Category Buying Assistant
Home Textiles
Oldham - Hybrid Working
Due to their ever-expanding growth our client, a supplier of beautiful home textiles now has an excellent opportunity for a Category Buying Assistant to join their fast paced team
You will be a highly analytical individual from either a Buying or Merchandising Administrator / Assistant role! You will be comfortable liaising with both customers and suppliers.
Job Purpose:
Responsible for preparing and analysing commercial data and market trends to support profitable sales growth of our customer and ourselves. Support the Category Manager to deliver a pipeline of new product for customer selection. Maintain required administration accurately and completely.
Responsibilities
Market / Competitor Understanding
* Understand what the competition are selling / pricing structures / marketing for given product areas.
Product Development
* Spot and development new products sales opportunities.
* Create development diaries and track and push internally and externally with the factories any developments.
* Samples management required for customer meetings.
Pricing
1. Costing for new factory designs
2. Cross Costing Current designs
3. Updating...