Buyer

Job Purpose:

- Seasonal Buying from the International Range for all M&S India stores, our website and External Partners.

- Identifying sales opportunities & product gaps, addressing the same via product development in collaboration with the UK team or Sourcing team.

- Order tracking management for Import and domestic orders.

- Analysis of product performance at Range, Subrange, Trend and style Level.

Key Deliverables (Essential functions & Responsibilities of the Job):

• Support end-to-end product lifecycle management — from range planning to seasonal and top-up order closures for both international and domestic sourcing.
• Analyse sales performance and product sell-through; provide actionable feedback to the Buyer, Traders, and Merchandisers to influence future buying decisions.
• Lead margin negotiations with the Sourcing team for localised lines and manage fulfilment tracking across all season launches, including key marketing and window lines.
• Capture seasonal lessons learnt and translate them into clear, forward-looking action points for the next season.
• Monitor WGSN trends, runway insights, and competitor activity to provide timely and relevant trend feedback for range development.
• Conduct regular market visits for product gap identification and competition analysis; ensure two-way communication with SCM and Sourcing for order tracking across import and domestic lines.
• Partner with cross-functional teams — Retail, Ecommerce, Marketing, and VM — to drive product performance across Business Units and categories; maintain data hygiene across central product documents.

· Good understanding of trend analysis and range development