Junior Digital Buyer
Al Tayer Insignia I Junior Digital Buyer I Beauty
As a leader in luxury retail in the Middle East, Al Tayer Group's retail division, Al Tayer Insignia, hosts a portfolio of some of the world’s best luxury brands in the fashion, jewellery, home and department store categories. Complementing its position in luxury retail, Al Tayer Insignia has also built new frontiers in lifestyle retail, representing leading brands in the Beauty, Home, Fashion and Hospitality sectors. Our brands include Bloomingdale’s, Harvey Nichols, Areej, Aveda and Armani to name just a few!
About The Role
We’re seeking a Junior Digital Beauty Buyer to support the growth of our online beauty offering across OUNASS, Al Tayer’s leading digital luxury platform in the UAE. This role is focused on planning, forecasting, and buying the right product mix for our digital channels, ensuring assortments meet customer demand while maximizing profitability and maintaining brand relevance.
As a key link between the digital trading team and external beauty brand partners, you’ll ensure product data is accurate and aligned with technical requirements that support conversion-driving initiatives such as SEO, searchability, and onsite merchandising.
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of eCommerce, buying, and digital innovation, supporting some of the world’s most prestigious beauty brands in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
What you’ll be doing
Strategic Roles and Responsibilities
• Support the formulation and execution of the digital buying department’s strategy to ensure best in market results achieved.
• Building strong, mutually beneficial brand and digital team relationships.
• Analyze market trends, consumer preferences, sell through, seasonal demands to formulate a digital buying practice in line with consumer/online demands
Functional Roles and Responsibilities
• Drive the online exposure calendar in line with consumer needs and key brand launches.
• Support with and suggest promotional calendar based on consumer trends, key market launches, revenue performance, stock on hand, digital and brand opportunities.
• Identify brands that will add value to our online platforms and support Digital buyer with negotiations and brand launch.
• Monitor the stock levels online and coordinate with planning team to maintain optimal stock levels in line with the consumer demand.
• Support the promotional activities online ensuring the merchandise is available in time and in right quantities.
• Receive and analyze reports on the activities and provide recommendations to the Senior digital buyer, when required.
• Co-ordinate GWP’s for online, ensure items are created and stock is in situ before campaign is launched.
• Support PR and Marketing teams by guiding and validating the selection of products to be included in planned campaigns for the brands.
• Drive conversations with brands to participate in digital initiatives, such as VTO/Skin analysis and Power reviews. Support them with information and in delivering required data needed to adopt the technology.
• Keep abreast of market trends and awareness of competitor activities, both digital only and Omni channel,
• Review buying feedback reports and monitor sales performance on weekly basis against set targets and provide recommendations to Senior digital buyer, brands as to buying strategy for a respective brand.
• Prepare periodic reports both for the business and as requested by principals analyzing the sale turnover and consumer trends per product to arrive at a proposal to maintain/liquidate/dispose of the stocks in conjunction with Planning and/or continue/discontinue product lines.
• Support with contract negotiations ensuring optimum commercial terms are agreed for the business
• Monitor stock levels negotiating stock returns/swaps/rtvs when required.
Job Requirements
· Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in the beauty buying/retailing across Digital
· Strong interest in the Digital space and Beauty is essential
