Associate Buyer, Disney Store Fashion

Associate Buyer, Disney Store Fashion

Job ID: 10114815

Location: London, United Kingdom

Business: Disney Store

Date posted: 3月. 27, 2025

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

Bring your Assistant Buyer experience to Disney Store - working with our Softlines Apparel categories! Under the leadership of the Buyer, you will lead the team and drive the assortment strategy for these key categories across all of our Disney characters and brands. You will curate the range to meet our targets, positioning it to capture new audiences and drive incremental growth. This role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week in our Hammersmith, West London office, plus one day working from home.

What You Will Do

Pre-season

1. Develop and execute a merchandise assortment strategy for Softlines that supports the team's sales volume and margin goals.
2. Maintain awareness and understanding of market competitors and identify growth opportunities.
3. Partner with planning to maximise margin rate and manage product life cycle, aligning on rankings, retails, and buys.
4. Evaluate licensed opportunities and enable new brands as needed – operating within all Disney Store's legal and compliance parameters.
5. Ensure establishment of the range plan and item set-up required to write purchase orders.

In Season

1. Provide updated sales reporting and business trends to members of the Disney Store team.
2. Present Best Seller and Hindsight Meeting reports. Analyse, recap and communicate business trends (quarterly hindsight), with the planning team.
3. Manage and ensure accuracy of the range plan assortment.
4. Track delivery of all category POs with the production team and the support of the Buying Administrator. Escalate shipment issues in a timely manner. Manage vendor set up as necessary.

Required Qualifications & Skills

1. Experience in an Assistant, Junior or Associate Buyer role within buying, merchandising, product development, and/or sourcing.
2. Experienced in managing and developing team members; delivering multiple assignments and deadlines through a team.
3. Demonstrates understanding of brand and brand portfolio positioning.
4. Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the connection between financial objectives and related merchandise objectives.
5. Experience building and maintaining strong relationships at all levels, managing your contacts effectively within a large, multi-national, matrix organisation.
6. Strong written and spoken English for business use, with excellent presentation skills.
7. Cultural sensitivity for working as part of our global Disney Store team.

The Perks

1. 25 days annual leave.
2. Private medical insurance & dental care.
3. Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free.
4. Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing.
5. Excellent parental and guardian leave.
6. Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Disney Store:

Disney store, which debuted in 1987, carries high-quality products, including exclusive product lines that support and promote Disney’s key entertainment initiatives and characters from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel. shopDisney.com is the ecommerce destination for guests of all ages, offering a curated selection of the best product from Disney store, Disney Consumer Products licensees, global collections and collaborations, and Disney Parks and Resorts, including trend fashion and accessories, toys, home and collectibles. Disney store and shopDisney offer magical shopping experiences that can only be delivered by Disney, one of the world’s largest and most successful entertainment companies.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family.

This position is with The Disney Store (UK) Ltd, which is part of a business we call Disney Store.

The Disney Store (UK) Ltd is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity.