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Are you interested of joinig our journey becoming the worlds leading e-com business for kids fashion? Then this is a great opportunity!

This temporary, 1-year, role is a part of The Babyshop Group’s Buying department.  You will head up the Fashion Category, and together with the Category Operational Manager be a part of the Buying Leadership Team and report to the Chief Purchasing Officer.

We are looking for a  Strong leader with ability to set and drive strategies and lead the team in execution of the same. You are self-motivated, analytically driven, adaptable, proactive, results driven and you have strong interest in products/fashion and design, detailed oriented and structured in work relationships.

Responsibilities:

·       Ownership of the commercial targets for the Category (e.g. sales, profitability, inventory)

·       Responsible for executing and developing the category in line with the group strategic targets and objectives

·       Responsible for analyzing data and gaining insights to determine industry and consumer trends

·       Set execution strategy and together with the Category Operational Manager ensure that the Category meets business, profiling and customer expectations and demand

·       Work closely with the Marketing team and Business Controller to determine category competitive pricing, seasonal assortment/products are launched and exited on-time and that the marketing focus is aligned with strategic assortment/purchases

·       Ensure commercial alignment between branded and proprietary brands assortment supporting overall business goals of the company

·       Responsible for analyzing category supplier/brand sales, margin, profitability and turnover targets as well as develop and execute aged inventory exit strategies and pricing strategies together with the Business Controller for Fashion

·       Responsible for determining commercial order strategies and leading the team in placing appropriate orders to ensure product availability, managing inventory flows and improving working capital

·       Work closely with the Category Operational Manager to lead, develop and support the team to manage supplier/brands relationships, negotiation of allowances and terms with suppliers and delivering with operational excellence

·       Lead, mentor, coach, train and develop team members skills and foster an environment of job satisfaction and positive morale

·       The team is based in Stockholm and in London

·       The Employee will devise and execute tasks in a productive and efficient manner based on current objective and guidelines (the Employer reserves the right to amend the tasks from time to time)

·       The Employee will act and operate based on the core values of the Babyshop Group: Lead not Follow, Own It, One Family, Simplify

Requirements

·       Minimum 3 years as Category Manager or similar role and/or 5+ years’ experience of buying with responsibility for product mix, budget and profitability for a segment

·       Strong commercial mindset and excellent negotiator and relationship builder with the ability to keep focus, plan, coordinate and take ideas to execution in a fast moving and changing environment

·       BSc/BA in business administration, marketing or related field

·       Proficient in using Excel and have strong data and trend analysis ability

·       Fluent in English as well as Swedish (both verbally and in written form)

·       Experience from buying or working in a retail or e-commerce context

·       The ability to communicate confidently and professionally with colleagues across all areas of the business and act as a mentor and coach for other staff members

Do you want this job?

Of course you do! Click on "Apply" below to easily submit your application. Last day to submit your application is 2019-11-21. However, we do review applications continuously and will stop once we’ve found the one, so don’t wait too long. We look forward to meeting you! 

About Babyshop Group

The Babyshop Group; including Babyshop.com, Lekmer.se, Alexandalexa.com and 11 physical stores in Norway and Sweden is today a leading global omni-channel retailer with a total turnover of 1 billion sek.

We are a young and fast-growing company with a high entrepreneurial spirit that are passionate about creating the best buying experience for parents under the core values Own it, Simplify, Lead Not Follow and One Family. 

It all started with the single domain Babyshop.se and two entrepreneurs in 2006.

Are you an analytical and thorough person with an interest to learn more about quality work and law compliance in a company with a forever growing market? Then we are looking for you! Our quality team is working with product quality across all our categories; fashion, baby/travel, toys and home, and for them to fit our different markets across the world. We cover the quality and safety assurance both pre- and after sales working closely with our suppliers, the buying department, customer service and the warehouse.

Responsibilities

The role will be a part of the Quality team, focusing mainly on our Proprietary Brands.
We are looking for you who are eager to do an internship during, or in connection to, your studies.

• Assist on the daily quality work being in contact with factories/category managers/test labs ect
• Assist during specific quality-projects
• Support on quality improvements and product development
• Work together with the quality team to ensure product law compliance, both physical and chemical on products and their following documents
• Help to organize and store product information
• Work with Quality team/Buyers/Factories on appropriate labels according to products
• Support product testing process, failure resolution and queries
• Assist on long-term sustainability projects
• Help to store and organize golden samples.

Who are we looking for:

• Fluent in English
• Are/or has been studying at least a bachelor’s degree focusing on production, quality, materials or other relevant areas
• Ambitious and eager to learn
• Good knowledge and experience in Excel and MS Office
• Enjoys a high paced working environment
• Ability to multitask and to take quick actions
• You are social and a team player
• You are a detailed oriented and organized person.

Are you our perfect match?
Click on "Apply" below to easily submit your application. We review applications continuously. However, do to travel we will get back to each candidate first after November 4^th. Last day to submit your application is 2019-11-17.

