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, 75% of Junior Buyer job descriptions contained factories as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

factories
75%
junior buyer
59%
assistant buyer
48%
product development
48%
buyer
36%
sourcing
33%
senior assistant buyer
29%
range building
29%
fashion
27%
apparel
26%
sign off
26%
product
25%
trends
24%
purchase orders
22%
buying assistant
22%
critical path
22%
sample management
22%
new product set up
22%
buying admin assistant
22%
instagram
16%
buying
9%
trade fairs
9%
margin
9%
fmcg
9%
far east
9%
budgets
9%
excel
8%
costings
8%
stock
7%
clothing
7%
product brief
7%
junior merchandiser
6%
merchandiser
6%
assistant merchandiser
6%
forcasting
4%
data
4%
maths
4%
sales
4%
retail
4%
senior assistant merchandiser
4%
fashion buying
4%
merchandising
3%
account management
3%
christmas
3%
ecommerce
3%
garden
3%
forecasting
3%
senior merchandise admin assistant
3%
inventory
3%
intake
3%
textiles
3%
category manager
3%
furniture
3%
negations
3%
homeware
3%
buyers
2%
indirect
2%
procurement
2%
graduate level
2%
administrative support
2%
manchester
2%
junior merchandising
2%
brands
2%
fashion design
2%
communication skills
2%
skus
2%
mark downs
2%
stores
2%
sales analysis
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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