Buying Admin Assistant

4 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom N Brown Full time

**Job details**:

- Salary £18,000
- LocationManchester
- DisciplineApprenticeship
- Reference008285
- Contact NameEmerging Talent

We’re a top ten UK clothing and footwear digital retailer, with a home proposition. We serve our customers through distinct retail brands including JD Williams, Simply Be and Jacamo. We’re an experienced retailer having gained over 160 years of trading and we also have a financial services proposition, allowing our customers to spread the cost of shopping with us. We’re inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries, sustainable, as we strive to make as little impact on the planet and focused on the future, as we are ALWAYS looking for ways to develop our business and serve our customers better.

Our Vision as a business is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is therefore central to our culture. We’re committed to both building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all.

**The role**

We are looking for a Buyers Admin Assistant Apprentice to join our Leisure (Home) team within our Product division. The role reports to a Buyer/Senior Buyer, working together to deliver the best ranges for our customer, manages the administration of a given department ensuring all systems are kept up to date. The aim is to deliver a profitable customer centric range and provide day to day administrative support to the category. Alongside this, the role will require successfully completing the Level 3 Business Administration apprenticeship; an 18-month programme involving various training, coaching and individual projects to develop a highly transferable set of knowledge, skills and behaviours that can be applied in all sectors to be successful within a business and support your own progression towards management responsibilities in the future.

**What will you do as a Buyer’s Admin Assistant Apprentice**:

- Responsible for keeping information up to date and correct in all relevant systems and databases.
- Maintaining the critical path.
- Supporting Assistant Buyers with analysis of the fashion market and customer activity through competitive shops, sales and trend.
- Supporting weekly trade meetings through best seller reports.
- Maintenance of samples - chasing and booking in.
- Racking up samples with care and consideration for sign offs and range reviews.
- Ad hoc duties are also an essential daily part of the role as you are providing full administrative support to the buying team.
- With the support of your manager, dedicate the required 6 hours a week off the job training to complete the relevant apprenticeship activities.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Hybrid working and staggered start times to give you the flexibility you may need
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
- A range of financial wellbeing support
- 24 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 over the year
- Mental Health support both internally and externally via our wellbeing champions and counselling services
- Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- Colleague discount across all our N Brown Group brands and onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts
- Annual bonus scheme
- Paid volunteer time - N brown offer all colleagues a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice

**What experience and skills will you have?**
- Good administrative, communication and organisation skills
- A keen interest in fashion, retail and customer first
- Driven & motivated
- Retail experience desirable but not essential.

**Our promise to you**:
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.



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