Buyer
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Buyer to join our Fine Watches team here at Harrods. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and manage our luxury watch portfolio, driving the brand and product proposition across all channels—store, online, and airports.
If you have a passion for luxury timepieces, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to foster key relationships, this role is for you.
About the Role
Working closely with the Buying Manager, Merchandising and Retail teams you will ensure all decisions are commercially sound, drive trade and ensure an optimum customer experience.
Your duties will also include:
- Planning and selecting product according to customer demand, trends, budget, and divisional strategy across channels and locations.
- Working closely with the concession partner to ensure the product offer is aligned to Harrods’ strategy and wherever possible exclusive product is included in the range.
- Planning pop-ups and soft-shop concepts for brands.
- Supporting the Buying Manager negotiations and plan vendor shop fits, taking into consideration brand adjacencies and sales densities.
- Working with TSD on design, merchandise capacity and installation timings.
- Attending buying appointments to select product and quantify orders using sales and sell through analysis.
- Preparing and reviewing agendas and materials ahead of brand meetings, ensuring airport and online data is also referenced.
About You
You will have expert knowledge of the Buying Cycle as well as the needs of the Fine Watches Category. You will also have a good understanding of a corporate business, our customer profiles and strategic development. You will be commercially aware, able to demonstrate when you have driven trade across your current department and have impeccable relationship building skills.
You will also:
- Have a Proven track record in fine watch buying within the luxury sector.
- Be able to demonstrate effective leadership, able to inspire, nurture and develop a high performing team.
- Be happy to travel frequently to Buying appointments, trade fairs, TVDC and vendor meetings.
- Have a creative, solution based approach.
- Be PC Literate (Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and SAP)
About Us
Harrods is one of the world’s leading luxury department stores and we’re becoming a destination for top designers, and the most sought-after brands from around the globe. Our combined mission is to make visiting our iconic Knightsbridge store one of the world’s most inspiring shopping experiences.
Our Promise to You
Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business.
Uniquely You
Whilst our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you can demonstrate the majority of skills and strong experience to thrive in this role, we would encourage you to apply.
At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.
If you want to know more about life at Harrods, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods.
Additional Information:
Time Type:
Permanent
Department:
FW Buying (Tabatha Emery-Wookey)
Top Skills
What We Do
As many lives, generations, cultures and stories pass through our doors, our mission remains unchanged: to serve the needs and aspirations of our customers, to create new stories and bring moments of delight. Whomever they are and wherever they come from, our customers can always expect to be treated with grace, courtesy, and care. #TogetherHarrods
Open since 1834 by Charles Henry Harrod and now owned by Qatar Holding Authority, we are truly unique - a house of maisons, a modern atelier, a workshop of wonders, a convener, patron and celebrator of the world’s finest. Known around the world as one of the great luxury emporiums, we offer a transformative experience to customers who know that true value of exceptional goods and services lies beyond price. We are committed to excellence and artistry, inspired to reinvent and surprise, ensuring our position as a leader in the category.
Our people are our strength - their unique personalities and their desire to exceed expectations are what enables us to make the impossible possible for our customers.
Our customers are at the heart of our success. They’re the reason we exist, and we never forget it. And we’re always looking for new exceptional people who want to connect to them, to delight them and to become part of our story
