JOB TITLE: Assistant Buyer
HOURS: 40 hours per week
LOCATION:Hybrid:Autonomy to plan your time working from home or the office (Uxbridge) that is in the business and your role’s best interest with a minimum guide of twice per month
SALARY: £28,000 - £30,000
About us :
Do you want the opportunity to join a fast-growing business and make a real difference?
We are a passionate team with a shared purpose and values. We believe everybody with a fuller bust should have the confidence and freedom to live life without limits. We live by our core values and are all committed to driving the business forward and to WOW our customers at every opportunity.
These are exciting times for the company with double digit growth over recent years continuing as we grow our UK and international markets.
We also won a Draper's Award for "Best Place to Work."
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Assistant Buyer with a passion for lingerie & swimwear to join our small friendly team and embrace the opportunity to make a real difference in our business.
About the role :
As Assistant Buyer, you will be working with the design, merchandising and production teams to plan and deliver our internal brand ranges of D-K cup lingerie and swimwear. Reporting into the Head of Buying and Merchandising, you must be commercially astute and have great communication and negotiating skills. You will:
* Negotiate cost prices with factories, setting target prices
* Support the Production Assistant, when required in the management of factory critical path, ensuring deadlines are met and escalate issues to Head of B&M
* Confirm and negotiate order placement deadlines with factories and communicated to wider team
* Liaise between Merchandisers and factories to ensure all factory forecasts are up to date, communicating any changes
* With direction from the Head of B&M, support in sourcing and onboarding of new factories
* Prepare relevant documents for all design and sign off meetings: range plan, pricing architectures, colour selections, product phasing (drop plans)
* Create pricing strategies with an understanding of target intake margins for both wholesale and ecommerce channels, and competitor pricing architectures
* Present product and category sales performance in trade and company breakfast meetings, highlighting risks and opportunities and proposals to maximise / mitigate
* Manage, motivate, and support Production Assistant and Production Admin Assistant
* Propose improvements to existing departmental processes
About you :
You will have the following qualifications / experience:
* Successfully held an Assistant Buyer level role, within fashion retail, preferably within lingerie / swimwear (but not essential)
* Have experience in working with and negotiating with Far East Suppliers
* Experience in people management
* Strong analytical and data analysis skills
* High proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
* Motivated and dynamic with an ability to work collaboratively within a small team
* Awareness of lingerie market and trends
* Must be eligible to work in the UK
You should be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be eager to deliver the best possible experience to our customers.
What we offer:
* Remote/Hybrid working (but within a reasonable commutable distance to Uxbridge)
* Company auto-enrol pension scheme
* Medicash Employee Assistance Programme from your first day (Includes GP Appointments and Prescription Services, Health and Wellbeing Support, Digital Physiotherapy)
* Health Care Scheme (with AXA, after 2 years’ service)
* Generously discounted lingerie
* Annual leave starting at 20 days that increases each year to a maximum of 25 days.
* Gifted half day working day holiday to celebrate your Birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve!
* A fun and inclusive working environment, with a team who are passionate about their role and how they contribute to the business.
How to apply:
Please send your CV together with a covering letter telling us why you are the right person for us. Please include one interesting fact about you NOT on your CV!
We look forward to hearing from you.
We will contact you to arrange an interview if successful. No agencies please.
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