Job Description

The Role

If you have a flair for product, outstanding commercial awareness, Menswear sourcing knowledge, then this opportunity might be of interest. We are looking for a Sales and Sourcing Manager for Next Sourcing - Menswear department. This is a great development opportunity, and the chance to work within a fantastic team.

Next Sourcing stands as a fully owned subsidiary of Next PLC, known for its commitment to excellence in the apparel and footwear industry. We are driven by innovation, and are dedicated to delivering high-quality products and exceptional experiences to our customers. We are excited to welcome a passionate and experienced sales and sourcing manager to our growing NS Menswear department. This role will report into the Head of Sales & Sourcing (Menswear & Home) at Next Sourcing.

What You’ll Take On

• Collaboration: Work with sourcing teams in the territories on clear strategies, in advance of the season, to bring the best offer to our menswear buying teams.. This includes identifying key opportunities for each product area and working on comprehensive offers that ensure strong product development, competitive pricing, and quick response times.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor Next Sourcing sales performance and provide guidance, motivation, and support to the teams in territories to improve results. This involves tracking and analysing sales targets, identifying areas for improvement, and reporting progress to senior management.
• Opportunity Identification: Constantly identify new product opportunities and areas for potential growth. Sell these ideas to the buying teams, work towards converting these opportunities into orders, and drive new sales opportunities for the company.
• Product Development Be heavily involved in product development, driving new opportunities from concept and sourcing through to ready-to-buy products.
• Critical Path Management: Manage the Next Sourcing critical path, ensuring products are designed and delivered according to key dates such as range reviews and selections.
• Sales and Influence: Sell product offers to the product teams with conviction, using your influence to help evolve their ranges. Drive sales for the company by ensuring alignment with each product department needs.
• Negotiations: Assist with price negotiations, delivery negotiations, and small quantity order negotiations as necessary. Deliver competitive prices, timely deliveries, and excellent service to our customers.
• Troubleshooting: Act as a link between Next Sourcing and teams in territories, assisting with troubleshooting where needed to ensure Next Sourcing remains the first choice for customers.
• Travel Requirements: Travel will be required for seasonal territory visits, trade shows, and inspiration trips.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone looking to progress and really accelerate their development.

What You’ll Bring

You will need a strong product development background with extensive sourcing knowledge. Experience in buying or merchandising would be preferable. You should demonstrate exceptional commercial awareness and a comprehensive understanding of trends, along with a solid grasp of product development and manufacture. The ability to work effectively within your department's team while being highly personable and engaging across the business is essential. You should be experienced and capable of presenting new concepts and suggestions to encourage new sales opportunities, as well as selling product offerings to key stakeholders with conviction.

Additionally, you will need the drive and enthusiasm to follow tasks through to completion, along with strong problem-solving skills. Experience gained within buying, merchandising and sourcing from suppliers would be highly beneficial.

Great opportunity for an experienced Assistant Buyer or Merchandiser looking for Grade 2 progression.

Sponsorship

Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements. For further information please see: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

We encourage early applications for our roles, as our recruitment process begins as soon as the role is advertised. If we successfully fill the position, this advert may close earlier than planned.

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!