Fashion, Sourcing, Apparel, Product Design, Negotiation, Leadership, Budgeting, Construction, Product Analysis, Commercial Awareness
Job description
Join South Africas leading fashion retailer and become part of a winning team. If fashion retail excites you, along with a fast paced and innovative environment, then this position may well be for you. With over 700 stores, renowned aspirational brands and world class systems we are regarded as front-runners in this highly competitive environment.
Are you a graduate all about fashion? As a Trainee Buyer, you will be trained to take on the challenge of giving our customers the hottest fashion looks! You will be required to interpret fashion trends for the South African market - developing, sourcing and procuring garments for our leading edge fashion brands.
- Creative and conceptual input
- Develop fashion ranges that are fashion forward to meet our customers needs
- Product design and construction
- Combine trend information with commercial awareness
- Constant product analysis
- Optimising relationships with suppliers
- Negotiation
- Managing budgets
Creative qualification
Preferably fashion degree/ diploma
Competencies:
A passion for the world of fashion
Strong negotiation skills
Truworths is committed to transformation and meeting objectives of the Employment Equity Act. Meeting our employment equity goals and targets will be taken into account in our recruitment decisions. People living with disabilities will be viewed favourably.
