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Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview Responsible for leading a highly skilled and motivated team to build and deliver the best possible front end shopping experience across Boden's websites. Through strong collaboration with the brand, product, UX and marketing teams, you'll lead a team who deliver campaigns and experiences that meet the needs of our customers whilst delivering strong commercial performance. Location: 3 days per week based at our North Acton Office. What You Will Do Website Management Accountable for the 'on-time' and 'right first-time' delivery of product and campaign launches on the websites. Continually ensure the onsite experience is aligned with requirements of key internal stakeholders. Actively manage the workflow of product and content across multiple websites and continually review processes to provide greater accuracy, speed, or performance. Understand and share the performance of content to enable continual improvements in customer experience, product discovery, basket building and conversion rate. Oversee the trading calendar and support tactical sales initiatives to meet or exceed revenue targets. Act as a key business stakeholder for platform enhancements, digital product roadmap, A/B testing strategy, and insights-led optimisations. Customer Journey & Experience Lead the planning, execution, QA, and performance analysis of all promotional and seasonal campaigns on the Shopify Plus platform. Ensure campaigns are delivered on time, meet defined commercial objectives, and adhere to brand and UX standards. Optimize the end-to-end customer journey across all ecommerce storefronts by executing targeted campaigns, improving on-site UX, and ensuring international relevance through localisation. Collaborate with UX/UI, Analytics, and Technology teams to identify friction points and conversion drop-offs. Lead the implementation of all recommendations to increase engagement, reduce bounce rates, and improve conversion. Act as the Ecommerce Lead in cross-functional initiatives, partnering with marketing, operations, and customer service to deliver a cohesive and consistent omnichannel experience across all customer touchpoints. Collaborate across teams to drive measurable growth in organic traffic and improve search engine rankings across key ecommerce pages to increase visibility, engagement, and revenue contribution from non-paid channels. Manage on-page SEO, ensure we have the optimal site structure and technical setup in collaboration with the Technology teams. Work across teams to optimise all product details and product imagery to improve search performance both onsite and offsite. Collaborate with SEO agencies on Monthly and quarterly performance reporting delivered with insights and action plans. Use tools like Adobe Analytics, Google Search Console, and Shopify to optimize rankings and experience. Collaborate with the Commercial Domain Product Owners to define the roadmap for product information. Leadership & Management Build, retain and develop the ecommerce team through strong leadership. Create a collaborative, motivating and supportive team culture that delivers strong employee engagement. Coach and develop team members on both the IQ and EQ skills required.

Overview We collect plenty of information on what our customers buy from us in the UK, US, Germany and other international markets and we need someone to help us dive into it and build our growth plans. In this role, you will use data to build a picture of our customers' shopping behaviours to understand the factors involved in winning and retaining valuable customers. You will help us to design the strategy and objectives required to deliver our growth ambitions, through improving the health and value of our customer base. You will then help us track and understand performance against that plan, and drive action required to either correct course or grasp new opportunities.

Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview The Senior Assistant Buyer reports to the Buyer and they are responsible for assisting to manage the department. This includes management of the Admin Assistant, negotiation, supplier communication, overseeing the department critical path and systems admin to ensure deadlines are met. Location: 4-5 days per week based at our North Acton Office. What You Will Do Support the development of our amazing product working closely with internal teams and suppliers. Work closely with the Designers, Techs and Merchandisers to ensure the designs align with the Product Framework and are a balanced wearable offer. Understand the Boden brand and the customer in all trading regions and regularly monitor and analyse competitors' prices and activities. Demonstrate knowledge of the Buying cycle. Support in the creation of a robust seasonal Framework. Support the Buyer to build a balanced range which is commercial, customer focused and on brand considering all trading markets. Understand cost and fabric prices required, set target prices and negotiate with suppliers to meet the required target margin with support of the Buyers. Oversee the management of the critical path process to achieve key dates, taking appropriate actions to avoid delays or air shipment. Ensure deliveries are on time and delays are communicated in a timely manner and solutions offered. Set up order confirmation sheets and communicate to suppliers. Ensure development packs and samples meet the deadlines set out in the company. Attend fit sessions to deputise for the Junior Buyer/Buyer when required, ensuring all styles deliver the best fit and flatter, considering; core blocks, customer reviews, fabrics. Manage the Admin Assistant ensuring they meet deadlines, and work to the quality standards required. Hold weekly 121's with your Admin Assistant, coach and develop within their role. Build and maintain strong relationships with the supply base and internal teams to ensure smooth running of the department. Keep systems up to date and accurate at all times with the help of your Admin Assistant. Set up production BOM's and ensure all information is accurate before placing orders with suppliers.

Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Merchandiser to join our Womenswear team. Within this role you will support the Merchandiser at all levels, including attending range planning meetings, analysing market trends, overseeing Purchase Order Management and help to plan and deliver profitable, customer focused ranges. Location: 3 - 4 days per week based at our North Acton Office. What You Will Do Collate and analyse data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks. Participate in range planning meetings, confidently understanding KPIs. Forecast line cards for key production lines, whilst making any recommendations. Generate size ratios based on regular analysis. Analyse market trends based on regular analysis. Oversee the Purchase Order Management and approval process. Review and monitor intake against monthly stock targets. Lead weekly intake meetings. Support the monthly WSSI process, ensuring OTB sheet is up to date. Propose markdown options and depths to clear stock profitably. Create and review Monday Trade packs and present in trade meetings. Drive trade by identifying risks and opportunities.

What You Will Do Following the seasonal strategy to design unique and innovative ranges for our customer. Lead the team as well as upward management. Attention to detail and accuracy are important from sketch stage to production. Gain inspiration and innovative design ideas from a variety of sources to ensure unique Boden product. Strong delegation skills, time management and prioritising work load essential. Regular presenting of ranges to senior teams as well as involvement in building ranges. Ability to edit and show concise ideas as well as self-evaluation and problem solving. Maintain critical path dates and ensure deadlines are met including within immediate team. Produce & check detailed technical CAD drawings and development/artwork packs. Be involved in approvals at all stages from development to production, including washes/fabrics/techniques. Maintain strong relationships with Product teams. PLM management including, uploading of tech packs, colours, and creating BOMS. Strong fabric, technique/process and fit knowledge essential. Regular comp shop and inspirational shopping trips.

What You Will Do Commercial Awareness Understand the brand and customer in all our trading regions. Be customer focused in ways of working and decisions made. Be aware of economic and social trends that impact our business. Selection and Selling Drive and influence our wholesale partners to purchase in line with our capsule collections to show the best foot forward instore and online with partners. Ensuring we are working to our target margins and contribution for the partner. Leverage market and partner knowledge and analytics to help manage business growth and marketing strategies. Trade Quick to respond to current trade and constantly evaluating upcoming ranges; looking for opportunities to trade. Working with partners to offer relevant ATS stock in conjunction with our merchandising partners. Build in ability to trade with wholesale partners and establish trigger dates for trade. Chase and mitigate risk where required. Collaborate closely with direct buying and marketing teams to prioritise key products and seasonal trend opportunities. Pre-empt difficulties you may encounter and find solutions. Wholesale Partner Base Continually assess Partner base, building strong relationships to deliver best price, repeat orders, clear view on strategy and working to our critical path. Recognise opportunities and risks that form part of the Wholesale Strategy. Work closely with the Partners to develop and execute joint business plans. Build strong relationships with our wholesale partners, being the key point of contact for the partners and our internal cross functional teams. Represent our commercial partners as we develop our sales and process tools and ways of working. Negotiation Negotiate and grow your skills to meet each seasons target revenue and margin. Wholesale Critical Path Manage the seasonal wholesale calendar, ensuring all key deadlines are diarised and communicated to internal and external partners. Proactively maintain and update timelines to meet seasonal requirements. Any delays are escalated to management with solutions. Team Management Get the best out of your team by motivating, developing and coaching, keeping brand values at the forefront. Carry our regular 121's and performance reviews setting out clear, measurable targets and giving regular feedback. Delegate and manage the workload of your team appropriately to ensure accurate and quick response. Have strong relationships with the wholesale partners and internal teams to ensure smooth running of the department. Communication Communicate clearly to get quick decisions to avoid delays, be able to recognise when you can make the decision and what needs to be escalated. Speak up when something is going wrong to prevent bigger issues. Systems Ensure S&S sheets, PLM, NuOrder and other partners systems are up to date and accurate at all times. Showroom Own the set up and management of the wholesale partnership selling process, including but not limited to showroom and sample set up, digital selling management and set up facilitating best practice and ways of working across internal and external partners.

