Buyer’s Admin Assistant

**Buyer’s Admin Assistant**

**Swimwear, Lingerie & Sports**

**THE ROLE**

This is an exciting opportunity to join Pour Moi as a Buyer’s Admin Assistant, across multiple categories, a role key to the development & growth of our product ranges.

**ABOUT US**

From when we sold our very first bra way back in 2005, to today when we sell one approximately every 30 seconds, passion and playfulness is at the heart of everything we do.

Our direct-to-consumer operation is growing by over 50%, but that’s not the only thing about Pour Moi that’s expanding Our range has grown along with us to include swimwear, clothing, sportswear, nightwear and hosiery, with exciting new developments planned for future seasons.

With our buying, design, technical, merchandising, marketing and sales departments based in our sunny Brighton offices, we have a blue-chip wholesale partner portfolio that includes Next, Very, and Bare Necessities.

Our predicted annual turnover is £32 million, making us one of the leading brands in lingerie and swimwear. With sales increasing year on year it means we need more brilliant people who share our passion, to join in the next part of our story.

Mission: to make our customers feel confident and sexy in their own skin, by delivering a wardrobe full of fun, fizz and feel-good vibes. With an uplifting personality weaved into every garment, we’ll take care of the fashion, you just feel your fabulous

**THE ROLE**

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Support the Swimwear & Lingerie buying team by ensuring the administration of the departmental buying function is operating effectively
- Be aware of the overall business strategy. Work with the Buying / Design team to build on the strategy within the remit of the BAA role.
- Lead sample management;
- Ensure all samples are chased, managed, labelled and in the correct location.
- Approval, fit & photo shoot sample organisation & preparation.
- Collating & preparing meeting samples, ensuring samples arrive on time.
- Organisation of showrooms ensuring that all samples are present and the showrooms are well presented.
- Requesting & posting samples for wholesale meeting
- Filing fabric swatches
- Supporting the buying function in overseeing the organisation of the product lifecycle
- To create and maintain department supplier critical paths ensuring deadlines are met
- Daily liaison with suppliers on the status of sample development
- Maintaining excellent communication with supplier base, identifying any issues and taking appropriate action
- Work with wholesale reps to answer queries about product information and sample requests. Creating & sending line sheets & catalogues to sales reps
- Checking products are showing on the website correctly, including product linking.
- Learning our internal PIM system & ensuring system information is accurate
- Responsible for loading all new styles to company system correctly
- Updating relevant pictorials & internal documents
- Complete comp shops to understand our competitors & market identifying opportunities. Plus carrying out pricing comp shops & feeding back to the team
- Support Garment tech in fit sessions by organising samples for the meeting & writing notes
- Work with buying team to review approvals and contact a suppliers in a timely manner
- Communicating with sales & marketing team to order in photoshoot samples
- Responsible for keeping photography tracker up to date, learning & taking mannequin photography & uploading this into internal systems. Assisting on photoshoots.

**SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**:

- Awareness of current and future trends, knowledge of brands appropriate to target market and understanding of what is happening in retail
- Organisation skills, able to use initiative and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Numerical competency
- Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with colleagues, suppliers and others at all levels.
- Keen attention to detail
- Good teamwork skills a willingness to participate as a full team member
- Previous system experience is desired or clear ability to learn systems

**Personal traits**:

- Positive, Passionate & Proactive
- A dynamic, passionate self-starter who can prioritise their own workload and take full accountability for all aspects of their role
- Excellent prioritisation skills with the ability to manage a fast paced workload
- A team player with a can do attitude who is willing to go the extra mile to ensure work is completed on time and to the highest standards
- A confident communicator, who can clearly articulate credible opinions based on facts & challenge and influence key stakeholders across the business

**In return, we offer excellent benefits, including**:

- A competitive salary (Salary from £24k P.A)
- A warm, friendly team environment
- Central offices in Brighton
- 25 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Exclusive discounts

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