Senior Buyer

The Senior Buyer is responsible for ensuring the club's product ranges are commercially balanced, strategically invested and aligned to business objectives. Working closely with both the Product and Merchandising functions, the role evaluates opportunities across Nike and mono-brand categories, supports range sign-off, manages buy budgets and ensures investment is directed towards the most commercially attractive categories, collections and launches. The role acts as the commercial bridge between product creation and merchandising execution.

• Review the commerciality of proposed Nike and mono-brand ranges and assortments each season.
• Assess category opportunities based on sales performance, customer demand and market trends, in conjunction with the Product team.
• Support range sign-off decisions alongside Product and Merchandising, ensuring ranges are commercially balanced across key categories, customer segments and price points in accordance with the product pyramid.
• Identify opportunities for category expansion and commercial growth.
• Develop seasonal buy plans aligned to sales and margin objectives, and recommend budget allocation by category, collection and launch.
• Identify priority areas for investment based on strategic goals and historical performance, and support business decisions around new categories and retail growth opportunities.
• Manage seasonal buy budgets and commitment plans, monitoring commitments against approved budgets and ensuring category investment remains aligned to agreed financial targets.
• Conduct post-launch and post-season performance reviews, evaluate the effectiveness of category investment decisions and use sales analysis to provide recommendations for future range and investment planning.
• Work closely with the Product team throughout the range planning process and partner with the Merchandise team to align category investment plans with inventory and trading strategies.
• Support key launches, major campaigns and strategic retail initiatives, acting as a key stakeholder during seasonal sign-off and investment reviews.

• Significant buying experience within a multi-category retail, sports, fashion, lifestyle or licensed merchandise environment, with the most recent role held at senior level.
• Proven ownership of seasonal buy plans, open-to-buy budgets and category investment decisions.
• Strong understanding of assortment architecture, product pyramids and range planning.
• Experience assessing ranges across customer segments, price points and retail channels.
• Strong commercial analytical capability across sales, margin, sell-through, stock and customer-demand data.
• Demonstrable experience conducting post-launch and post-season reviews and translating insights into future range decisions.
• Track record of identifying and delivering category growth opportunities.
• Experience supporting new product propositions, launches or retail expansion.
• Strong collaborative experience across Buying, Product Development, Merchandising, Retail and Marketing.
• Confidence presenting commercial recommendations and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Commitment to embodying the club's BLUE behaviours (Brave, Lead, Unity, Edge) in the approach to work and interaction with others.
• Adherence to the club's policies and procedures, including Health & Safety, Financial Authorisation, Confidentiality and GDPR.
• Commitment to acting as an ambassador for diversity, equality and inclusion, treating others fairly in line with the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy and reporting any acts of discrimination through appropriate channels.
• Commitment to creating a safe environment and protecting all young people and vulnerable adults in the role holder's care or attending club premises, reporting any concerns to the Safeguarding Lead.
• Willingness to report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the HR Department.