Junior Buyer - Sportswear

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Range & Trading: Deliver a commercial, customer-relevant range and use performance insights to maximise sales, margin and stock.
• Critical Path & Operations: Manage the buying critical path, product data and administration to ensure accurate, timely launches.
• Partners & Collaboration: Build strong brand and supplier relationships and align cross-functional teams behind commercial objectives.
• Customer & Market Insight: Turn customer, competitor, trend and performance data into range and category decisions.
• Continuous Improvement & Team: Improve buying processes and support Buying Admin Assistants within an inclusive, high-performing team.
  

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Strong commercial judgement and analytical skills to maximise sales, margin and stock.

• Experience building and trading customer-relevant, multi-brand Sportswear ranges.

• Strong Sportswear market knowledge, including brands, trends and performance dynamics.

• Effective relationship-building, communication and influencing across partners and teams.

• Agile, organised and collaborative, with strong critical path management and attention to detail.

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation

• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.