Assistant Buyer Homewares

2 weeks ago


Thame, United Kingdom Downtown Recruitment Full time

1. Job Title: Assistant Buyer Homewares

Reports to: Senior Homewares Buyer

  1. Company
  • A leading mail order and online retailer, which operates across three brands in both the UK, and France

3. Main Function of Job

  • Managing a range of homewares under the guidance of the line manager. Supporting the Senior Buyer in any delegated tasks and working as part of the wider Buying team to deliver 2 catalogue ranges annually.

4. Location Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

5. Main Duties

  • With direction from the Senior Buyer, sourcing a range of products based on the analysis provided and Company objectives, including the required input margin, quality, and relevance to the brand. Homewares to cover domestic textiles, tabletop, decorative accents, and toiletries. Approx 250 per season including core repeat lines as well as new (roughly 50% repeats)
  • Liaising with suppliers, managing the supplier relationship and ensuring the efficient ordering, logging and returning samples for each selection.
  • Negotiating cost prices and terms for the products falling under their responsibility, setting commercial retail prices, and ensuring lines are ready for ordering to the critical path
  • Gaining an in-depth knowledge of competitors and relevant retail trends
  • Logging all relevant product information on our selection sheets accurately
  • Organizing samples for selection, range reviews, and photo shoots
  • Writing detailed and accurate product descriptions for the catalogues and websites
  • Dealing with any warehouse or customer queries to resolve any quality issues or provide additional information.

6. Profile

  • Strong numeracy skills, able to understand sales analysis provided by Merchandising
  • Creative and commercial, able to understand our older customer demographic and source/ develop products that will appeal to them and that reflect the USP’s of both brands
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Team player, happy to work together on joint projects
  • Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks at one time
  • Ability to work under pressure and stick to deadlines
  • Good standard of written English
  • Experience in using Excel
  • A positive and can-do attitude
  • Eager to learn
  • Driving license as we are in a rural location


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