Buyers Assistant

Here at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Buyers Assistant to join our Buyers team based at our Head Office in Carlisle.

If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you.

As well as being part of an exciting and dynamic team you will also have the opportunity to gain an industry recognised qualification within your first 18 months if you wish to do so.

Main responsibilities include:

- Seasonal Sample Range Management - all collections/all critical paths/all departments.
- Diary Management and awareness - key meetings/critical paths.
- Booking Bought Sample Process
- Returning Bought Sample process.
- Visual Range Plan creation.
- Travel and Business Trips - hotels/trains and planes. Booking responsibility.
- Range Manual Stores
- working with the Marketing Dept + Merchandising + Design.
- Windows - sample provision and data recording.
- Photography - Web - Sample provision.
- Corp Card Maintenance + Expenses management.
- Sample Sale and Warehouse Archive Room maintenance.
- Shipping Samples - merchandising requirement.
- Focus Groups - team effort to prepare and manage the research process re sample preparation/transportation/and so on.
- Supplier samples - recording intake date.
- Research - fabric dispatch for cross sourcing.
- Colour Standards - Document creation for dispatch to Suppliers after Sign Off.
- Prototype File management - Design Prototype documents. All collections.
- Trim Spec Creation
- Comp Shop Reports - Written and Photographic
- Postal Procedures