E-Commerce Beauty Buyer (Cosmetics)

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Company

hirify.global is an online retailer focused on e-commerce across Africa.

What you will do

• Own the cosmetics category strategy and performance across GMV, sales growth, gross profit, margin, and market share.
• Trade the category daily using traffic, conversion, search demand, availability, pricing, and promotional data.
• Build and optimize a customer-led assortment, including SKU productivity, stock availability, price architecture, and inventory efficiency.
• Identify and secure local, international, social-first, and emerging beauty brands, including online exclusives and first-to-market launches.
• Lead supplier negotiations covering cost, margin, rebates, marketing investment, exclusivity, payment terms, and promotional funding.
• Improve online discovery and conversion through product content, search, navigation, customer insight, campaigns, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• 4–7+ years of experience in e-commerce buying, category management, digital trading, or commercial retail.
• Beauty or cosmetics experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience owning meaningful GMV, sales, and profitability targets.
• Strong understanding of e-commerce metrics, including conversion, traffic, AOV, availability, and promotional performance.
• Excellent commercial negotiation, analytical, Excel, and data skills.
• Experience managing large SKU assortments and making fast, data-driven commercial decisions is advantageous.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, dynamic, customer-centric, and execution-focused working environment.
• Team-based culture with direct feedback and openness to new ideas.
• Employees are expected to take ownership, work hard, and focus on practical solutions.
• Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging applications from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities.