**About us**

Well known for being the place to go for leading brands and labels, Ballantynes has a long association in the Canterbury region as a retailer of quality products and exceptional service.

At Ballantynes we are all about delivering exceptional customer service. Our people are essential to our goal of providing a warm and welcoming environment for customers and staff.

**About the role**

As the Buyer for Lingerie and Childrenswear you will be accountable for providing a complete Lingerie and Childrenswear offering for our customers.

You will develop and implement the Lingerie and Childrenswear brand strategy successfully across Christchurch and Timaru stores; achieving budgeted sales, planned stocks and productivity KPI’s.

Being a Buyer at Ballantynes is a varied and exciting role. You will be responsible for:

- Managing the procurement of merchandise for your area, sourcing the latest exclusive stock, ensuring orders match anticipated demand.
- Engage proactively with key suppliers, managing the relationship and building mutually beneficial strategies to grow sales.
- Developing and implementing promotional plans to maximize overall category and department sales.
- Successfully managing sales and stock levels against budgets.
- Leading and supporting the Purchasing Administrator to enable delivery of the buying strategy and budgets.
- To actively research the market, identifying and securing new sources of supply that will positively contribute to the business results and that are most relevant to the customer.
- Remain up to speed with the latest trends and be all over what our customer wants.
- Actively participating in our events and magazines.

Being a successful buyer is a balance of art and science and requires trend awareness and analytical ability, negotiating skills and the drive to succeed.

We are seeking applicants with the following:

- Buying experience.
- Proven commercial acumen.
- Ability to interpret and analyse data, and use forecasting tools to aid decision making, competent Excel user.
- A customer driven focus.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong planning and time management skills.
- Great communication, confident with presenting and negotiating.
- Experience motivating and developing a team.
- Full driver’s license is required. There will be the requirement for travel in this role.

You will work hard and need to be goal focused. In return you get to work in a great team in a unique environment, enjoy our staff discount and have the opportunity to travel domestically and internationally.