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, 73% of Junior Buyer job descriptions contained factories as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

factories
73%
junior buyer
61%
product development
49%
assistant buyer
44%
buyer
40%
fashion
32%
sourcing
32%
apparel
30%
product
29%
range building
25%
senior assistant buyer
25%
sign off
23%
trends
22%
buying admin assistant
21%
buying assistant
21%
critical path
21%
new product set up
21%
purchase orders
21%
sample management
21%
instagram
18%
fmcg
11%
far east
11%
budgets
11%
margin
11%
trade fairs
11%
buying
11%
costings
9%
clothing
9%
product brief
9%
excel
9%
stock
7%
assistant merchandiser
6%
merchandiser
6%
junior merchandiser
6%
retail
5%
sales
5%
data
5%
forcasting
5%
maths
5%
senior assistant merchandiser
5%
christmas
5%
garden
5%
fashion buying
5%
account management
3%
inventory
3%
intake
3%
senior merchandise admin assistant
3%
merchandising
3%
forecasting
3%
procurement
2%
manchester
2%
administrative support
2%
graduate level
2%
junior merchandising
2%
buyers
2%
brands
2%
indirect
2%
negations
2%
fashion design
2%
communication skills
2%
textiles
2%
sales analysis
2%
stores
2%
homeware
2%
ecommerce
2%
mark downs
2%
skus
2%
category manager
2%
furniture
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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