Trainee Buyer at Truworths

The Role:

Are you a graduate all about fashion? As a Trainee Buyer, you will be trained to take on the challenge of giving our customers the hottest fashion looks! You will be required to interpret fashion trends for the South African market - developing, sourcing and procuring garments for our leading edge fashion brands.  

• Creative and conceptual input
• Develop fashion ranges that are fashion forward to meet our customers needs
• Product design and construction
• Combine trend information with commercial awareness
• Constant product analysis
• Optimising relationships with suppliers
• Negotiation
• Managing budgets
• Creative qualification
• Preferably fashion degree/ diploma
• A passion for the world of fashion
• Strong negotiation skills

Reward strategies are aimed at attracting, motivating and retaining employees and at promoting a sustainable high performance culture within the business. Remuneration practices are closely linked to the Group’s business philosophy, purpose, values and vision and to the achievement of Group, team and individual performance objectives.

Truworths is committed to transformation and meeting objectives of the Employment Equity Act. Meeting our employment equity goals and targets will be taken into account in our recruitment decisions.