Job roles are available in either the UK or Guernsey, subject to employment permit status. Job Summary: The Junior Buyer is responsible for supporting the purchasing process by selecting, sourcing, and managing products for the e-commerce platform. This position requires a keen eye for market trends, strong organizational skills, and the ability to analyze sales data to ensure product availability, competitive pricing, and effective inventory management. The Junior Buyer works closely with the Buying team, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to ensure that product offerings meet customer demands and contribute to business growth. Key Responsibilities: Product Strategy: Full ownership of a developing category within beauty and fragrance. Utilise industry and market knowledge to source new and emerging viral brands and highlight any trending products that are “hot” in the market and feedback to the marketing teams to support online execution and product placement on site. Support the Buying team in the sourcing and collation of beauty boxes and Christmas advent calendar. Highlight competitor and marketing innovations used by competitors to up-weigh AOV, sales and margins and feedback to the Brand and Marketing teams. Proactively support in the range build process and identify any missed opportunities within the current portfolio of brands and products ie: subcategories, trending products and new to market innovations. Liaise with suppliers to ensure NLFs are submitted 10 weeks ahead of launch. Send all NLF’s to Stock Management for set up and record all DBID in the NLF range builder. Liaise with the Brand team to on PO placement and critical path. Place POs for NPD (from a forecasts provided by Buyers) and ensure deliveries are receipted as agreed 2 weeks before launch. Report on performance and feedback to the brand team with a clear action plan that supports trade i.e.: repeat buys or placement on site. Reporting/Trade: Collate and analyze weekly sales reports. Share with team key initiatives to impact key KPIs based on market conditions and competitor activity. Collate intake trackers to ensure agreed supplier forecasts are met and rebates are unlocked. Highlight any risks and negotiate with the brands on variances. Weekly comp shops reporting on key trending product, new brands to market and competitor activity. Proactively suggest and negotiate promotions/trade activities that bolster sales and profit and execute with the marketing teams. Stock & Supply Chain Management: Responsible for raising and sending all POs to strategic authorised partners. Working with the Buying, Inventory and Finance teams to align with cash flow and OTB requirements on a weekly basis. Embedding Slimstock forecasting tool into the category and feedback with any enhancements to support the business. Identify potential stock issues by analyzing sales and cover reports and making corrective actions to negate out of stocks in the range. Investigate lines on strategic brands that have not incurred sales for 2/3 weeks and deliver actions to drive demand. Action and monitor aged stock position on strategic brands to optimise stock health. Suppliers Relationships: Ownership of several mid-tier brands from range building to onsite execution. Run bi-weekly/4 weekly meetings for mid-tier brands. Support Senior Buyer in strategic relationships attending strategy meetings in London. Negotiate TPR cost prices with key brands to drive demand and profit using market knowledge, historical data and projected sales forecasts. Create annual forecasts for all authorized brands based on historical data, current performance and alignment to sales budgets. Pricing Strategy: Benchmark competitor pricing weekly on strategic brands and adjust according to market conditions and alignment to KPIs. NPD critical path management. Rebates/Price Credits: Negotiate based on trade performance and market knowledge supplier funded promos. Load into the internal system the prices in line with agreed terms and dates from the brands. Submit evidence to brands after the events and instruct finance to raise payments. VALUES: Fun, Empowerment, Adaptability, Teamwork and Maximo’s Employee Leadership Behaviours. Fun: A fun workplace makes for a relaxed and supportive working environment. It's important not to take ourselves too seriously and maintain perspective (balance). Empowerment: Enabling employees to take ownership of their work and contribute to meaningful decision making. At its core it’s about trusting employees to do the right thing for the business based on data driven results. Adaptability: The willingness to change your behaviour or how we do things as needed to adjust to, and remain flexible in, a changing environment. It's about having a growth mindset, continually challenge yourself, processes and assumptions. Teamwork: Collaborative effort of two or more people for a common purpose. It's about setting aside personal agendas for the good of the team, practising open communication, trust and constructive criticism, whilst being kind and respectful to one another.