Jobs in Reading Middlesex County, 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

Operations Support

Because your opportunities are endless

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 you create a safe customer and colleague in-store environment and support operational excellence for an amazing shopping experience. If you are ready to do retail our way, apply now to be an in-store Operations Support colleague!

What will I be doing?

As the in-store Operations Support colleague, you will support the Store Manager and the Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Lead with store operational and EHS task. In this role, you will act as the in-store main point of contact to help maintain a safe working environment and ensure a positive shopping experience for our customers. From supporting POS ticketing and maintaining stock file accuracy to promoting EHS compliance with training, this role is instrumental in support both safety and operational excellence in-store.

Here is how it looks in action:

• Support the Store Management team by proactively mitigating hazards, conducing training programs and driving operational excellence

• Support the customer experience by printing POS tickets and assist with updating price adjustments

• Support with EHS activities in accordance to local guidelines, including training new hiring and training refresher courses

• Raise maintenance repair orders, liaising with contractors, and supporting store management teams required contractor paperwork

• Assist with reporting and resolving technology repairs in a timely manner

• Input updates to systems and maintain stock file accuracy and manage lost property process

• Order PPE, store stationary orders, shop floor hardware goods, and ensure First Aid kits are stocked

• Support with routine self-audits and update the Store Manager/ EHS & Operations In-Store Lead on daily/weekly activities and deadlines

Who you are:

You have a passion for store operations and enjoy providing a great colleague and customer experience! You also bring the following skills and experience:

• Strong organizations, administration, and data entry skills.

• Great people skills with the ability to build and maintain credible working relationships with colleagues.

• Ability to effectively communicate, guide, and support colleagues

• Planning and organising skills with strong attention to detail.

• Administrative, data entry, and computer skills.

• Positive, proactive, and self-motivated

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!

Our fashion isn’t one-size-fits-all and neither is our culture. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves, have the same opportunities and thrive together.

The pay range for this role is: $18.70

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.

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.