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, 71% of Junior Buyer job descriptions contained factories as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

factories
71%
junior buyer
67%
product development
53%
buyer
46%
fashion
39%
assistant buyer
37%
apparel
37%
product
34%
sourcing
33%
range building
21%
instagram
21%
sign off
21%
senior assistant buyer
21%
trends
20%
purchase orders
17%
sample management
17%
buying admin assistant
17%
new product set up
17%
buying assistant
17%
critical path
17%
buying
15%
margin
14%
trade fairs
14%
far east
14%
fmcg
14%
budgets
14%
product brief
12%
clothing
12%
costings
9%
garden
8%
christmas
8%
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
3%
forecasting
3%
procurement
3%
indirect
3%
buyers
3%
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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