Buyer

Role overview

Range planning and buying

• Develop seasonal buying plans and balanced collections across core essentials, mainline, activewear, and seasonal fashion.
• Translate creative direction into viable collections and establish product architecture across silhouettes, fabrics, colors, branding, and price points.
• Own seasonal buying from range selection and option planning through quantity recommendations, order placement, and delivery.
• Set pricing and manage product costing, markups, intake margins, sales, sell-through, stock, and commercial targets.
• Monitor in-season performance and act on demand changes, stock risks, markdown exposure, and sales or margin opportunities.

Product development and operations

• Work with product development and sourcing teams to meet standards for quality, fit, fabric, finish, value, target cost, and timelines.
• Review supplier costing, minimum order quantities, lead times, and production capabilities; identify and resolve product, quality, production, and delivery risks.
• Manage the buying critical path, tracking development, sampling, costing, approvals, purchase orders, and deliveries.
• Maintain accurate product data, buying records, purchase orders, and range information; escalate delays, cost variances, and delivery risks.

Reporting and collaboration

• Produce buying and product performance updates covering sales trends, margins, stock exposure, and opportunities.
• Use data, reporting tools, and emerging technologies to improve forecasting, product selection, range efficiency, and decisions.
• Collaborate across design, merchandising, product development, sourcing, supply chain, marketing, e-commerce, wholesale, and other teams.
• Support scalable buying processes, special projects, collaborations, and business opportunities across BALR. and the wider portfolio.

Experience and capabilities

• Proven buying experience in fashion, sportswear, premium apparel, or lifestyle brands and understanding of the end-to-end buying process.
• Commercial and analytical ability to turn sales data, customer insights, and trends into range plans, pricing strategies, and buying decisions.
• Knowledge of fashion and sportswear trends, range architecture, option planning, product lifecycle, range productivity, costing, pricing, margins, stock, and markdown control.
• Understanding of garment manufacturing, fabric and trim development, supplier capabilities, minimum order quantities, lead times, and production critical paths.
• Experience working directly with sourcing teams and overseas suppliers is highly advantageous.
• Strong collaboration, communication, negotiation, planning, organization, and attention to detail; able to manage priorities and deadlines.
• Interest in AI, digital tools, and data-driven processes; comfortable working across global teams, markets, and suppliers.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave, increasing to 30 days after the first year.
• 30% employee discount across SUMWON STUDIOS brands.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities and company social events.
• Opportunity to contribute to a growing multi-brand platform and work with a high-performing team.