Buyer - Beauty
Catch.com.au, Australia
Job Description
We are currently looking for an experienced Beauty Buyer (Haircare amp; Personal Hygiene) to join our Head Office in Bentleigh East. Reporting to the Category Manager, you'll be responsible for using a strategic, collaborative and relationship-based approach to grow and drive the success of the department.
As a Buyer, you'll play an essential role in sourcing, selecting, buying and selling. You'll execute great buying opportunities with suppliers that yield optimal commercial outcomes for the business and continue to build our brand as the number one destination. Catch Buyers don’t just innovate but disrupt traditional ways of working to deliver excitement and value to our customers, each day.
No two days are alike here at Catch but you could expect your typical day to include some of the following things:
- Strategically manage your category to maximise revenue and profit targets
- Work closely with the planning team to manage OTB, aged inventory, sales analysis and targets at brand level
- Manage range selection and order placement while building effective supplier relationships
- Set competitive, bold and data-driven pricing strategies
- Monitor industry trends and conducting competitor analysis
- Manage, mentor and develop team members.
- Owning performance targets/ metrics of team
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Beauty Buyer (Haircare amp; Personal Hygiene) in either an online or traditional retail environment
- Experience across multiple sub-categories and have an established network of contacts
- In-depth knowledge of consumer preferences and behaviours in the category
- Strong commercial focus with excellent numerical ability and analytical skills
- Passion lots of it! Unwavering enthusiasm and a can-do attitude
- Excellent communication skills
- Understanding and trust in data. Your decisions are creative and data-driven
- Collaboration. You work with your team to create awesome ideas and seek support when you need to
- Calm under pressure. You work to tight deadlines and remain calm and focused
Benefits
There has never been a more exciting time to join the Catch Team!!
Our people are at the heart of everything we stand for and will go above and beyond for our customers To be the trusted place where Australian’s start their shopping journey
We know that Drive and Passion are hard to generate when we are not feeling valued or having fun, so we make sure our Catchies are well looked after!
Working at Catch, you’ll experience;
- An organisation that is experiencing incredible growth
- Support and collaboration, not just with their immediate team, but with the broader organisation as well
- An organisation that can flex, and truly supports work life balance
- Volunteer Leave
- Community Care Programs Supporting 1 charity per calendar month
- Unbelievable employee benefits like Club Catch, Kmart discount card, discounted gym membership, free parking, free breakfast, free in-house learning and development, monthly lunches, parental leave programs plus loads more
Who are Catch?
Back in 2006, Catch set out to shake up Australia’s online retail landscape. We’ve come a long way since!
We are one of the country’s top eCommerce players, with a proven track record of growth and an award-winning digital platform. Behind the scenes, we’re a world-class team of creatives, strategists, developers, and innovators, and we’re on the hunt for like-minded people to jump on board.
We don’t play by the rules. We push boundaries. We think big. We stay curious and driven. Together, we embrace challenges and learn new things. All this, for one purpose: to provide our customers with an amazing online shopping experience, every day.
And we’re just getting started
At Catch, we welcome all applications and screen them without attention to race, age, beliefs, sex, orientation, gender identity and disability.