Buying Assistant in Slough

Join Superdrug Head Office - Make a Real Difference Every Day!

Location: East Croydon

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

Salary: Competitive

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities. We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun. Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit… A day includes:

• Interacting with a variety of stakeholders including suppliers and colleagues across Buying, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Marketing and Stores
• Managing promotional activity and loading offers onto our systems
• Supporting the business to effectively deliver the end to end promotional process including POS sign off and promotional loading
• Assist with the smooth implementation of new product setup, including checking retail and cost prices
• Providing accurate reporting for weekly trade and on request
• Proactively resolve queries and escalating where necessary
• Collaborate with the Marketing team to implement buyer led marketing promotion plans and strategies developed by the buying team which adhere to legislation and brand guidelines
• Help with the review and evaluation of the effectiveness of promotions
• Producing communications for stores and ensuring teams have the information they need.
• Creating reports and analysing data for sales and category meetings.
• Supporting the development of more efficient ways of working and helping improve existing processes
• Being the go-to person who keeps everything organised and running smoothly behind the scenes
• Always seek out fresh ways to work through technology and/or AI that can boost the business and move things forward.
• Actively developing your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs

This job is for you if:

• You are health and beauty obsessed and love staying up to date with the latest trends
• You’re resilient and would thrive in a fast-paced, everchanging environment
• You know you add value through your ability to build great collaborative relationships
• You understand the importance of your role in the business and take pride in your attention to detail
• You’re ambitious and eager to learn the first step in the buying journey
• You are motivated by delivering results and can easily work to deadlines
• You get satisfaction through seeing the products for the category you support out on store shelves for our customers to buy
• Your adaptable approach means you can easily pick up a new way of working or process
• You’re curious and can challenge where you see an opportunity for us to do better
• Committed to join in, have some fun and celebrate everyone’s hard work
• Builds great working relationships based on trust, respect and takes into account others needs
• Regularly asks for feedback and uses it to improve and grow
• Breaks down problems into smaller, manageable steps for easier resolution.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Excellent organisational and communication skills: written and verbal
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work to deadline and prioritise workload
• Able to work both following process and on own initiative
• Flexible and adaptable
• Team Player
• Confident energetic approach
• Excellent PC skills – Microsoft Office packages especially Excel
• A passion for developing a career in Buying

Here's what's in it for you:

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
• Come and be part of something special!