Junior Buyer (12 months maternity cover)
Love footwear and fashion? Join us as a Junior Buyer and work with Design and Merchandising to create timeless, sustainable ranges that balance creativity, commercial success and customer appeal.
We’re looking for a Junior Buyer to join our Product Team and help shape future collections that reflect the heart of our brand. We believe great products empower people to live life in comfort and style. Our purpose is simple but powerful: to create exquisite, timeless and sustainable footwear and accessories that our customers truly fall in love with — pieces designed to go anywhere and do anything.
About the Product Team
Our Product Team sits at the centre of everything we do. By bringing together design, buying and merchandising, we create ranges that balance customer desire, commercial performance and availability. The result? Beautiful products that sell well, arrive on time, and support profitable growth.
The Role
As Junior Buyer, you’ll work closely with Design and Merchandising to help create a commercial seasonal range that’s true to our brand ethos and distinctive handwriting. This is a hands-on role where you’ll gain exposure to the full buying cycle — from concept to customer.
You’ll play a key role in:
Assisting with product selection and range development
Supporting supplier relationships and day-to-day supplier communication
Managing elements of the critical path to ensure products are delivered on time
Assisting with pricing, margin management and cost negotiations
Working collaboratively across teams to ensure ranges are both inspiring and commercially viable
This is full time position offered on a 12 month fixed term basis to start in April.
About You
You’re passionate about product, curious about trends, and excited by the idea of building ranges customers can’t resist. You’re organised, commercially aware, and ready to learn.
You must have:
Previous experience within a buying role - ideally at least 2-3 years
An interest in footwear and accessories
Strong organisational and communication skills
A commercial mindset with great attention to detail
Fluency in Spanish - this is essential in order to communicate with our small family-run factories
Ideally, you’ll also have:
Experience within footwear and accessory buying
Experience using Zedonk
The confidence to work cross-functionally and build relationships
A proactive, can-do attitude and eagerness to develop your buying career
Why Join Us?
Be part of an established well respected brand with a clear purpose and strong values
Learn from experienced designers and merchandisers
Play a real role in shaping beautiful, sustainable product ranges
Grow your career in a collaborative, supportive environment
If you love footwear, thrive on detail, and want to help create collections that inspire customers to go anywhere and do anything, we’d love to hear from you.
No agencies please
Please note we will not be able to shortlist applicants requiring visa sponsorship.
- Department
- Product - Design, Production & Merchandising
- Locations
- Studio Head Office
Colleagues
Studio Head Office
Our Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 33 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 33 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays).
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👢 Generous product allowance
We want our team to walk in PC and be advocates of the brand so each team member gets between 2-4 pairs of PC boots and/or shoes per year!
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💓 Life assurance
Offering our employees peace of mind that their named beneficiary will receive 4x the employee’s annual salary should the unthinkable happen.
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👩🏻⚕️ Healthcare cash plan
Helping our employees to cover various healthcare costs such as routine dental and optical care, prescriptions, complementary and alternative therapies; as well as help with getting specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, counseling and health screening etc.
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💰 Pension
Helping our employees plan for the future, we offer a 5% employer contribution as part of our auto enrol pension scheme.
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🛍️ Salary Extras
Providing our team with a little extra help to make their salaries go further - Salary Xtras is a web portal offering discounted shopping, holidays, cinema & gym membership etc; cycle2work scheme; travel loans to spread the cost of commuting and an employee assistance service for unlimited access to specialist support e.g. legal and financial advice.
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🕺 Regular social & team events
We try to get together regularly to celebrate our successes as a team.
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🕐 Flexible working hours
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we try to be flexible with working hours where possible and many roles operate on a remote or hybrid basis - whatever works best for the individual, team and the company.
Workplace Culture
We encourage every employee to understand the importance of their contribution to the overall success of the business. Everyone has a role to play and we encourage regular performance reviews to help people to reach their full potential.
We all take responsibility for meeting the requirements of our individual and team roles and we don’t shy away from going above and beyond the call of duty when a situation warrants it, or when our colleagues need our help.
We acknowledge and respect that we are all different. We aim to build strong personal relationships and we value the different skills and attributes that make up a diverse and effective team.
We are all passionate about the areas in which we work and strive to be the best we can be in our individual fields. But that doesn’t come at the cost of stepping on each other to get there.
We care about the company and we care about each other and we believe in maintaining a creative, informal, friendly and engaging working environment.
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