Virgin Galactic is a commercial spaceline that creates commercial spacecraft. It provides suborbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital human spaceflights. Backed by Space Capital.
About the role
This role is an extention of the creative vision for the astronaut experience into commercially disciplined product assortments. The Senior Buyer leads category and assortment planning, vendor sourcing and negotiation, product selection, costing, pricing recommendations, purchase-order placement, production schedules, inventory requirements, and delivery performance, while continuing to guide creative product development, storytelling, quality, and brand alignment.
What they're looking for
- Lead Buyer: Serve as the principal buyer for astronaut- and guest-focused merchandise across apparel, accessories, collectibles, gifting, amenities, and premium lifestyle products
- Category & Assortment Planning: Define category architecture, seasonal and capsule assortments, product mix, price ladders, size curves, and quantities by audience, program, and occasion
- Range Reviews & Buy Decisions: Lead line reviews and make evidence-based recommendations on products, suppliers, cost targets, retail prices, order volumes, launch timing, and replenishment
- Customer & Market Insight: Use astronaut and guest feedback, sales performance, market intelligence, and relevant consumer trends to identify opportunities and refine the range
- Merchandise Calendar: Own the end-to-end calendar from concept, sampling, and approvals through purchase orders, production, delivery, launch, and replenishment
- Buying Budget & Open-to-Buy: Develop and manage purchasing budgets, open-to-buy, category financial plans, and commitments in partnership with Finance and Commercial teams
More about this role
The Senior Manager, Product & Merchandising serves as Virgin Galactic's lead merchandise buyer and owns the end-to-end commercial development of merchandise supporting the astronaut journey. The portfolio includes apparel, accessories, collectibles, gifting, amenities, and premium lifestyle products for Spacefarers, flown astronauts, invited guests, and selected Virgin Galactic experiences.
This role is an extention of the creative vision for the astronaut experience into commercially disciplined product assortments. The Senior Buyer leads category and assortment planning, vendor sourcing and negotiation, product selection, costing, pricing recommendations, purchase-order placement, production schedules, inventory requirements, and delivery performance, while continuing to guide creative product development, storytelling, quality, and brand alignment.
Working across Astronaut Operations, Brand, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Supply Chain, and experience teams, this leader ensures each product is distinctive, relevant, responsibly sourced, operationally executable, and available at the right time, quantity, quality, and cost.
Key Responsibilities
1. Merchandise Buying &...
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