Are you a customer-centric retail buyer, with a proven track record in category management in branded fashion?
Can you utilise excellent commercial judgement to define and deliver a clear strategy to drive performance?
Do you thrive in a fast paced environment, using your exceptional interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships with vendors, cruise lines and cross-functional teams?
If so, the Category Manager role here at Harding could be the perfect challenge for you.
About the role:
Reporting to our Category Director in our Lifestyle team, you'll be accountable for daily trading and driving category performance across Clothing, Accessories and Costume Jewellery. You'll define a mid-long term strategy, identifying the key pillars of growth and the path to achieve revenue and profitability targets across our US, UK, and Australian cruise line partners.
You'll work closely with merchandising and retail operations as well as your own buying team of 6 to ensure the vendor portfolio meet sales, margin, and profit KPI's. You'll be highly customer centric and an industry expert with established vendor relationships, deep product knowledge and a strong point of view on market trends and regional nuances.
This is a great opportunity for a Senior Buyer or Category Manager to join a market leading and growing retailer, with the opportunity to define and execute your mid-long term st...