Buyer

Licensed sponsor Manchester Full-time Posted 1 hour ago

🚀 We’re Hiring: Buyer

📍 Location: Onsite, Worsley

🕒 Full-time Full time, OFFICE BASED| Competitive Salary + Perks

The Company

Online Home Shop (OHS) are one of the fastest growing online home retailers in the North-West. We aim to offer on-trend products for home and life, for a price that suits all budgets. OHS have everything from the latest bedding styles, soft towels, throws, curtains, rugs and best-selling hoodie blankets.

The Role

As a Buyer, you will be responsible for building and trading commercially successful product ranges that meet customer needs while delivering sales and margin targets. You will manage the product lifecycle from initial concept through sourcing, supplier negotiations, range development, and launch, ensuring products are brought to market on time and perform successfully across all sales channels.

🛍️ What You’ll Be Doing:

Range building and product development

Build commercial, customer-right ranges, balancing core, seasonal and newness within the agreed range architecture.
Follow the product development process from initial concept through to launch, working with Design and the Senior Buyer at each stage.
Oversee and sign off the sample process, red seals and gold seals.
Keep up to date with new homeware trends, on-trend colours & designs and translate these into fresh, relevant and commercially viable products & product ranges suited to our customer.
Review quality and specification at sample stage, raising concerns before bulk is committed.

Commercial and financial

Deliver agreed sales, intake margin and achieved margin targets for the category.
Negotiate cost prices, payment terms, minimum order quantities and lead times to protect and grow margin.
Analyse sales at category, option and SKU level, identifying best and worst sellers and acting on repeats, extensions, promotion or exit.
Contribute to promotional and markdown planning, balancing volume against margin impact.
Prepare and present range reviews, trade updates and post-season analysis.

Supplier management and supply chain

Manage the critical path for the category with support of the Assistant buyer & Senior Buyer - tracking key dates from design brief to launch and escalating slippage early.
Liaise with Far East factories and agents to ensure production runs to schedule and to agreed quality standards.
Build strong supplier relationships, developing existing partners and identifying new sourcing opportunities.
Work with Supply Chain on shipping, lead times and intake, resolving delays where necessary.

Customer, market and multichannel trading

Maintain an in-depth understanding of our target customer, our competitors and the value home market.
Carry out ongoing competitor analysis, including SWOT reviews and pricing and range comparisons.
Work with Ecommerce to ensure product is set up accurately and presented well online, including imagery, content and onsite visibility.
Support our marketplace and social commerce channels, ensuring the category is ranged appropriately for each platform.
Brief and supply product for photography, campaign and influencer activity.

💡 What You’ll Bring

Demonstrable experience in a Buying role gained within an online or multichannel retailer. Typically gained across several years at Junior or Buyer level.
Buying experience within Home, Seasonal or a comparable fast paced & large category.
Experience of managing a critical path and delivering ranges to deadline.
Experience of negotiating directly with suppliers on price and terms.
Experience of the sample and approval process through to bulk production.
Strong commercial awareness and confident analysis of sales and margin data.
Strong organisational skills, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Clear written and verbal communication, including presenting a range to an audience.
Competent IT skills, including a good working level of Excel.

Desirable

Experience of overseas sourcing and factory visits.
Experience of growing a product area independently from a standing start.
Wide market awareness across value home retailers.

Why Join Us?

Fast-moving collaborative company culture
Regular company social events
25 days holiday
Company pension
Employee discount
Free flu jabs
On-site parking
Gift box and early finish on your birthday
Free electric car charging points

👀 Sound Like You?

At OHS, you won’t just join a team — you’ll be part of a fast-moving retail success story. If you’re ambitious, collaborative, and excited by scale, apply today and help shape the future of home shopping in the UK.

📩 Apply now!

Note for Recruiters: We do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any CV's submitted without a signed agreement in place will be considered our property, and we will not be liable for any fees should we choose to engage the candidate. We operate a preferred supplier list (PSL) and will only accept submissions from agencies on that list who have been instructed to work on the role.