Role Description

You may work for high street retailers, mail order companies or online sellers. You'll be responsible for one area like fashion, cosmetics, DIY or electronics. 

Your day-to-day tasks may include:

• analysing and forecasting trends from consumer data
• attending trade fairs to find new products
• managing product quality and getting customer feedback
• negotiating prices, orders and delivery dates
• presenting collections to senior managers
• tracking sales figures, managing stock levels and keeping to budgets
• checking and reacting to competitor activities 
• adapting quickly to changing consumer behaviour