Careers

AT THE FOLD

Careers

AT THE FOLD

The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world’s most influential female leaders and innovators.

Join The Fold Team

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example –never compromising on our quality.

We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.

See below for the roles we are currently recruiting for:

Join The Fold Team

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example –never compromising on our quality. We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.

See below for the roles we are currently recruiting for:

We are not currently recruiting! Please keep an eye on the page for any further job opportunities with The Fold.

We are looking for:

Junior Buyer

About the role:

The Junior Buyer will own the end-to-end buying and trading of their own categories while playing a key role in the day-to-day running of the department, ensuring operational excellence and timely delivery.

Reporting into the Senior Buyer, this role offers significant ownership and autonomy, alongside strategic oversight, mentoring, and final sign-off. The Junior Buyer will also support the management of the Assistant Buyer, ensuring departmental tasks are delivered efficiently and to deadline.

Your responsibilities:

Range Development:

Own and manage the buying of The Fold product, delivering commercially successful and on-brand ranges
Lead seasonal range planning, option counts, pricing architecture, and product development
Drive the development of our products, including yarn selection, fabrication, fit, and construction
Manage supplier relationships and negotiate cost prices in line with margin targets
Present seasonal ranges, trade updates, and strategic proposals to Management and wider teams
Act as the expert for your own categories, keeping up to date with market trends
Conduct regular competitor analysis to inform range and trading decisions
Ensure all products align with The Fold London’s quality, sustainability, and brand standards
Work with the Assistant Buyer to manage the critical path for Knitwear, Footwear and Accessories, achieving the business KPI for on time deliveries

Trading & Commercial Performance:

Take ownership of sales, margin, intake, and stock performance across the departments
Analyse weekly and seasonal trading, identifying re-buy, repeat, and manage risks
Manage markdown and stock optimisation strategies in collaboration with Merchandising

Department Management & Team Support:

Support the day-to-day management of the Assistant Buyer, ensuring clear prioritisation and delivery of Buying tasks
Oversee departmental workflows including meeting preparation, reporting, system updates and follow-ups
Work with the Assistant Buyer to ensure shoot samples, press samples, and internal review samples arrive on time and to standard, reporting back to Product Director and Senior Buyer
Act as the point of accountability for day-to-day department deliverables, escalating issues to the Senior Buyer where appropriate
Work closely with Production, Design, Merchandising, Marketing, and E-commerce to ensure deadlines are met

Your skillset:

Strong womenswear buying experience and technical knowledge
Confident managing priorities, timelines, and junior team members
Strong commercial, analytical, and negotiation skills
Comfortable taking ownership and accountability for departments
Organised, proactive, and solutions-focused
Clear communicator with confidence to lead day-to-day operations

Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:

25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
Buy additional holidays
Employee Assistance Programme
Pension salary sacrifice scheme
Access to free Financial Advisors
Grocery scheme to help you save money
Clothing allowance
A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
Enhanced maternity pay
Summer Friday hours
Eye care
Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
Volunteering

Our Culture:

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:

Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.

To apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@thefoldlondon.com. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.

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