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

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Senior Buyer Skills List in Retail

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

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

factories
68%
junior buyer
48%
buyer
40%
product development
35%
assistant buyer
29%
product
29%
range building
27%
sourcing
24%
far east
22%
sign off
22%
trade fairs
22%
margin
22%
fmcg
22%
budgets
22%
driver
16%
electrical products
16%
local area
16%
critical path
15%
senior assistant buyer
15%
fashion
10%
costings
8%
buying admin assistant
8%
buying assistant
8%
new product set up
8%
instagram
8%
apparel
8%
purchase orders
8%
sample management
8%
trends
8%
negotiation
8%
retail
7%
buying
7%
garden
7%
christmas
7%
negations
6%
senior buyer
6%
category manager
6%
brands
6%
furniture
6%
bd
4%
account manager
4%
bdm
4%
business development
4%
sales manager
4%
own brand
4%
wholesale
3%
food service
3%
analytical
3%
commercial awareness
3%
leadership
3%
project management
3%
supplier negotiation
3%
purchasing
3%
goods
2%
management
2%
ordering
2%
controller
2%
returns
2%
stock control
2%
trade
2%
training
2%
fm
2%
insight
2%
data analysis
2%
introducing new products
2%
merchandising
2%
manchester
2%
junior merchandising
2%
assistant merchandiser
2%
fashion buying
2%
account management
2%
homewares
2%

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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