Chapter Member

**Company Description**
Are you passionate about lingerie and intimate apparel? Do you have an eye for quality, style, and comfort? We're on the lookout for a Buyer with Underwear Experience to join our dynamic team

The Warehouse Group (TWG) is a New Zealand success story, evolving from a single The Warehouse store to become one of the largest multi-brand retailing groups in New Zealand. As a company, we’re continuing our innovative and progressive journey - with bold new ways of moving forward, empowering teams and with more effective collaboration and communication, we have our customers top of mind and work purposefully together, “Helping Kiwis live better every day”.

This role is in support of The Warehouse Groups (TWG) vision**:“TO MAKE SUSTAINABLE LIVING EASY AND AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE”. **What drives and motivates you?

We believe that everybody deserves to feel confident and comfortable in their own skin. As a Buyer with Underwear Experience, you'll play a pivotal role in curating our collection of lingerie and underwear, ensuring that we offer our customers the best in terms of design, fit, and fabric. To be successful in this position, you’re someone who understands how to create a compelling range using a mix of data and creativity - you back your range decisions with facts and strong shopper and customer insights and work collaboratively to bring this to life.

This role is critical to our success and your key responsibilities are complex and exciting You will have the opportunity to truly make and influence decisions that create value for our customers and drive commercial results.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Embracing the latest trends and styles with a creative flair. Your fashion-focused lens will be pivotal in curating collections that resonate with our diverse customer base.
- Commercial planning and delivery of activations for new products
- Deep-diving into sales data, analysing trends, and drawing actionable insights. Regularly reporting findings to stakeholders, providing valuable information that shapes our business strategies.
- Thriving in a cross-functional environment where teamwork is the key to success. Working seamlessly with various departments, from design to marketing, ensuring a cohesive and compelling product offering.
- Work closely with sourcing and suppliers to meet our customers’ needs

**Qualifications**
Highly commercial, insightful and decisive in your thinking, you are passionate about your craft and have an innate curiosity for ‘how we can do better’ to provide the best products for our customers.

Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills will be essentials to unlock collaboration, productivity and speed to market - this is key to our agile way of working Your drive to contribute whilst taking ownership means you work effectively, both independently and collaboratively to deliver your best work and commercial results for the business.

To be successful for this role you will have:

- Solid **category management** experience within retail
- Experience **developing branded and** **own brand** categories
- Experince with **construction and fit in Women's Underwear**:

- Strong **commercial acumen, negotiation and analytical skills**:

- A **customer driven** focus.
- The **ability to trade** utilising promotional activity and advertising to maximum effect
- ** Collaborative working style **and excellent** communicator** with strong **stakeholder management** skills
- ** Decisiveness** in a fast-moving environment as well as a **resilient** and **driven** nature
- Strong proven negotiation skills
- The ability to build long term sustainable partnerships

**Additional Information**
We offer a dynamic, flexible and supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals.

We also offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include flexible working arrangements, team member discounts, wellbeing support, leave benefits and more

**MAKE SUSTAINABLE LIVING EASY AND AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE** don’t hesitate. APPLY