Junior Buyer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Retail

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Junior Buyer Skills List in Retail

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Junior Buyer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Junior Buyer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 68% of Junior Buyer job descriptions contained factories as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

factories
68%
junior buyer
67%
product development
54%
buyer
49%
fashion
42%
apparel
41%
product
36%
assistant buyer
33%
sourcing
31%
instagram
23%
sign off
18%
senior assistant buyer
18%
range building
18%
trends
18%
buying
17%
purchase orders
15%
new product set up
15%
buying admin assistant
15%
buying assistant
15%
critical path
15%
sample management
15%
fmcg
13%
margin
13%
trade fairs
13%
far east
13%
budgets
13%
product brief
13%
clothing
13%
costings
10%
garden
9%
christmas
9%
excel
5%
merchandising
5%
fashion buying
5%
stock
5%
senior assistant merchandiser
5%
merchandiser
5%
maths
5%
data
5%
forcasting
5%
junior merchandiser
5%
account management
4%
forecasting
4%
procurement
4%
indirect
4%
buyers
4%
manchester
2%
retail
2%
administrative support
2%
graduate level
2%
junior merchandising
2%
brands
2%
assistant merchandiser
2%
sales
2%
fashion design
2%
communication skills
2%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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