If you love beauty, you’re in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Role Overview

Working with the support of the Buyer / Senior Buyer, the objective of the Assistant Buyer is to strategically manage and report on the performance of the brand and product offer across Space NK stores and online for the allocated category. The Assistant Buyer is also responsible for brand new onboarding.

Key Accountabilities:

Manage commercial performance of portfolio of brands and products with focus on enhancing performance of customer offer on an ongoing basis

• Working with existing brands to identify new trends and review new products
• Plan and launch new products with a view of maximizing performance of new launches
• Manage performance of underperforming products and brands through communications internally and with brand partners
• Communicate range changes and discontinuations to brands with a reasonable notice period, with support from the Buyer / Senior Buyer
• Identify quick win commercial opportunities, presenting them to wider team for signoff

Build strong relationships with our brand partners

• Maintain regular contact with brands and conduct regular performance meetings
• Conduct Market Week planning meetings alongside the Buyer / Senior Buyer
• Develop long-term plans with new & existing brands alongside the Buyer / Senior Buyer

Work collaboratively with other departments through strong communications and planning

• Communicate key brand and product information with key departments across the business, such as Marketing, Merchandise Planning, Training, and E-Commerce
• Create & maintain joint brand and product marketing plans with other departments, such as Marketing, PR and Events. Support by the Buyer / Senior Buyer, partner with wider marketing team (content, SEO) to identify customer journey enhancements to drive category performance including content support or marketing support
• Support business improvement and commercial opportunities across departments
• Meet go to market deadlines required by other departments

Proactively trade Spacenk.com

• Analyze and optimize customer journey on all category-owned pages to maximize KPI performance, updating where necessary:
• Brand landing pages
• Category PDPs
• Category PLPs
• Identify and take action on areas of opportunity including assets, descriptions, navigation, product placements, and trading levers to support customer and sales
• Ensure product and brand launch performance is maximized across the site
• Partner with Marketing to identify offsite traffic opportunities

Accountable for the following KPIs

• Category & Brand sales: Overall, YOY, vs Budget

• Brand New Customer Targets: Overall, YOY, vs Budget
• Newness contribution to sales
• Exclusive product launches and contribution to sales
• Range productivity - sales/store, sales/SKU, sales to space productivity
• Stock position: by category and by brand including overstocks and discontinued inventory position
• Category Intake Margin vs Budget
• Incremental brand marketing spend vs Budget
• Online KPI’s for Category Owned Pages, YOY & vs Budget (Views, ATB, Conversion)

Skills and Experience Required:

• Previous experience at Assistant Buyer or Buyer’s Assistant level
• Passion for beauty industry, brands and products
• Proactive, entrepreneurial, self-starter who can identify opportunities and pursue them
• Strong people skills with a focus and drive to build strong relationships both internally and externally
• Strong commercial acumen and savvy; comfortable with numbers and analytics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point and Outlook)
• Willingness to learn and try new things and openness to change
• Actively seeks feedback from others in order to develop