Buyers Assistant Womenswear

Buyers Assistant Womenswear

If you are looking to build your career within an expanding prestigous out of town retail business then this could be the opportunity for you.

What you will be doing
• Supporting your Buyer with effective upward management of critical path issues (weekly meetings to highlight any issues/ late approvals/ delays), proposing solutions.
• Work with Buyers on any quality and delivery issues, agree actions and solutions.
• Providing admin support for all buying processes
• Attending factory meetings with buyers to support range building and pre-season product selection/design meetings.
• Understand the buying calendar and the range building process and contribute to building a commercially balanced range through active participation in product strategy, competitive benchmarking, sales history, and creative influencing opportunities.
• Managing the current season samples, making sure they are developed and archived if no longer needed.
• Attending and contributing in fits sessions, alongside the design & buying team, ensuring highest priority in line with critical path management.
• Manage and maintain visual range planner.
• Deputise confidently and effectively if Buyer is absent.
• Have store awareness and deal with store product queries in a timely and professional manner.
• Sending tech packs off and in some cases creating tech packs for cross costing.
• Responsible for selecting and approving trims.
• Responsible for approving lap dip, strike offs and bulk standards in the Buyers absence.
• Ensure packaging & labelling for products are correct.
• Showing awareness of the current trends and competitors within the market
• Responsible for checking new in category weekly, supporting your buyer with weekly Trade actions.

More about you
• You are ambitious and looking to grow with the company, always striving for improvements in all aspects of the business, you’re innovative and forward thinking.
• You've studied a fashion related qualification, and this is your passion.
• Able to prioritise multiple deadlines and manage time effectively as this is a never-ending job and there will always be more to be done.
• You're a relationship builder and find communication easy with people at all levels.
• A keen eye for emerging trends and find inspiration everywhere.
• Always wanting to improve and learn, you'll need to be hungry to succeed.
• A keen eye for detail related to products, processes & systems.
• A team player. Someone who enjoys going above and beyond to help others in the team.
• You’re tenacious and have a positive ‘can do’ attitude in all things, at all times.