Assistant Buyer

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Currys Full time

**Assistant Buyer (Tablets)**:
**London - Hybrid Working**
**Permanent**
**Full Time**
**Grade 3**

Our passion at Currys is helping everyone enjoy the latest tech. We’re proud of the service levels we provide for our customers - online, in-store or in their homes. And it’s all down to our people, 30,000+ capable and committed colleagues, learning together, growing together, making us amazing and celebrating the wins.

We are a market leader in the Windows Computing hardware area for Tablets. However, there still remains a huge opportunity for us to continue to grow, and we are increasingly looking to innovate and differentiate our range and proposition across the area coupled with a thorough understanding of our customers' needs and reasons to purchase. We work closely with the biggest global brands, including Samsung, Lenovo and Amazon and play a key role in helping support the development and launch of the product roadmap into the UK market.

As an Assistant Buyer, you’ll get to kick start your buying career in this fast-paced role. You'll support our Buyer/Senior Buyer to bring a fantastic range of products to our customers. With the chance to help negotiate with suppliers, you'll get hands-on experience at the heart of a highly skilled team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Helping to manage supplier relationships in line with the category strategy
- Selecting and negotiating product ranges and pricing
- Keeping tabs on the competition so we can set competitive prices
- Analysing trading performance and recommending actions to drive our business

Required Skills/Experience:

- Experience of being part of a buying function (as an Assistant buyer or Administrator) or a great working knowledge of Tablets
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills
- To be organised, analytical and numerate with good judgment
- Strong commercial awareness and a sense of customer needs

We’re one team and we celebrate all of the great things you do. One way we show our gratitude is by giving you access to a range of lifestyle benefits including:

- Competitive pension scheme
- Access to discretionary company bonus scheme
- Life Assurance
- Staff discounts and offers
- Hybrid working; arrangements will depend on your role and business requirements. You could be working from our primary Currys Campus at Waterloo (WeWork), meeting & collaborating at Currys regional workspaces or working from home

Beyond that, we'll be with you every step of the way, enabling you to get the most out of your role. We're building a team that brings technology to people, making their lives better, easier and fuller, and you can be part of it.

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