Fashion Buyer

Make Your Mark on Style: Fashion Buyer Opportunity!

Do you have an eye for the next big trend and a passion for bringing beautiful and desirable collections to life? Are you a strategic thinker with a knack for negotiation and a deep understanding of the fashion landscape? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a talented Fashion Buyer

You will be at the forefront of product selection, responsible for curating and sourcing high-quality and commercially successful apparel. In this business-critical role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping brand identity and ensuring customers have access to the latest and most sought-after styles.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build and maintain the seasonal product calendar, ensuring balance between creative flow and commercial structure.
• Manage cross-functional teams across procurement and product buying.
• Develop a deep understanding of brand values and design philosophy that resonates with customers.
• Define product and style architecture, ensuring alignment with design, production and sales targets.
• Lead end-of-quarter analysis, collection post-mortems, and pre-season planning to feed future decisions.
• Conduct ongoing stock and sales performance analysis: sell-through, margin, size curves, colour performance, lifecycle.
• Forecast product demand, monitor performance by SKU, and identify patterns in customer preferences.
• Use data to guide design briefs-ensuring each drop meets style, category, and performance targets.
• Own competitor benchmarking, shopping trips (virtual and in-person), and market trend reports.
• Monitor ecommerce product feedback and collaborate with Customer Service to identify recurring customer needs.

What you’ll bring:

• Minimum 3+ years in a Buying, Merchandising, or Product Planning role (fashion or lifestyle experience)
• Lead and mentor the Procurement team responsible for product buying
• Strong analytical capability with experience managing budgets, inventory plans and sales reports.
• Confident using Numbers, Excel or BI tools for forecasting and margin analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across design, marketing, and operations
• Knowledge of or strong interest in ethical sourcing and sustainable production practices.
• Understanding of ecommerce and international DTC sales cycles is advantageous.

What’s on offer:

• A dynamic and creative work environment where your passion for fashion can thrive.
• The opportunity to shape our product offering and make a significant impact on our brand.
• A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth within the company.

Ready to Shape the Future of Our Fashion Collections?

If you are a driven and trend-savvy Fashion Buyer looking for an exciting new challenge, we encourage you to apply!

Acknowledgement of Country

Salt respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia as the continuing custodians of country and culture. We recognise the enduring connection that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the lands, waters, and skies.

We pay our respects to all First Nations Australians and their Elders past and present.

We’re proud to have won the Best Mid-Sized Recruitment Company to Work For at the 2023 TIARA Recruitment Awards, and to have been finalists, for the second year in a row, in the Client Service and Recruitment Leader of the Year categories! At Salt, our mission is Creating Futures by putting our clients, candidates, partners, and team members at the heart of everything we do. We extend our sincere appreciation to everyone who has contributed to our continued success.

Salt acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia as the continuing custodians of country and culture. We pay our respects to all First Nations Australians and their Elders past and present.