Assistant Buyer

5 months ago


Burnley, United Kingdom The Original Factory Shop (Head Office) Full time

Established in 1969, The Original Factory Shop brings big brands at bargain prices to your local high street.

With stores nationwide, our colleagues work as one team and always have fun to bring our customers the thrill of a bargain. We care about our customers and colleagues and strive to get the job done; brilliantly to bringing you best big brands with up to 70% off across fashion, beauty, home & more.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to join our commercial team.

You will need to live within a commutable distance of our Burnley office, however we offer a flexible hybrid working policy whereby you can work remotely, with the current expectation of being in the office twice a week.

You will be responsible for:

- Accurately & efficiently create sku’s and raise purchase orders
- Order price labels & communicate all requirements to suppliers to ensure products arrive correctly
- Set up and maintain all filing systems for purchase orders
- Ensure RRP (Recommended retail prices) are received in writing from all suppliers and are carefully filed & can be readily identified
- Work closely with the buyer ensuring all critical path deadlines are met
- Communicate effectively and accurately on behalf of buyer with other areas of the business such as merchandising, QA and Marketing.
- Oversee the fitting and sealing of samples (create size specs, fit garments inline with Critical path, check and approve pre -production/ production samples)
- Sample Management (including labelling, logging, organising, preparing sample for buyers meetings)
- Comp shops and ongoing familiarity of the competition’s range
- Create fashion trend boards for buying meetings where required

What we are looking for:

- Experience fashion graduate, ideally from a design background.
- Strong organisation skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, both orally and in writing.
- Great accuracy and numerical skills
- Ability to input information accurately.
- Great Attention to detail
- Confident using Microsoft including Excel and Word

Benefits of The Original Factory Shop:

- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Birthday day off
- Colleague discount
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free parking at our Support Centre

For more information about The Original Factory Shop, please go to our website at:


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