The Opportunity
QVC Group is looking for a talented Senior Buyer to drive our growing world of Garden, Outdoor Living, Furniture, and Storage/Organization. This role will oversee both QVC & HSN networks. As a Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for assembling seasonally appropriate merchandise assortments and identifying and developing key promotional business drivers. You'll build the business by identifying and executing strategies while collaborating with internal teams to maximize sales. This role is pivotal in translating strategies into compelling and achievable goals. You will work closely with the DMM and GMM and will be a lead influence within our private brand strategy as well as work with leading national brands in this space.
Our Team
The Senior Buyer for Garden, Outdoor Living, Furniture, and Storage/Organization at QVC & HSN is one of the most influential buyer roles we're hiring for. In this position, you will have the opportunity to manage vendor relationships with large national brands, leading a team that inspires the discovery of new national brands and emerging entrepreneur businesses. You'll search for white space that engages and attracts our consumer, fostering an inspiring leadership environment dedicated to driving our team forward and adhering to our amazing principles.
Your Impact
- Develop and execute omni-channel buying office strategies, manage day-to-day office functions, and support product development.
- Select and buy products, developing and executing product concepts, shows, brands, and ideas that align with business goals and Buying KPIs.
- Develop and nurture talent within Buying Teams centered around key differentiators (i.e., Assistant Buyer, Buyer I roles).
- Formulate and deliver multi-platform short and mid-range business plans that meet or exceed financial goals.
- Create multi-platform plans to drive sales, productivity, adjusted gross margin, TSV/TS achievement rates, and inventory plans, identifying growth areas while managing risks.
- Drive the buying strategy for both direct teams and cross-functional teams.
- Seek and analyze data from various sources to inform decision-making and align others with the buying strategy.
- Champion innovation, developing an entrepreneurial and creative approach to fostering new ideas that deliver results, accelerate product discovery, and explore emerging categories and product adjacencies.
- Develop high-performing teams guided by our principals.
- Inspire talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance. Cultivate skills and knowledge needed for high performance.
What You Bring
- You have extensive experience in leadership, managing, inspiring, and empowering teams.
- Commitment to team development, motivation, and professional growth.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a Retail Buying role or equivalent, with at least 3 years as a buyer.
- Proven ability to operate independently with limited supervision, exercising sound judgment.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with networks across the organization.
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If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate a company committed to inclusion and belonging for all, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with QVC Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!
For QVC Group, our commitment to inclusion and belonging for all is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.
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What We Do
Curated Experiences. Infinite Possibilities.®
We believe in a Third Way to Shop® – beyond transactional ecommerce or traditional brick-and-mortar stores – for customers who crave engaging shopping experiences.
We're a select group of diverse businesses that provide customers with curated collections of unique products, made personal and relevant by the power of storytelling. We combine the best of retail, media, and social to curate experiences, conversations, and communities for millions of highly discerning shoppers. We bring joy, inspiration, and humanity to shopping. We also curate large audiences, across our many platforms, for our thousands of brand vendors.
Qurate Retail Group comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill®, and Grandin Road®. We reach approximately 218 million homes worldwide via 14 television networks and reach millions more via multiple streaming services, social pages, mobile apps, websites, print catalogs, and in-store destinations.
We're a world leader in video commerce globally, among the top ecommerce retailers in North America (according to Digital Commerce 360), and a leader in mobile commerce and social commerce.
