Senior Buyer - Cosmetics

One of the Leading Retail Groups in Middle East is looking out for a Senior Buyer - Cosmetics to be based Dubai, UAE with strong 10 years of buying experience with atleast 5-7 years of buying experience in Cosmetics.

As a Senior Buyer, you are responsible for managing the buying for within multiple high-growth departments for the Cosmetics Business. It's your job to oversee a team to effectively develop suites of products - determining competitive pricing that lives up to our brand promise and analyzing marketplace trends to identify new opportunities for the future and to transition if they are past their prime - ensuring business plans are a - win-win- for our customers and the company. Creativity and agility will be paramount as you identify retail trends and synthesize information and partnerships across multiple cross-functional touch points - providing forecasts and business solutions in a fast-paced, multi-dimensional environment.

You won't do this alone. You work within world-class team of collaborative colleagues and have access to industry-leading merchandising tools and technology to help you analyze and interpret customer, partner, market, business and financial insights at scale. Your job is to bring the - art- to the - science- using your intuition and expertise fueled by data, analytics and, above all, a passion for helping our customers save money and live better.

Position Description

- Develops and implements strategic direction for the Cosmetics Category.

- Drives sales and gross profit through the optimization of the product assortment.

- Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects for merchandising concepts

- Ensures business needs are being met

- Maximizes the return on inventory investment in partnership with the Merchandise Planning team, cross-functional partners, and suppliers

- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates

- Supports cross-channel and company initiatives to achieve global strategic multi-channel plans

Minimum Qualifications

- 10+ years of proven experience in merchandise, forecasting and product selection with at last 5 years in Cosmetics buying.

- Managerial experience developing Assoc. Buyers and Buyers and worked

- In addition, must have experience developing strong business relationships with vendors and industry leaders

- Must have experience managing and creating new categories of business in extremely competitive environment

- Must have experience with high risk, high volume, complex categories.

- Must have experience managing margin to meet category objectives

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

- Travel required roughly once per quarter

Additional Preferred Qualifications

- Proven history of managing complex projects to successful completion

- Experience developing, training and leading a team

- Passionate about retail

- Self-starter

- Willingness to learn and grow

- Ability to think outside of role