Assistant Buyer

7 months ago


Basingstoke, United Kingdom GAME Full time

Company Description

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

**Job Description**:

- Managing all aspects of your product area - including workflow, supplier interaction and relationships
- Delivering the content, you are responsible for - buying to budget, revenue, margin and market share targets across all channels, whilst also delivering stock and cash targets
- Maximising every opportunity to grow the market share, margin contribution and revenue generated by the content
- Working in collaboration with senior management and brand managers, to advance key areas of progression within trading terms negotiations
- Implementing a forward thinking and relevant customer centric plan that effectively delivers all commercial aspects of the products you buy, including digital
- Managing stock and cash against targets
- Managing relationships with suppliers to achieve best in industry, along with relevant internal departments
- Demonstrating and delivering planning to achieve effective use of time, professional execution of role and personal growth goals

**Qualifications**:

- Experience in a similar retail/commercial role delivering projects with a proven track record of success
- Customer focussed with excellent communication and relationship building skills
- Strong negotiation skills and commercial acumen
- Experience of being able to drive results, reach targets and achieve objectives
- Prepared to make their opinion forward, challenge new ways of doing things in a fast moving, ever changing industry.
- Ability to manage a heavy workload and at times conflicting priorities

Additional Information

An opportunity like this at Frasers is for the fearless. The potential is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

- ** Think without limits** - Think fast, fearlessly, and take the team with you.
- ** Own it** **and back yourself**:

- Own the basics, own your role and own the results.
- ** Be relevant - **Relevant** **to our people, our partners and the planet.


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