Assistant Buyer

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom PRETTYLITTLETHING Full time

**The role**

We are looking for an Assistant Buyer to join our ever growing team As an Assistant Buyer at PLT you're innovative, driven and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You're responsible for driving the success of the dresses department within PLT. This includes constantly reviewing the critical path to ensure that department targets as well as deliveries are met on time and in line with the brand's strategy.

**Your team**

Here at PrettyLittleThing, we strive to fly the flag for love, equality, and acceptance, working to use our platform to spread nothing but good vibes. Regardless of race, gender, sexuality, style or budget - there’s something for everyone We want our customers to feel confident in the way they dress and to embrace the way they look. #EveryBODYinPLT is our community that is all about body positivity, equality and supporting each other.

**What you'll be doing**
- Managing a BAA on critical path and OPO management to ensure department targets are achieved and deliveries on time
- Ownership of fit sessions and actioning fit comments direct to suppliers
- Negotiating cost prices to achieve best prices and meet department BIM
- Understanding open costings including fabric prices, consumption and fit amend implications
- Collating the final sign off pack with the support of the JB/Buyer
- Attending supplier meetings to develop and source new development as well as reviewing OPO and any production concerns
- Responsible for weekly OPO meetings alongside AM, BAA and MAA.
- Contributing to development across category to assist the JB/Buyer with range building
- Management of sample development tracker and chasing in development to meet deadlines
- Responsible for managing and developing BAA and their training
- Ownership of monthly marketing pack
- Understanding of the market place, target customer and key competitors
- Awareness of department KPI’s and department strategy
- Understands department strategy, frameworks and spend plans with the support of buyer/JB and merch team
- Accountable for checking new in product daily to ensure all details of each product are correct online

Trading:

- Understanding of the weekly trade pack with contribution to department best and worst
- Contributing to weekly trade meetings with suggestions on how to react to department trading
- Understanding and reacting to daily trading reports
- Accountable for achieving cost price reductions of 1st time rebuys
- Carries out weekly comp shops and supports the BAA in collating the comp shop report for management
- Working closely with buyer and garment techs to react to high returning lines

Creative:

- Contributing to department product development with an awareness of department best and worst and seasonal trends
- Generates ideas to support department strategy through product, studio and VM
- Daily review of department galleries to ensure product is being shot correctly

**Working with us**

We don’t call ourselves the PLT family for nothing - you can feel the buzz and atmosphere as soon as you walk into the office. Creativity flows from person to person and across departments, helping us create the empowered movement of love, inclusion, equality and acceptance behind our brand. We encourage everyone to be themselves, and if you bring your best self to work every day, you truly have the power to make a difference and contribute to our brand's success.

**More about you**
- You consistently manage your workload effectively, trusted to make actions without prompt
- Your approachable to your whole team and external parties and always ready to help and support acting as a role model for junior members
- You accept feedback and are willing to adapt personal approach to achieve better communication as well as increased communication with senior management
- You bring your best everyday, consistently focused and positive
- You’re a keen learner and always push yourself to find out more about the business industry and company
- Your super adaptable and find it easy to switch it up when the business needs
- You can delegate and share workload to the team effectively
- Your always ahead at spotting trends and commercial wins for the business

**Why join us**

PLT Perks

We know that as a company we are only as good as the people that we employ. We know our employees work tirelessly to make PLT the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

- Free parking
- 25 days holiday
- Free on-site gym with daily classes (due to current restrictions, live PT sessions)
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Company shares schemes - including a ' Save As You Earn' scheme
- 40% staff discount (including PLT, Boohoo, Boohoo MAN, Nasty Gal, Coast, Warehouse, Misspap)
- Monthly social events (including pay day drinks, Employee Appreciation Day etc.)
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
- Flexible working hours
- Cycle to work scheme
- Childcare support through the Government

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