Assistant Buyer

As Assistant Buyer you will be supporting the product development team in all aspects, from the initial concept stage through to completion ensuring the smooth running of the department.

Client Details

The client are a large online homewares retailer and genuine experts within their product field. Since starting with a small team, they have quickly grown to their new headquarters situated in Central London. Since launching the brand they've gone from strength to strength, picking up several awards along the way including a significant scoop in 2018 for their incredible product range.

Description

In this position as Assistant Buyer you will have full responsibility to assist in the full preparation and presentation of their core and seasonal collections. You will be heavily involved in the design, development and sourcing stages across each homewares category.

You will manage the buying critical path for all new product developments, ensuring product listings and logging each stage from order to delivery is checked, logged and reported back to the buyers.

Various reporting and training responsibilities including monitoring sales for the brand and assist in sales reports for the buyers.

Day to day administration tasks will include maintaining the existing and inputting new product codes, such as dimensions, order quantities and prices into the company database. Keep records up to date for pricing, confirmed agreed prices with suppliers and confirmed selling price with the buyer.

Profile

The ideal candidate will have several years' experience within a Buying Department whilst being extremely organised with a track record of managing detailed critical paths and programme management skills.

Must be able to demonstrate effective communication skills to all levels both within the business and also externally. Someone who is commercially aware and able to pick up on market trends is key to this role as well as a keen eye for detail.

Experience with FE and EU Suppliers would be hugely beneficial.

Job Offer

The role as Assistant Buyer offers the opportunity to work for a dynamic company within brand new offices in the heart of London. If you're looking for a forward thinking company and want to be part of their rapid expansion whilst teaming up with some amazing partners and winning awards along the way, this company can offer you all of that. £20,000 - £24,000 basic salary, dependant on experience.