Junior Buyer

**About you**
- Past buying experience would be beneficial
- Passionate about home interiors, furniture, or homeware retail sector
- Numerate with good analytical skills
- Strong organisational skills
- High levels of attention to detail
- Excellent PC skills, in particular Excel, Google drive
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to build relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders
- A determination to succeed whilst showing empathy
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment and to tight deadlines
- Resilient, self-motivated and able to work well under pressure
- Confident, assertive and round thinking

Experience/Qualifications
- Genuine interest in Upholstery
- Excel/Word/Powerpoint

**About the role**
Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

- Full ownership of product set up, maintaining accurate data entry
- Maintain the new product development critical path to ensure new product launches on time
- Complete competitor comp shops and become an expert in market knowledge and identify product gaps and opportunities
- Meeting preparation for all Product Sign Off meetings, including presentation and sample management
- Support the Buyers with price negotiations
- Ensure samples are requested on time for new product photography
- Engage with stores and digital on new product launches by providing engagement training packs. Including ASM meeting.
- Support the business on product queries
- Develop a strong understanding of the systems and recommend ways to improve
- Support the Buyers with supplier sample review meetings
- Build and maintain a strong relationship with suppliers
- Work with cross functional teams across the business including Quality, Marketing, Online, Photography and Commercial department
- Retail pricing ranges ensuring accuracy and working to tight deadlines
- Checking the website and brand pages for accuracy once live
- Support the Buyers in managing stocked product ranges
- Support Buyers on ad hoc tasks and requests

**About DFS**
We’re a family of individuals passionate about building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We love to celebrate and encourage our people to be their true selves. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital state, or disability status. Everyone is welcome

**Benefits**
- We want you to really feel at home at DFS, with the support you need to do your best work, as well as a range of great benefits:

- A huge 30% colleague discount, plus 15% friends & family discount across our Group (DFS, Sofology, Dwell)
- Holiday allowance - the time you need to rest and relax (and the longer you’re with us, the more time you’ll get)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave to give you the time you need to settle in with your new family member
- Access to a range of high street & online discounts from: Sainsbury’s, ASOS, Currys PC World, IKEA, John Lewis and more.
- Discounted Gym and Cinema memberships to help you unwind
- Progression and Development opportunities to grow your skills
- Group Pension Scheme
- Group Sharesave Scheme
- Life Assurance & Company Sick Pay

Job Reference: DFS03253