Assistant Buyer

5 months ago


Burgess Hill, United Kingdom WoolOvers & Pure Collection Group Full time

We are a West Sussex based (1 hour from London/ 20 minutes from Brighton) 100% natural lifestyle brand.

**Assistant Buyer**

WoolOvers is a British lifestyle brand, quietly designing and selling quality natural knitwear since 1989. We began selling our colourful women's and men's jumpers at Equestrian and Country Shows all over the UK, with a catalogue and website soon following. Our product offer has continued to grow and we now offer accessories and jersey as well as our classic knitwear, and we recently introduced a range for the home, too. The cosiest cashmere, the comfiest cotton, the finest merino wool... we believe in doing it naturally. We also sell super-soft sheepskin accessories and leather goods.

We are looking for a talented individual ideally with some multi product apparel experience. You should have a passion for beautiful natural and sustainable product and love the process of working in an in-house designed brand, delivering a commercial range with your Buyer and working closely with our worldwide supply chain.

**The Role**

Assisting the Buyers in providing strong multi category product development, you will play a vital role in the developing and maintaining relationships with suppliers, managing the detail of the product development process, overseeing the sealing of samples, overseeing the critical path and working closely with our Creative team in handovers for our all important regular catalogues and ecommerce shooting. It’s a busy and rewarding role.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support the buyer on a day to day basis ensuring department is smooth running
- Supporting the product development, including fabric or yarn sourcing and selection, print development and trim selection, closely involved in fit process and ensuring on time shoot samples.
- Ensure all samples are chased, managed, labelled and organised in the correct locations, at the correct time.
- Critical Path management from sample placement through to delivery into the warehouse
- Maintain excellent communication with suppliers and problem solve issues
- Organise the monthly pagination meetings and manage the shoot handover process from beginning to end
- Working with many different departments in the business such as Design, Quality Assurance, Merchandising and Creative/Ecommerce to support range building and support our Customer Service with product information.

**Core Skills**
- A passion for clothing. Must have experience in apparel and be excellent at detail.
- Strong analytical skills and excellent time management
- Able to cope under pressure, multi task, with the ability to work on own initiative.
- Excellent at building and maintaining cross functional relationships.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm, a passion for product and a positive “can do” attitude.

**The Extras**
- 60% staff discount
- Events to support charities
- Free gym membership
- Free Breakfast
- Regular staff events throughout the year and Christmas Party

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Gym membership

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £24,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Burgess Hill: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Assistant Buyer: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Assistant Buyer - WoolOvers Ltd


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