Buyer

Overview

As a Buyer, you will manage a portfolio of brands within your category to drive differentiation with key brand groups, optimising growth, space productivity, profitability, and strong 360 campaigns for category penetration. This role includes managing brand relationships, commercial negotiations, joint business planning (including animations), assortment optimisation, productivity, clear pricing principles, and a robust calendar for existing brands and new brand launches. Additionally, you will collaborate with Supply Chain for effective planning and forecasting.

Job Responsibilities

Category Strategy

• Contribute to the development of ANZ category strategy based on market trends, consumer insights, and sales data, to identify white space, optimize growth, space productivity, profitability and strong 360 campaigns to support key natures to gain category penetration

• Manage communication with Market Merchandising teams to ensure effective collaboration in implementing category strategy

• Own brand portfolio, track omni-channel category performance (by channel, markets, segments, margin, productivity, brand conversion & stocks management) vs set KPIs

Portfolio and Brand Management

• Drive differentiation with key brand groups, build and maintain strong supplier relationships

• Manage commercial negotiations

• Conduct joint business planning (including animations) with assigned brand groups, optimise assortment and productivity, and establish clear pricing principles

• Develop a robust calendar of existing brands and plan meaningful and incremental new brand launches

Assortment Planning

• Collaborate with brands to determine the product assortment for omni-channel, considering customer preferences, market trends, and brand positioning

• Work closely with brands and internal stakeholders on planning, coordination & execution of launch plan for assigned brands – annual launch plan and new listing process

Inventory Management

• Collaborate with Supply Chain on effective planning and forecasting to achieve brand targets and healthy stock levels

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics or a related field

• Minimum 4 years of experience in category management, retail buying, or a related field

• Expertise in building category strategies based on market trends, consumer insights, and data analytics

• Proficiency in negotiation of commercial agreements

• Good communication skills with ability to present effectively

• Stakeholder management and influencing skills in a multicultural environment

• Experience in developing and implementing category strategies to drive growth, profitability and market penetration

• Experience in managing brand portfolios, including supplier relationships, commercial negotiations and joint business planning

• Experience in assortment optimization, pricing strategies and managing product lifecycles

• Experience in collaborating with Supply Chain teams for effective planning and forecasting

Sephora is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, or other employment practices. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.