About the role
Are you passionate about a career in Buying? Do you want to work for an iconic brand across a range of categories? Are you great at building relationships with suppliers and internal teams? If so, this may be just the job for you. We are recruiting a number of permanent Buying Assistants across various categories including: Fashion - Direct to Customer and Men's Own Brand Home - Textiles: Made to measure fabrics
- Expected salary: up to £31,000 per annum depending on experience
- Contract type: This is a permanent role
- Location: This is a hybrid working role. The normal place of work for this role is our London Central Office in Pimlico. The expectation is a minimum of 3 days per week in the office as team collaboration is critical in this role - core days will vary across teams
Key responsibilities:
- Managing milestones and adhering to standard processes
- Supporting, buying and executing the administrative tasks required across critical path management, pricing, range building, marketing, and trading activities for your assigned category
- Taking responsibility for the complete competitor and assortment analysis - working with supplier and internal teams to collate and deliver - events, marketing activities,samples (range building and assortment reviews)
- You will take pride in executing work in a right first time and accurate manner. You will be able to flex to the ebb and flow of seasonal demands, including supporting additional categories as the need arises
Essential skills/experience you'll need:
- Strong working knowledge of product development processes - in respective category areas; Home and Fashion
- Communicating, influencing and negotiating with a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent time management/prioritisation skills and approach to tasks in a project/milestone outlook - planning and reviewing work regularly and adapting to change
- Experience of working with range plans, critical path and assortment review and marketing nomination processes
- Demonstrates an innate passion for and understanding of Retail
Desirable skills/experience you may have:
- Experience in a Buying office or a Buying qualification would be an advantage
- Experience of using JL systems/tools - Range plan, Product Hub, Step, Google Suite
