Fashion Buying Assistant

5 days ago

London, United Kingdom Glassworks London Full time

Founded in London, in 2010, Glassworks is a fresh London fashion brand totally independent, style-obsessed and passionate believers in bricks-and-mortar boutiques as well as streamlined digital shopping. Our design-led stores and website are refreshed weekly with small runs of completely new fashion meaning a constant feed of exciting new stuff to try on, helped along by the most dedicated and on it staff-turned-stylists on the planet. With the recent re-launch of our ecommerce site and first retail opening outside of London, we are focused on scaling our existing channels whilst pursuing additional store openings.

**THE ROLE**

We are seeking a detail-oriented Fashion Buying Assistant to support our buying and merchandising team. This role is ideal for an individual with a passion for retail, strong analytical skills, and the ability to stay highly organised whilst meeting tight deadlines. You will be responsible for assisting with all day-to-day buying administrative tasks, preparing reporting packs for all product related teams, and ensuring smooth operations within the department.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**Create reporting packs for the design and buying/merchandising teams to support the seasonal buy cycle and weekly range reviews.- Attend weekly buying reviews and translate all notes into highly accurate purchase orders.- Manage new SKU creation including product naming, pricing and product attribute selection.- Maintain the in-house cloud-based product information management system of existing SKUs, ensuring all product attributes are accurate and supporting the Ecommerce Manager with attribute management (including SEO-optimized descriptions) as required.- Oversee purchase order communication with the Korean production team, ensuring seamless workflow and timely updates.- Conduct thorough inspections of new product designs to verify product names/descriptions and maintain database accuracy.- Assist in compiling and distributing internal seasonal trend forecasts to inform buying decisions.- Request, track, and organize swatches and samples, ensuring the sample library remains well-structured and easily accessible.- Update price architecture by category on a bi-annual basis, ensuring adjustments align with market trends and business objectives.

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**-
- You must have a keen understanding of current fashion trends to support the senior team in trend reporting.- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) is required as well as some experience using cloud-based computer systems.- You must be an honest, hard-working self-starter with great organisational and administrative skills and a keen eye for detail.- You must possess excellent written and verbal communication to liaise between internal teams and external suppliers.- Proficiency in Korean is a plus for liaising with our production team in Korea but **is not** required.

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