Location: Manchester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Ladieswear
Job Ref: TGN5226
The Company
A fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to work for a Ladies Fashion Retailer who have ambitious plan to grow the business – Hybrid
The successful candidate will work closely to support the Buyer and wider team to ensure that sales, stock and margin targets are achieved. You will have bundles of passion and energy to successfully drive and contribute to our ranges.
Benefits
- Flexible working culture, adopting a hybrid working approach
- 25 days holiday rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- 50% staff discount
- Health cash plan
- Long service awards
Some of the key responsibilities include:
- Building relationships with suppliers as well as Buying, Merchandising and Technology teams demonstrating good communication skills.
- Engage with the Creative, Marketing and Ecommerce teams to ensure productive relationships.
- Assist the Buyer to adapt styles relevant to your area, ensuring regular competitive comp shops are completed to support any suggestions.
- Lead critical path meetings within the team, including presenting to the Buyer and Buying Manager. Being proactive by highlighting any potential issues and reacting quickly.
- Develop a range with the Buyer to attract our target customer, ensuring the best price and quality.
- Analysis of sales and performance for direct and retail, to enable trade reactions to be implemented where required.
- All day-to-day administration required to assist the Buyer and ensure the efficient buying of product.
- Being commercially aware of competitors and their seasonal product and price changes.
- Highly organised managing key diary dates coming up, to ensure deadlines are met.
- Management of trainee assistant buyer delegating workload to help with running the department efficiently
The Successful Candidate will:
- Have 1 – 2 years’ experience at Assistant Buyer level.
- Natural ability to identify future fashion trends and a real passion for product.
- Have an in-depth knowledge of the current market.
- Have an eye for detail.
- Strong communication skills
- Microsoft office skills, especially Excel
- Experience in fashion buying is essential.
- Some knowledge of basic fabrics preferred.
- Experience working with print, preferred.