Buyer - Fine Jewellery

It’s a great time to join our team, as a growing and scaling retailer with a twist, working and innovating together helps us realise our purpose to ‘make every cruise better’. At Harding+, we’re recruiting for a Buyer to join our Fine Jewellery team, you will have a strong commercial retail background and a true passion for jewellery. As a Buyer you will source and curate meaningful products that resonate with our guests and become treasured memories of their time onboard.

About The Role

Reporting to the Category Manager, you will manage the category through market research, range selection, assortment planning, brand sourcing, and supplier relationships. Building trusted relationships with your key vendors, as well as being able to negotiate confidently will be critical in the role. You will become the product expert, creating and reviewing core ranges that excite our guests and reflect global trends. Based in Avonmouth on a hybrid working basis – 2/3 days per week

Compensation – competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 4 x life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 26 days annual leave (plus the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days)

What You Will Be Doing

Key areas of responsibility:

• Vendor management – end to end management including sourcing new suppliers and negotiation
• Range management – full management by category, working closely with merchandising and suppliers to review accordingly, as well as global promotional programmes
• Teamwork – bring your knowledge and experience to collaborate with the team to support commercial growth and deliver great results across the FJ category

The role will work cross functionally across Harding, specifically with Merchandising, Marketing, Operations and Visual Merchandising to ensure product supply, stock, promotions, and positioning of product on board.

About You

Proven Retail Buying experience preferably within Fine Jewellery

Excellent and effective verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail

Resilient, with the ability to prioritise in an ever changing environment

Good presentation and face to face communication ability required, with proven negotiation skills

Adaptable attitude towards change, opportunities, and project management as required

Strong IT skills including Excel and PowerPoint

Structured planning, organisation, and time management skills

Happy to travel internationally to Trade Shows when needed

Must have an existing right of eligibility to work in the UK

Key Attributes – trust, collaboration, respect, passion, drive, resilience

About Us

Harding+ is the only 100% dedicated cruise retailer, proudly partnering with 12 cruise line operators globally, across more than 80+ cruise ships either in operation or under contract. Our mission is simple: make every cruise better. We operate over 300 retail shops across 80+ ships, covering 17,000m² of retail space and handling 6.6 million transactions annually. Our team includes over 1,300 onboard team members and more than 270 landside employees, we stay at the forefront of retailing and consistently provide outstanding customer service, culminating in winning the Cruise Retailer of the Year award for 2022 and 2023. Harding+ is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding+.