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, 75% of Senior Buyer job descriptions contained assistant buyer as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

assistant buyer
75%
brands
50%
buying assistant
50%
factories
43%
suppliers
43%
critical path
40%
purchase orders
36%
junior buyer
33%
fmcg
29%
senior assistant buyer
29%
negations
25%
negotiations
18%
purchasing
15%
range building
15%
own brand
11%
buyer
11%
sourcing
11%
trends
11%
product development
11%
sign off
11%
buying
11%
retail
11%
fashion buying
8%
buyers assistant
8%
stores
8%
buying administrator
4%
stationery
4%
ladieswear
4%
negotiation
4%
senior buyer
4%
china
4%
homeware
4%
immediately available
4%
accessories
4%
far east sourcing
4%
apparel
4%
npd
4%
fashion
4%
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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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