{"id":163907,"date":"2021-01-18T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/podcast-liberty-buying-director-sarah-coonan\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:42:17","slug":"podcast-liberty-buying-director-sarah-coonan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/podcast-liberty-buying-director-sarah-coonan\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Liberty Buying Director, Sarah Coonan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Welcome to the latest episode of our Podcast series<\/strong>\u00a0where we bring you\u00a0<strong>inspiring stories, retail insights and conversation from fashion and beauty's most influential business leaders.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-7351396\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/991828\/7351396-in-conversation-with-liberty-buying-director-sarah-coonan.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-7351396&player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/theindustry-fashion-podcast-in-conversation\/id1508914290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141774\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-04-23-at-09.41.45-300x74.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/13J2FpG7X8AH9Ioi0bVxW8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141777\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Black-300x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this week's podcast, we speak to Sarah Coonan, the Buying Director of one of British retail's most loved department stores, Liberty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After studying fashion at university and a stint as a beauty buyer at Harrods, Sarah has made Liberty home for over a decade. Along with her team, she's responsible for the edit of each floor at the iconic retailer.<\/p>\n<p>A self-confessed data geek, Sarah tells us how she uses consumer data matched with her creative flair to find unique brands to introduce to the customers at Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>We also ask her the million dollar question: If she could stock any brand, what do would it would be?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162474 \" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sarahcoonan1759-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Coonan\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">To be the first to know when more episodes of our Podcast series go live, subscribe to our daily newsletter <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/subscribe-now\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=insight_button&amp;utm_content=insight_button_0719\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our 'In Conversation' and 'The Beauty Edit' Podcasts are staged in proud partnership with<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141519\" src=\"https:\/\/theindustry.beauty\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-02-17-at-17.34.44-1-300x82.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah tells us how she uses consumer data matched with her creative flair to find unique brands to introduce to the customers at Liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":142055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10528,9789,17024],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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