Assistant Buyer

Nutmeg, which is part of the Morrison’s group, is a family lifestyle brand that launched in 2013 and is now sold in all of our Morrisons stores and online. Nutmeg’s aim is to offer our customers great value products to love, live and feel good in. All ofour products are affordable, thoughtful, great quality and are designed to work better for people’s lives.

We’re looking for an Assistant Buyer to join the team for Nutmeg based from our head office in Coalville (Leicestershire) to support the buying team by assisting in developing, sourcing and buying a specific range of products that meets all company requestedrequirements whilst ensuring the smooth day to day running of the department.

You’ll assist in planning, sourcing and delivering a commercial and competitively priced product range. Developing effective working relationships with both suppliers and internal colleagues, taking some responsibility for the training and the developmentof the junior team members. Ultimately this will lead to you taking full responsibility and ownership for buying a designated area within the department you are working in.

In return for your hard work, you’ll get a great pension, private healthcare (applicable roles), 15% colleague discount and 10% for 2 friends/family, money off at over 850 retailers with My Perks, and much more.

What will I do as an Assistant Buyer at Nutmeg?
- Develop positive working relationships with suppliers.
- Build effective relationships with the marketing department, visual merchandising and PR teams to assist in developing strong and consistent marketing messages, visual merchandising strategies and brand image for the department whilst keeping the Buyer informed.
- Continually communicate with suppliers and internal departments about the status of orders, queries and issues to help to ensure the product critical path is kept up to date and accurate.
- Demonstrate Commercial Awareness - Ensure an awareness of the customer profile, current trends and competitors, whilst continually developing knowledge of all aspects of the supplier base.
- Ensure a customer focused knowledge of the varying market and trends by regular competitive and own store visits to help in assisting the Buyer to select and deliver a product range that is balanced and reflects customer requirements in terms of pricingand fashionability. Offer your own proactive thoughts and ideas to the Buyer. Produce Benchmarking
- Sample management - take ownership, ensuring all samples are kept tidy and correctly labelled. Correct samples are available for fit sessions, best sellers and all other meetings as required. All approval samples from initial sample to production sampleare received to correct specifications
- Responsible for all relevant administrative duties for the department, alongside preparing and managing any reports as requested by the department for meetings.
- Accurately create the orders, utilising internal systems within required time frames
- Review weekly sales performance and identify any opportunities and highlight any issues.

Key relationships you’ll maintain include:
Customers, Category Director of Clothing, Buyers, Merchandisers, Design Team, Technical Team, Retail Team, Suppliers, Head of Buying & Design, Head of Merchandising, Marketing/PR, Supply Chain.

About You

So you can hit the ground running in this role and be the best you can be, we’re looking for someone who can demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

- Fashion, design, business qualification.
- A passion for product and an eye for detail.
- Experience with a clothing retailer/supplier.
- Clear understanding of how to serve customer needs and requirements.
- Product Knowledge - have a clear and commercial understanding of garments and demonstrate a passion for product quality and design.
- Retail market knowledge - have a good understanding of all aspects of the buying, design, merchandising and quality processes.
- Creatively looking to develop new products as well as develop new markets and opportunities, showing a great eye for detail.
- Takes responsibility for own learning, keeping skills and knowledge up to date and sharing knowledge with others through mentoring.
- Ability to influence and relationship build

About The Company

At Morrisons we like to do things our own way. We believe in working in partnership with our communities, colleagues, suppliers and British farmers to provide our customers with the freshest food at great value for money. We’re also constantly innovating.We've our own-brand clothing range - Nutmeg.

Nutmeg, which is part of the Morrison’s group, is a family lifestyle brand that launched in 2013 and is now sold in all of our Morrisons stores. Nutmegs aim is to take a fresh approach to clothing by celebrating the joys of childhood through offering ourcustomers good, quality everyday clothes that are affordable, thoughtful and that work better for people’s lives. We want to develop and nurture talent within Nutmeg, where we have a diverse wealth of experience including backgrounds in designer, high streetand supermarket clothing. We sincerely hope you will enjoy working and becoming a part of the Nutmeg Team.