Associate Buyer, Disney Store Fashion

Associate Buyer, Disney Store Fashion

工作概要:

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.

關於 Disney Store:

迪士尼商店於 1987 年開業，售賣包括獨家產品系列在內的優質產品，為迪士尼的主要娛樂提案及迪士尼、彼思、星球大戰及 Marvel 的人物作支援及宣傳。shopDisney.com 是適合所有年齡層顧客的電子商貿熱點，提供一系列分別來自迪士尼商店、迪士尼消費產品授權商、全球系列及合作計劃和迪士尼樂園及度假村的精選最佳產品，其中包括時尚服飾及配飾、玩具、家居及收藏品。迪士尼商店及 shopDisney 為客戶呈獻的魔幻購物體驗，只能在迪士尼這個世界一大成功娛樂公司中找到。迪士尼商店目前在北美有超過 240 間，在日本則有超過 40 間；中國上海有 2 間（包括 1 間旗艦店），另於丹麥、法國、德國、愛爾蘭、意大利、葡萄牙、西班牙及英國設有超過 70 間。

關於 The Walt Disney Company:

Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司，是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業，其業務主要涉及三個範疇：Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初，只是一間卡通工作室，至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚，並昂然堅守傳承，繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落，深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務，僱員及演藝人員攜手協力，創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。

這個職位隸屬於 The Disney Store (UK) Ltd , 其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Store 。

The Disney Store (UK) Ltd 是提供平等機會的僱主。考慮是否聘用求職者時，將不論其年齡、種族、膚色、宗教或信仰、性別、國籍、族裔或民族血統、性取向、變性、婚姻或同性伴侶狀況、殘疾或懷孕或生育狀況。Disney 培養商業文化，所有人的想法和決策都有助我們發展、創新、創造最好的故事，並與瞬息萬變的世界息息相關。