Senior Buyer | Cult Beauty

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.

Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.

From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG.

With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for?

We know that beauty isn’t one‑size‑fits‑all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands with a marketplace for over 1,300 third‑party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader.

Who is Cult Beauty? Well, we’re a beauty‑obsessed team who share a common goal — to become the most trusted beauty retailer in the world! We’re all about intelligent beauty, from the way we pick our ever‑lusted‑after brands to how we talk to our exceptionally savvy customers. Our Cult Community values transparency and so do we. That’s why we only sell the products that truly blow us away and publish every review on our site.

To achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with individuals who have the same vision. As part of the Cult Beauty team, you’ll be encouraged to share ideas and empowered to aim for the skies. We’re a team so if we fail, we fail together and try again. Cult Beauty has become the successful world leader it is because of our people.

We’re a close‑knit family that recognises that our collective and community are much more valuable than the sum of their parts. We’re not just here to sell the most unbelievably amazing beauty products in the world, we also want to challenge the definition of what ‘beauty’ is and use our platform to challenge the status‑quo — both in our industry and society.

The Senior Buyer is responsible for leading on the product strategy for their brands and categories whilst delivering continued sales & profit growth. They will building strength in relationships with each partner, ensuring that our customer a re at the heart of every decision made within the buying team.

• Collaborates with the Buying Director and other key stakeholders to plan, build and execute category strategies for sustainable growth and development of the business.
• Conducts strategy meetings with key accounts with plans to deliver. Supports management of the buying department, showcase leadership to deliver all key business objectives.
• Keeps up to date with industry/market trends and networking opportunities to help further build brand plans & relationships.
• Brand acquisition and developing new relationship, focusing on market specific opportunities in line with our internationalisation and growth plans. Developing & managing the Cult Beauty new brand strategy whilst leading the team to delivering this strategy.

• Leading and developing brand relationships in line with company values to build a best in market joint business plan and achieve business benefits including market leading promotions, first to market launches, exclusives and investment into promotional & marketing support to maximise performance. Leveraging existing brand relationships to grow new business opportunities with a view to raise Cult Beauty’s profile within the industry.
• Responsible for leading supplier negotiations to maximise margin/profit.
• Responsible for building, managing and delivering the buying budgets, providing a clear and structured rationale for how each budget is to be achieved given the agreed upon JBP and marketing exposure.…