Buyer (maternity cover)

The Role

Working collaboratively with the rest of the Buying team, this role is responsible for developing, sourcing and selecting fashion accessories and clothing products for all V&A shops, across our London sites, and including exhibitions.

You will work as part of the Retail team to build product ranges that reflect the varied needs of our V&A audience, contributing to a retail offer worthy of the V&A brand and reputation. This role line manages the Junior Buyer.

The ideal candidate will have significant prior Buying experience, with a customer driven and design led approach.

This role necessitates the ability to juggle multiple projects with attention to detail, requiring a highly organised and flexible individual.

Reporting to the Senior Buyer, this role is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled Buyer with creative flair looking for collaborative, ambitious product development projects and product sourcing.

The V&A

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

Our mission is to be recognised as the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people’s lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

• To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
• Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
• Expand the V&A’s international reach, reputation and impact.
• To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
• Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
• Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.