^{The Babyshop Group; including Babyshop, Lekmer, Alexandalexa and 13 physical stores in Norway and Sweden is today a leading global omni-channel retailer with a total turnover of 1 billion sek.}

^{We are a young and fast-growing company with high entrepreneurial spirit that are passionate about creating the best buying experience for parents under the core values Own it, Simplify, Lead Not Follow and One Family.}

^{It all started with the single domain Babyshop.se and two entrepreneurs in 2006.}

Babyshop Group is in an expansion phase and are constantly developing our range of proprietary brands for all our categories.

As a Fashion Buyer intern in the Proprietary Brands (PB) department you will gain great insight into the business and will follow the buying process from the first idea to finished product actually on our warehouse and live on our website!

At the PB Fashion department, we work with developing fashion collections, shoes and accessories for children.

Assignments:

• Administrative updates in our systems
• Assist in the daily work of the PB fashion team, high and low
• Competitor and sales analysis
• Comments on samples to our suppliers
• Help out at photoshoots and other related tasks
• Buying administrative tasks, such as article registration and visual merchandising.

Requirements:

• Available for a minimum of 3 months
• Proficient in MS Office applications - particularly Excel & PowerPoint
• Highly organized with attention to detail
• Fluency in the English language is an essential requirement
• An on-going or finished education within buying and/or finance or Retail management
• You are a social team player.

Are you our perfect match? 

Click on "Apply" below to easily submit your application. We review applications continuously. However due to travel, we will get back to each candidate first after November 4^th. The last day to submit your application is 2019-11-17.

^{The Babyshop Group; including Babyshop, Lekmer, Alexandalexa and 13 physical stores in Norway and Sweden is today a leading global omni-channel retailer with a total turnover of 1 billion sek.}

^{We are a young and fast-growing company with high entrepreneurial spirit that are passionate about creating the best buying experience for parents under the core values Own it, Simplify, Lead Not Follow and One Family.}

^{It all started with the single domain Babyshop.se and two entrepreneurs in 2006.}

We are looking for a great communicator to our young and multi-cultural Babyshop Group! Are you eager to work in a really fast-paced organization with the goal to become the greatest worldwide online retailer for kids and also to become a top place to work? Do you love communication, working operational and want to try out to work tactical with retention marketing & ecommerce? 

Then this is the role for YOU!

We are looking for a structured, proactive and entrepreneurial person to join our retention team this winter (we decide based on what works for both us and you). Ideally, this will be part of your education since it is both an extremely good position to learn how ecommerce companies work and it is an unpaid internship. 

Key Responsibilities:

• To maximize the quality (how we communicate) and the relevance (who we address) of the emails given the resources you have to your disposal
• Execute campaigns – putting together emails (being able to write in Swedish is a must)
• Monitoring KPIs for each campaign to make sure that the target is reached
• Monitor and improve marketing automation flows
• Support the website team to support the goals for our campaigns

As a person, you…

• …enjoy an entrepreneurial environment with freedom, speed and a spirit that people do what’s best for the company, not necessarily always what is written in their role description
• …don't wait for anyone else to solve the problems for you
• …enjoy tasks both on a case by case basis and repetitive ones
• …are communicative
• …are analytical and good with numbers
• …a marketing nerd

APPLICATION

Sounds interesting? We would love a new friend! Click on "Apply" below to easily submit your application. If you have any questions, feel free to contact our CRM Manager, henrik.hoffman@babyshop.se.

The last day to submit your application is 2019-11-30 and we review applications continuously. 

The Babyshop Group; including Babyshop.com, Lekmer.se, Alexandalexa.com and 12 physical stores in Norway and Sweden is today a leading global omnichannel retailer with a total turnover of 1 billion SEK. We are a young and fast-growing company with a high entrepreneurial spirit that is passionate about creating the best buying experience for parents under the core values Own it, Simplify, Lead Not Follow and One Family.  It all started with the single domain Babyshop.se and two entrepreneurs in 2006.

The Babyshop Group söker nu DIG som har en kommande praktikperiod och vill vara en del av ett ungt snabbväxande bolag i sann entreprenörsanda.

Vår ambition och framförallt passion, är att skapa den bästa köpupplevelsen för föräldrar till barn mellan 0-16 år och oavsett vilket team du praktiserar hos tror vi att The Babyshop Group är det perfekta första steget ut i arbetslivet. Gillar du ett högt tempo och en vardag där ingen dag är den andre lik är detta rätt ställe för dig!

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ABOUT BABYSHOP GROUP. The Babyshop Group; including Babyshop.com, Lekmer.se, Alexandalexa.com and 13 physical stores in Norway and Sweden is today a leading global omni-channel retailer with a total turnover exceeding SEK 1 billion.

We are a young company with high entrepreneurial spirit that are passionate about creating the best buying experience for parents of children 0 – 16 years old under the core values; Own it, Simplify, Lead Not Follow and One Family.