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Summary
Are you passionate about beauty and eager to start your career in the retail industry? We're looking for a highly organised Buying Admin Assistant (BAA) to join our dynamic Beauty team. In this role, you'll support the Buying team to create and deliver product ranges that resonate with our customers. You'll be at the heart of the action, helping to manage product development, analysing market trends, and ensuring our collections are both innovative and commercially successful.
If you're detail-oriented, excited by the prospect of working with a leading retail brand, and ready to dive into the fast-paced world of Buying, this could be the perfect role for you.
What you'll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
* Analysing beauty market trends, competitor products, and historical sales data to compile and present findings that support the development of commercially successful product ranges.
* Working closely with the Buying team to assist in the development of fashion-forward products, ensuring that each item aligns with customer needs and market trends.
* Organising and managing the daily sample process, ensuring timely and accurate tracking of products.
* Assisting in monitoring the critical path to ensure that all product development milestones are met.
* Building strong relationships with internal teams such as Design, Merchandising, and Sourcing, as well as external suppliers, to support the delivery of our product ranges.
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
* A genuine passion for beauty and a keen interest in retail.
* Already working as a Buyers Admin Assistant in retail - ideally within beauty!
* Experience working in the beauty industry.
* Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
* Strong analytical skills, with the ability to draw insights from data to support product decisions.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships across the business.
* Proactive and flexible, able to adapt to changing demands and take initiative where needed.
* Familiarity with or willingness to learn IT systems and tools used in buying and product development.
Everyone's welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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