Gift Buyer - Maternity Cover

Join the team at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and play a key role in shaping what our visitors can take home with them. You’ll help create and develop product ranges for Kew, Wakehurst and our online shop, making sure they feel relevant, well-designed and true to our brand. Working closely with colleagues, you’ll help choose the right products, manage suppliers and keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes. It’s a varied, hands-on role where you can make a real impact on the retail experience.

Join the team at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and play a key role in shaping what our visitors can take home with them. You’ll help create and develop product ranges for Kew, Wakehurst and our online shop, making sure they feel relevant, well-designed and true to our brand. Working closely with colleagues, you’ll help choose the right products, manage suppliers and keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes. It’s a varied, hands-on role where you can make a real impact on the retail experience.

Gift Buyer - Maternity Cover

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You will have proven buying experience, ideally within the gift sector, with a strong eye for design and the ability to select products that appeal to a range of target audiences. You will demonstrate strong budget management, commercial awareness, and a track record of meeting targets. Confident in negotiation and influencing, you will have knowledge of relevant suppliers and excellent communication skills. You will be IT literate, with experience of Microsoft D365 and buying for visitor attractions desirable.

Interviews are due to be held on 4 May.

This role is based at Kew with the option of regular home working, subject to operational requirements.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) is a leading plant science institute, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and major visitor attraction. Our mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth.

We are working to end the unprecedented extinction crisis and to help create a world where nature is protected, valued by all and managed sustainably. We will achieve these goals by drawing on our leading scientific research, unrivalled collections of plants and fungi, global network of partners, inspirational gardens at Kew and Wakehurst, and our 260 years of history.

Join us on our journey as protectors of the world’s plants and fungi.

The salary for this position is £33,862 per annum [Grade 4]

Our fantastic benefits package includes opportunities for continuous learning, a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, an Employee Assistance Programme and other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership. We also offer a competitive pension, an employee discount scheme and free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well as access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst.

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application through the online portal, by clicking “Apply for this job”.

We are dedicated to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to interview disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.

No agencies please.