United KingdomQuest Search & Selection are currently working with this omnichannel retail business who have over 100 stores and a strong presence online and also via their member's club. · They are looking for Branch Merchandise Admin Assistant who can offer daily administrative and analytical ...
-
Senior Garment Technologist
1 week ago
Perfect Career Carlisle, United Kingdom**Job Title: Senior Garment Technologist** · **Location: Carlisle** · **Salary: Competitive** · **Hours: 37.5 hours a week** · We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Garments Technologist to join our client, a leader in the fashion and retail space, at their Head Office in ...
Product/Buying Director - Carlisle, United Kingdom - Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Description
Job Description
Here at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product/Buying Director to based at our Head Office in Carlisle.
Relocation assistance available
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 400 units, including High Street, Tourist & Destination sites, predominantly Fashion and Home.
Head Office
Our Head Office is located in Carlisle, Cumbria. Carlisle has a principal station on the West Coast main line from London Euston and sits on the M6 motorway. This location provides ready access to the major facilities expected of a city, combined with the possibility of living in one of the finest countryside areas in the UK.
Almost every conceivable type of outdoors and countryside activity is at hand. There are fishing rivers, hill walking areas and golf courses nearby and the Lake District is a short drive away.
High Street stores
We have mainstream high street stores selling ladies and menswear for the 45 plus customer. Outlets are located in a wide variety of market and provincial towns across the UK and Ireland
Tourist Shops and Visitor Centres
We have specialty tourist stores, where gift items and other products reflect the stores location. The outlets, which trade under an individual, often local, fascia, are in key tourist locations throughout the UK. Many stores are on busy tourist routes and benefit from coach visits where food service and exhibitions are all part of the attraction.
Destination Shopping
There are Destination Sites which contain all of the Company's concepts and other brands to increase their attractiveness as a retail destination. The sites trade under local, individual fascias such as Antartex Village, and Kernow Mill, Mackinnon Mills.
If you are passionate about the brand looking for a new challenge then Edinburgh Woollen Mill is the place for you
The role
• Create, develop and deliver the total product strategy for all product categories.
• To work with the Merchandise Director to be responsible for the overall critical path, ensuring all projects and activities are delivered to schedule.
• Manage and maintain all product development tools, including margin report, tracker, cost breakdown and packs.
• Research current trends feeding back areas of opportunity and risk to the business.
• Lead the product life cycle, ensuring all teams deliver to timeline.
• To establish and maintain appropriate standards of quality, ensuring correct garment composition and construction.
• Drive the front end product development strategy and implementation cross functionally ensuring progress of sampling/fabric/pricing in line with dates required for progress and sign off meeting.
• Work with sourcing to develop a sound supply policy, striving for consistent best practice partnerships, Foresee future weaknesses and needs, suggesting possible solutions.
• Ensuring quality is not compromised through margin gain, and the target margin is maintained.
• Ensuring that developments meet brand integrity.
Customer
• Know the customer and how they distinguish from their competitors; use this information to drive the product evolution of the business strategy.
• Have strong customer orientation, with an in-depth understanding of the marketplace and the ability to translate knowledge of emerging trends to drive margin and profit.
Commercial
• Proactively drive awareness of competitor's activities and initiatives
• Strategic ability to look beyond current process and help define and implement more efficient and effective ways of working going forward.
• Manager the negotiation process to ensure agreed target margins are achieved or exceeded.
Key Skills
• Have extensive experience in leading design, sourcing, development, buying and technical teams with a thorough understanding of all departments.
• Have a credible background in Buying across womenswear and menswear.
• Have a vision for the business.
• Equally commercial and creative
• Will have an excellent eye for product.
• Will possess excellent product knowledge with proven experience in conceiving product concepts that drive business.
• Will be an excellent communicator, highly collaborative
• Will have a hands-on approach.
• Will have effective and proven negotiation and networking skills at all levels, both internally and externally with an ability to work with multiple stakeholders.
• Will be results oriented and target focused when accomplishing a task or project; demonstrates the ability to manage and enable the process of change.
Leadership
• Successfully lead the buying, design, sourcing and technical teams to build and deliver the product ranges.
• Together with the Directors, define and communicate clear vision of the future, translating this into understandable goals and targets.
• Build strong teams with a focus on succession planning.
• Develop, coach and support the growth of the buying, design, sourcing and technical teams, to deliver their agreed targets and ensuring the teams are aware of the bigger picture.
• Will be very people focused, with the ability to build relationships quickly to gain support and drive and facilitate cross-functional teams.
