Assistant Buyer

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Mountain Warehouse Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and resourceful Apparel Assistant Buyer to join our team at Mountain Warehouse. As an Assistant Buyer, you will play a key role in growing our business and adding value to our team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assist in seasonal range plan development, analysing customer buying patterns, forecasting sales and predicting future trends.
  • Buy for three key territories, including the UK, EU and North America.
  • Work with your Head of Buying to maximize profits and provide a commercially viable range of merchandise at competitive prices.
  • Assist in regularly reviewing stock, sales and orders, and react with necessary urgency to ensure sales, stock & profit targets are achieved.
  • Maintain relationships with suppliers.
  • Liaise with other departments within the organisation to ensure projects are completed.
  • Participate in promotional activities, helping the buying and merchandising team to identify slow moving stock, suggest markdowns or promotions, and coordinate promotions and clearance events in store.
  • Create style books for products, identify when to update trim labels, fabrications and packaging, and liaise with graphic designer to ensure a consistent brand image.
  • Manage the critical path, monitoring all orders from initial product development through to delivery, ensuring the smooth running of the development process, maintaining delivery schedules and key deadlines throughout.
  • Manage sample process, ensuring all designs and fabrications are executed correctly, meeting brand requirements.
  • Lab dip and trim approvals and feed back to suppliers.
  • Train and mentor the BAA in the team.
  • Approve PTS for shipments.
  • Attend fit meetings with QC, making suggestions on fit, styling, trims etc., and sign off sample.

Requirements

  • You will have relevant experience at Assistant Buyer level within an own buy retailer.
  • Experience of fully managing the critical path for your department.
  • Awareness of competitors and help to try and keep MW the best value on the high street.
  • Confident approach to offer suggestions on the type and quantity of product for the department given the budgeted OTB.
  • Good interpersonal skills – able to build and manage relationships with colleagues and suppliers, communication is key at all times.
  • Strong IT skills, most importantly in Excel or equivalent.
  • Commercial and keeps up to date and aware of market trends, changes in demand.
  • Able to fully understand customer needs and demands (e.g. price, quality, availability).
  • Strong time management skills and able to prioritize as this is a never-ending job and there will always be more to be done.

What's in it for you?

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Holiday allowance.
  • 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends.
  • Pension scheme.

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