What You Will Do Commercial Awareness Understand our Brand and our customer in all our trading regions. Be customer focused in the way you work and in the decisions you make. Be aware of economic and social trends that impact our business. Strategy Deliver a seasonally framework with sales, buys and options mixes with Merchandising and Design partners to deliver a relevant product range that delivers on topline sales with the customer at the forefront. Product Development Drive the development of our amazing product working closely with Design, Garment Technology and suppliers while ensuring intake margin is delivered. Trade Quick to respond to current trade and constantly evaluating upcoming ranges and looking for opportunities to trade. Build in ability to trade with your supply base and establish trigger dates for trade. Chase and mitigate risk where required. Work with the fabric team to book and monitor fabric/yarn commitment to trade effectively through the season. Work closely with the Designers, Techs and Product Merchandisers from the start of the development stage to ensure the designs align with the Product Framework and meet quality and margin targets. Review development samples with the team to ensure suppliers have followed instructions, flag how they may differ with suppliers and what can be done to improve in the future. Supply Base Continually assess supply base, building strong relationships to deliver best price, quality, reliability and repeat lead times. Recognise opportunities and risk that form part of the Supplier Strategy. Negotiation Negotiate and grow your skills to meet each seasons target margin. Set targets and understand where you are going to make the biggest margin impact. Critical Path Ensure the department Critical Path is on time and delays are escalated to management with solutions. Establish workable FOB dates to ensure instock is met. Work with Design and Technical teams to ensure Supplier can achieve lead time. Ensure garments are always fitted on schedule. Team Management Get the best out of your team by motivating and developing, keeping brand values at the forefront. Carry our regular 121's and performance reviews setting out clear, measurable targets and giving regular feedback. Delegate and manage the workload of your team appropriately to ensure accurate and quick response. Have strong relationships with the supply base and internal teams to ensure smooth running of the department. Communication Clearly communicate to get quick decisions to avoid delays: able to recognise when you can make the decision and what needs to be escalated. Systems Ensure PLM/S5 up to date and accurate at all times.

Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview You will be responsible for taking ownership of Knitwear & Swim categories from initial concept stage to production and fit. Ranges will be presented to senior teams with confidence, passion and enthusiasm. High levels of independent on-brand research and ideation are expected as well as self evaluation, problem solving and seeking solutions. Supporting seniors, the designer will help in pulling the wider team together and mentor DAA's or Juniors. A Brilliant sense of colour & print is needed, as well as being able to ensure the Boden brand Values are reflected in designs. Being able to work alongside relevant product teams to create commercial yet creative ranges is essential. Awareness of trends, trade, fabric and margin targets are key to enable the execution of balanced ranges. Inspirational shopping/supplier visits are encouraged where possible. Location: 3 - 4 days per week based at our North Acton Office. What You Will Do Attention to detail and accuracy are important from sketch stage to production. Following the seasonal strategy, design unique and innovative ranges for our customer. Gain inspiration and innovative design ideas from a variety of sources to ensure unique Boden product. Must have a very good sense of colour, design & print. Regular presenting of ranges to senior teams. Strong delegation skills, team management and prioritising work load essential. Ability to edit and show concise ideas within the framework, as well as self-evaluation and problem solving. Produce detailed technical CAD drawings and development/artwork packs. Maintain critical path dates and ensure deadlines are met including within immediate team. Be involved in approvals at all stages from development to production. Always have the Boden values and customer in mind. PLM management including, uploading of tech packs, colours, and creating BOMS. Management of DAA/Assistant/Junior.

