Jobs in North Reading, MA

KLR Executive Search is proud to partner with Long’s Jewelers, a family-owned and operated fine jeweler with seven locations throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire. For more than a century, Long’s has been New England’s premier destination for fine jewelry, luxury watches, and exceptional client experiences. With a reputation built on trust, integrity, and multi-generational relationships, Long’s is more than a retailer — it is a steward of celebrating life’s most meaningful moments. The Long’s boutique portfolio includes partnerships with the world’s most prestigious brands, including Rolex and Patek Philippe. Long’s is proud to offer clients access to some of the rarest and most coveted timepieces in the world, approaching every interaction with the belief that true luxury is about heritage, loyalty, and lasting connection.

The Opportunity

• The Senior Buyer (Luxury Watches) is a highly trusted, strategically critical leader responsible for overseeing Long’s luxury watch buying strategy and vendor relationships across the portfolio, including direct oversight of the Rolex buying function.
• This role is intentionally focused on buying, allocation, and brand partnership leadership and does not include responsibility for service, repair, or Certified Pre-Owned operations, which are managed by a separate, dedicated operations leader.
• The Senior Buyer partners closely with ownership, the Boutique Director, and Sales leadership but does not directly manage the sales team.
• This is a confidential, senior-level position based in Burlington, MA, requiring daily on-site presence. Travel required to stores, vendors in New York, and occasional international trips (e.g., Switzerland).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead buying strategy across all luxury watch brands, aligning assortment, allocation, and inventory decisions with Long’s long-term growth objectives.
• Evaluate buying workflows and decision-making processes to ensure consistency, discipline, and scalability.
• Serve as Long’s primary liaison to luxury watch brands.
• Understand and leverage allocation drivers including performance, brand presentation, and long-term relationship stewardship.
• Oversee watch allocations and internal distribution strategy.
• Lead inventory mix, product flow, and buying decisions across all watch brands.
• Analyze performance, trends, and sell-through to inform future purchasing decisions.
• Provide product insights, allocation visibility, and forward-looking guidance to support selling.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in luxury watch buying, fine jewelry, or high-end multi-brand retail environments.
• Demonstrated success managing luxury watch vendor relationships, including allocation strategy and long-term brand stewardship.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring buyers and establishing organized buying processes allowing for flexibility as the department grows.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance inventory investment, allocation constraints, and client demand.
• Experience working closely with sales leadership while maintaining independence from day-to-day sales management.
• Highly credible, diplomatic, and trusted by senior brand partners.
• Analytical and detail-oriented, with the ability to interpret performance data and market trends to inform buying decisions.
• Comfortable with creating reports and navigating various technology and systems including Excel, POS, CRM, and other PIM/PLM tools.
• High degree of discretion, professionalism, and brand-appropriate presence.
• Experience within a family-owned or relationship-driven luxury business environment preferred.

Pay Range: The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $175,000 and reflects base salary only. Benefits and, where applicable, bonus or incentive compensation may be offered in addition to base salary

Visual Merchandiser

Because you bring fashion to life

Here at Primark, we love to do things our way. We help our customers keep up with high fashion at affordable prices. Our strong values run through everything we do. We’re caring, dynamic and we succeed together. There’s real accountability and ownership here as the creative ambassador for visual merchandising. If you thrive on creativity, apply now to be a Visual Merchandiser!

What will I be doing?

As a Visual Merchandise, you will be the creative ambassador for the visual merchandising in your store. You will deliver an inspiring visual proposition for the Primark brand, driving commerciality to enhance the customer experience and maximise sales. Here is how it looks in action:

• Partner with the Visual Merchandising Manager and Store Manager to deliver high visual standards that exceed customer experience and inspire a great store environment
• Reflect the local Primark customer in the latest trends through excellent product presentation, windows, and mannequin styling, while adhering to Primark guidelines
• Review and adapt displays making sure they are commercially successful and relevant to the local customer and refresh with alternative products if key pieces become unavailable
• Champion visual merchandising best practices and principles to create displays that reflect the latest trends and influence the customer journey
• Utilize knowledge of stock and availability to support customer queries and provide excellent customer service and style advice
• Provide consultation and advice to colleagues to support the visual proposition throughout the store
• Launch all new campaigns across the store, effectively, adhering to store guidelines and utilizing input for your line manager
• Support with management meeting and colleague team huddles, providing regular updates on key visual trends, campaigns, and upcoming visual merchandising activities for the week
• Maintain all pricing tickets, pictures and poster POS are in line with company POS guidelines

Who you are:

We love fashion and amazing our customers with our visual displays and that starts with you! Your eye for detail, fashion, trends, and style will be exceptional, along with your passion for the creative aspect of this role. Your experience and skills will include:

• Previous retail and visual merchandising experience.
• Excellent creative skills that deliver an impactful visual proposition that maximise sales.
• Great people skills with an ability to build and maintain credible working relationships with colleagues.
• The ability to be proactive and able to plan work independently and to prioritize work.
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Strong service focus with experience of delivering excellent customer experience while maintaining high retail standards.
• Strong interest in fashion and the latest trends.
• You’re a team player with high levels of motivation, a positive attitude and willingness to learn

Excited? Good. Because it’s energising to put your skills to work, in a growing global business committed to helping people express themselves – and feel a sense of belonging.

We encourage all our people to grow, learn, and develop. Apply today to join us as a Visual Merchandiser!

The pay range for this role is: $22-$25

This is a good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The base pay rate offered will account for internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region of work, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

Our fashion isn’t one-size-fits-all and neither is our culture. Primark promotes equal employment opportunity, we strive to create an inclusive workplace where people can be themselves, access opportunities and thrive together.

Primark is an equal opportunity employer. Primark does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Primark is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please email with your request. This email is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.