Buying Assistant

4 weeks ago


Syston, United Kingdom Dunelm Full time

Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.

At Dunelm, that’s what we do.

We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we've created makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.

Our approach to how we work has been to create and encourage an environment of “Feeling at Home Wherever You Work”, ensuring we can work where it is effective for us, and at the same time we are able to collaborate and connect regularly with our teams and networks, so we are offering a balance of time working from home, working in the store centres and other locations.

Would you like to take your first step in to a career in Buying?

We are currently recruiting for a Buying Assistant to provide efficient and effective administrative support to our Buying team.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Acting as a first point of contact for callers to the department and taking action as appropriate
- Ensuring all relevant procedures are followed and appropriate paperwork completed in relation to products
- Accurately inputting data for new articles, managing product launches from create forms to digital assets & web product data
- Producing key sales reports for Junior Buyer's and above
- Calculating costs on Far East imports and completing landed cost sheets
- Responsible for samples, calculating costs, tidying, organising and communicating target costs/product changes/orders/briefing artwork to suppliers
- Liaising with suppliers to collect data to enable new lines to be set up
- Communicating with new suppliers and ensuring new vendor set ups are completed accurately and with pace
- Completing regular comp shops
- Running weekly sales reports
- Any other general tasks such as photocopying and data entry
- Delivering accurate information in a timely manner
- Organising and working to deadlines

Our shared values of '
**act like owners**', '
**keep listening and learning**, '
**long term thinking**,and '
**strongertogether**' help ensure we are alwaysfinding better ways of doing things and spending our time focusing on what’simportant.

**Colleagues have the option to support their career development by completing a Level 4 apprenticeship qualification (company funded).


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