What You Will Do Commercial Awareness Understand our Brand and our customer in all our trading regions. Be customer focused in the way you work and in the decisions you make. Be aware of economic and social trends that impact our business. Strategy Deliver a seasonally framework with sales, buys and options mixes with Merchandising and Design partners to deliver a relevant product range that delivers on topline sales with the customer at the forefront. Product Development Drive the development of our amazing product working closely with Design, Garment Technology and suppliers while ensuring intake margin is delivered. Trade Quick to respond to current trade and constantly evaluating upcoming ranges and looking for opportunities to trade. Build in ability to trade with your supply base and establish trigger dates for trade. Chase and mitigate risk where required. Work with the fabric team to book and monitor fabric/yarn commitment to trade effectively through the season. Work closely with the Designers, Techs and Product Merchandisers from the start of the development stage to ensure the designs align with the Product Framework and meet quality and margin targets. Review development samples with the team to ensure suppliers have followed instructions, flag how they may differ with suppliers and what can be done to improve in the future. Supply Base Continually assess supply base, building strong relationships to deliver best price, quality, reliability and repeat lead times. Recognise opportunities and risk that form part of the Supplier Strategy. Negotiation Negotiate and grow your skills to meet each seasons target margin. Set targets and understand where you are going to make the biggest margin impact. Critical Path Ensure the department Critical Path is on time and delays are escalated to management with solutions. Establish workable FOB dates to ensure instock is met. Work with Design and Technical teams to ensure Supplier can achieve lead time. Ensure garments are always fitted on schedule. Team Management Get the best out of your team by motivating and developing, keeping brand values at the forefront. Carry our regular 121's and performance reviews setting out clear, measurable targets and giving regular feedback. Delegate and manage the workload of your team appropriately to ensure accurate and quick response. Have strong relationships with the supply base and internal teams to ensure smooth running of the department. Communication Clearly communicate to get quick decisions to avoid delays: able to recognise when you can make the decision and what needs to be escalated. Systems Ensure PLM/S5 up to date and accurate at all times.

Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview This role reports in to the Chief Product Officer. The role is based at our North Acton Office and attendance at the office is three days a week when not travelling overseas to meet with our supply base. The role requires international travel. What You Will Do Extend supply base to de risk China and tariffs. Extend supply base to support US growth. Work with current supply base to improve relationships, lead times and quality of service to Boden. Leverage supplier relationships to improve cost prices. Work alongside Buying and Design team to ensure we have an appropriate supply base to deliver the product that our customer wants. Work alongside Garment Technology team to ensure we have a supply base that can execute make standards according to our Brand standards. Work alongside our Fabric and Sustainability team to ensure our supply base are compliant with all procedures and practices. Find and introduce new suppliers to the business where required. Negotiate terms of business that are favourable to Boden. What We Are Looking For Strong experience in the apparel production industry. An ability to move at pace and be agile and flexible. Experience in managing overseas international relationships. Experience in building relationships internally and externally. International independent travel. Negotiating payment terms. Negotiating cost prices. Negotiating all other Boden terms. Finding new suppliers. An understanding of the global fashion apparel global landscape. Ability to write a supplier strategy for a season.

What You Will Do Create and develop the product planning strategy for the department. Collate and analyse data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks to plan the range architecture. Review size analysis and analyse market trends across product Ensure range appeal across all markets through attribute and pricing architecture. Optimise/Plan/Build range size and newness phasing always considering "think customer first". Confidently present financial KPI's, Demand phasing and OTB spend. Collaboratively present buy quantities supported with ROS and hind sighting validation. With PD Sign off/Plan/review/handover buy quantities core and fabric production forecasts. Collate, analyse, and update planning packs with historical data including ROS. Lead and present trade weekly trade Drive trade and optimise sales with agility, identifying risks and opportunities. Identify daily/weekly/monthly sales, stock and BTA risks and opportunities. Manage stock risks & opportunities. WSSI management including monthly reforecasting. Markdown management including markdown proposals. Terminal Stock management; seek best routes to clear internal & external.

Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview Reporting to the Transformation & Training Lead, the L&D Manager is responsible for managing learning programmes, LMS platforms, compliance training and increasing management capability, as well as delivering successful onboarding of new starters. You will be a strong collaborator, communicator and facilitator, supporting behavioral change and employee engagement. This role ensures a culture of continuous learning and development, driving performance across Boden offices in the UK and US. Location: 3 - 4 days per week based at our North Acton Office. What You Will Do Strategy Implementation & Training Delivery Implement our L&D strategy to support business objectives and employee growth. Design & deliver training programmes/workshops with a particular focus on management & leadership capability. Support the application of the performance management cycle. Work closely with the Internal Communications & Employee Experience Manager to drive awareness of L&D resources available. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in learning and development. Liaise with external suppliers and masterclass experts to organise and schedule sessions. Administration of booking venues, courses, sending diary invites, and tracking attendance to assist the roll out of learning interventions. Management of Digital Learning Platforms Manage/optimise the digital learning platforms - drive engagement and compliance, as well as evaluate its success. Act as main point of contact for any general enquiries with systems or workshops. Maintain L&D tools and resources, including the intranet Learning Hub site. Monitor, track and evaluate the effectiveness of training initiatives through feedback & performance analysis, to ensure solutions are cost effective and meet ROI KPIs. Setting Up New Starters for Success Work collaboratively with the wider People Team to ensure all new team members have a smooth induction experience. Deliver a best-in-class induction that inspires, motivates and supports the values of Boden. Demonstrate the impact of induction activities and identify opportunities to improve our new joiner experience.

