Wendy Hill, the senior buyer in the company's Post division, was instrumental in setting up the mentor program.

Ms. Brady was already here, working as a senior buyer at Bloomingdales.

They may help senior buyers with basic aspects of retailing.

Therefore an assistant buyer can easily work their way up to senior buyer within 3-5 years.

Her father, now retired, was a senior buyer for Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago.

These are influential positions, but generally it is less senior buyers who actually write orders.

Her father is a senior buyer for Color Tile, a distributor of floor coverings in Arlington.

She is a senior buyer in London for the House of Frasier, a department store company.

Whether senior buyers are able at the same time to exercise an influencing and decision making role will depend on organisational factors.

Certainly, one of the organisational reasons for centralising the buying function in a company is that it gives senior buyers more clout.