Retail Sourcing Associate
TJX
Retail Sourcing Associate
TJX
Runs off-price clothing and home goods stores
At TJX Europe, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritises your development. Whether you’re working in our Distribution Centers, Corporate Offices, or Retail Stores—TK Maxx & Homesense, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX team—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.
Job Description:
TJX & GLOBAL BUYING OFFICES
TJX is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the world, delivering great value to our customers through the combination of brand, fashion, price, and quality. Our retail chains, present in nine countries, include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Winners, HomeGoods, Sierra, TK Maxx and Homesense.
A crucial part of our Company is represented by our Global Buying Offices, where resident buyers and sourcers purchase goods locally and scout regional markets looking for exciting products for our stores.
Global Buying Offices in Europe are present in Italy, UK, Portugal and we have Associates also in Poland, The Netherlands and Spain.
Come and Discover Different at TJX Global Buying Offices. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find that it’s so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our global TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people dedicated to finding the greatest deals and fantastic style. Best of all? They have a lot of fun doing it.
JOB SUMMARY: RETAIL SOURCING ASSOCIATE
Conduct market research and make recommendations on sourcing opportunities for assigned product brands or market sectors for TJX buyers and internal sourcing unit. The sourcer can handle goods in all product categories.
Evaluate new opportunities in European markets, map out competition for categories & products in these countries and develop relationships with vendors.
Organize the trip and appointments to maximize the buyer’s time and results. Accompany the buyer for the entire trip during the selection and negotiation process in order to facilitate the definition of the order. Monitor order from placement with vendor, sample distribution, to final quality inspection and shipping.
Ensures vendors are onboarded properly and appropriately, and potential orders are placed correctly, as well as production of goods meets established timetables & quality as well as Compliance standards.
Work within a cross-functional team, partnering with TJX Sourcers, Merchants, Product Compliance, and Logistics teams in the European Buying Office, both on-site and remotely.
EXPERIENCE
Experience as sourcer or possibly in international retail companies with a focus on sourcing and/or buying is requested, preferably with European brands & vendors.
LANGUAGES
English proficient is a requirement
French proficient is a requirement
Address:
73 Clarendon RoadLocation:
EUR Home Office Watford GBTJX runs off-price stores that sell brand-name clothing, shoes, accessories and home goods for less than department stores and malls charge, in the United States and abroad. Its best-known U.S. chains are T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, which shoppers visit often because each store's mix of labels and products changes from week to week. Instead of ordering fixed seasonal collections, its buyers purchase closeouts, canceled orders and excess production directly from brands, and TJX makes money by reselling those goods at markdowns while keeping its own buying costs low. TJX was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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