Overview The Print Designer role is a support to the overall profit of the company by delivering 1st class pattern design, selection & production management that encapsulates the Boden brand. Knowing who our key customer 'Kate' is and how she is wearing our clothes integral. What You Will Do To design appropriately for our customer base, providing pattern for product that fulfils their requirements but most importantly excites our customers - pushing their boundaries but not crossing them. To explore innovative sources of inspiration and to carry out research on seasonal colours and pattern trends that are right for Boden. To prepare range presentations on CAD - working closely with design to present the best possible patterned options for each style and story, across all ranges. To develop and improve print methods with suppliers. To ensure the Boden brand values are reflected in all areas of work - from design development to production. Develop a key understanding and affinity with the Boden core customer. To constantly look for inspiration and trends, going on development/research/comp shopping trips as required.

Overview Boden is a direct-to-consumer fashion brand operating across the US, UK and Europe with a significant majority of its sales coming from e-commerce. As such Technology is a vital part of our business that keeps the business running day to day as well as driving growth by helping the business become more advanced. We are seeking a cloud-savvy developer to join our engineering team. As we continue to expand our cloud-based solutions, we need someone who can bring their expertise to the table. You will work alongside a team of talented business analysts, developers, quality engineers, and support staff to ensure our online presence remains top-notch. As the Senior Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining cutting-edge cloud solutions. You must possess a passion for technology, exceptional problem-solving skills, and an ability to blend logical and analytical thinking with excellent interpersonal skills. We are looking for someone with considerable experience in software development, who can collaborate with other departments to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions. If you are a cloud-centric software developer who is eager to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment, we want you on our team. What You Will Do Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure that software is delivered with high quality and reliability. Take responsibility for the entire software development lifecycle, from ideation to build, deployment and maintenance. Actively contribute to the development of standards, templates, and libraries to accelerate service development and ensure consistency across engineering teams. Collaborate with product owners, UX designers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions Be at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, design and develop software applications and systems using programming languages such as .NET and cloud native technologies. Ensure appropriate governance of designs and technology decisions according to agreed architectural principles, standards and templates. Ensure that the architecture is aligned with the company's security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

What You Will Do Own and develop our overall Solution Architecture in line with the business strategy. Design and document comprehensive end-to-end solutions that encompass software, infrastructure, and integration components. Ensure appropriate designs and technology decisions align to agreed architectural principles, standards and templates. Ensure that the architecture is aligned with the company's security, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Actively participate in the Technical Design Authority (TDA) community. Create and maintain various communication and engineering diagrams, including capability maps, process flows, value streams, data-flow diagrams, conceptual, logical, and physical solution designs. Work closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to support business roadmap shaping, feasibility and analysis. Work with our Head of Planning to help validate, breakdown and estimate larger changes. Identify opportunities for innovation and lead the exploration and implementation of new technologies and solutions.

Stylish, grounded, uplifting - these values live through everything we do at Boden. Without the collaboration, honesty and friendship between our teams, we wouldn't be where we are today. We curate a world of beauty that's ethical, inclusive - and importantly - good fun. We inspire you to live your best life. We are Boden. Overview As a Merchandising Admin Assistant at Boden you will be responsible for providing admin support to the Product team to help maximise the sales and profits for your area through intake and delivery management, ensuring our stock is in the right place at the right time. You will also support your team by providing thoughtful and accurate analysis and reporting. Location: 3-4 days per week based at our North Acton Office. What You Will Do Manage intake and deliveries, informing your team on any changes. Familiarise yourself with department, style and option weekly trade performance to be able to make decisions within your day to day role. Support the Merchandiser to conduct thoughtful sizing analysis to make recommendations on buy ratios for initial and repeat orders in accordance with the department sizing strategy and sales data. Regularly reviewing to maximise opportunities and reduce risks. Management of PO process from raising, checking and issuing, all in a timely and efficient manner. Build cross-functional relationships across Design, Product Merchandising, Product Development & Garment Tech. Other ad hoc duties as requested.