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Assistant Buyer

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London, United Kingdom The White Company Full time

**Our Role**:To assist the Buyer with ensuring that sales and profit targets are met through the development of a commercial, well balanced product range in keeping with Brand objectives. To take responsibility for a specific product areas/ranges. and manage junior team members

**What you'll be doing***:**Product Development**:

- To assist the Buyer in building a balanced, commercial and sufficiently innovative product range suitable for the needs of all business channels.
- With guidance from the Buyer to take responsibility for developing a specific product area/ranges.
- To source new products and negotiate prices for sign off by the Buyer prior to selection.
- To propose new and creative ideas for product development.
- Assist in creating initial product strategy packs for new season development.
- To ensure that all product line lists are product sheets are correctly maintained on the system in line with departmental deadlines, to challenge where necessary.
- To have an understanding of cost price management, with particular reference to imported products and exchange rates.
- To ensure efficient and commercial sample, fabric swatch management on the department across all our sampling requirements.
- To approve bulk fabric, yarns, packaging according to brand guidelines.
- To ensure that the key assumptions behind the critical path are well managed to ensure all critical dates are achieved. To flag business risk in a pro-active manner as a result of process controls.
- To work with the QA Department to ensure that any potential quality issues are resolved prior to full production, to identify and manage risk.

**Supplier Management**
- To maintain regular communication lines with suppliers to tackle issues in a timely manner.To escalate issues as necessary to the Buyer in order to protect this partnership.
- To ensure that our supplier details are fully up to date, and to assess whether their capacity to supply our business and achieve growth/brand objectives is in place.
- Assist the Buyer in managing the supply base strategy, in a commercial way
- Manage the preparation of product brief sheets in a timely manner and with a realistic and commercial approach, challenging required content.
- Manage the co-ordination and development of all samples and necessary information to enable selection meetings to run efficiently and to ensure deadlines are met.
- To provide constructive feedback to suppliers after selection meetings on samples.
- Undertake supplier visits and review meetings to improve knowledge of the business and to improve supplier relationships and manage performance.
- To ensure that suppliers accept and adhere to our supplier manual and terms.

**Commercial Awareness**
- To undertake regular store visits - ideally at least every two months.
- To undertake competitor visits on a regular basis and feedback any relevant points for product development.
- To have a good understanding of the target customer and emerging trends.
- To consistently deliver excellent standards of customer service, to be pro-active in seeking customer feedback from all business channels.
- To understand the key sales, profit and margin drivers across the business and the impact of your role on these.
- To develop a robust understanding of the weekly pack and sales by line reports, in order to propose trading actions, repeats and markdowns and to identify opportunities across all channels.
- To work with the Buyer and Merchandising team to review line level performance and agree decisions on which lines to continue or discontinue.
- To present best and worst product at meetings with evaluation on performance.

**Analytical support**
- To prepare appropriate analysis to support product, retail and Direct performance reviews.
- To develop a thorough working knowledge of the Dynamics system and assist in the maintenance of the system.
- To ensure we maintain accurate and tidy filing systems at all times.

**Management, Training and Development**
- To continually review processes and controls, initiating improvements in best practise as necessary.
- To assist in the development and training of the BA, identifying areas of ‘stretch’.
- To manage the BA on a day to day basis ensuring accuracy and efficiency in their work.
- To adopt a positive and proactive approach to training and development, to participate fully in all team related activities. To work closely with other Buying and Merchandising teams to identify best practise.
- To ensure that stores, web team and call centre receive product communication as necessary, challenge opportunities to improve sales performance.

**Our Equality Diversity and Inclusion statement of commitment**:At the White company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is