Junior Buyer (Retail)

Location: The Engine Room, London; hybrid working

Company

hirify.global is a UK premium furniture and homeware brand founded in 2008, operating 11 stores and developing sofas, beds, and homewares.

What you will do

• Support the Category Lead with range strategy, product roadmaps, and range plans.
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of products in assigned categories from concept through launch.
• Maintain critical paths, launch schedules, price architecture, margin targets, and product quality standards.
• Prepare commercial analysis for negotiations on cost prices, minimum order quantities, and lead times.
• Build supplier relationships and coordinate with Demand Planning, Supplier Management, Product Tech, Marketing, and Web teams.
• Review forecasts, stock performance, sales data, customer feedback, and competitor activity to recommend trading actions.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in a Buyer’s Assistant, Assistant Buyer, or Junior Buyer role in retail.
• Experience developing products to a critical path from concept to launch.
• Ability to download and analyse data to support commercial category decisions.
• Understanding of sales and margin targets and how to influence performance against them.
• Strong commercial judgement, organisation, prioritisation, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with 37.5 contracted hours per week.
• 25 days of holiday, increasing by one day annually for three years, plus eight bank holidays.
• Enhanced family leave, healthcare cash plan, Employee Assistance Programme, and life assurance worth four times annual salary.
• Staff and friends-and-family discounts, shopping discounts, cycle-to-work scheme, and half a day for Christmas shopping.
• Inclusive, collaborative, customer-focused working environment.