Buying Assistant

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Fortnum & Mason Full time

**Role Purpose**:
Reporting to one of the Fresh Buyers, this role is key to ensuring the Fresh & Bakery Buying Team runs smoothly.

The role is responsible for managing and maintaining product set up and pricing; pulling sales data, managing supplier relationships and in store tastings, coordinating with marketing and online for new product launches, arranging samples and transit tests for photoshoots and NPD, raising purchase requisitions, sorting out invoice queries and managing the new product development tracker and critical path.

**Key interfaces**:
Fresh & Bakery Buyers, Marketing, Merchandising, Online, Retail, Hospitality, VM, Warehouse, Suppliers

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Manage and maintain product set up of all products we sell ensuring the essential information is stored in the system and that prices are maintained regularly.
- Manage the AYR and seasonal range plans and the web range plan (WRP) for the department ensuring all products are captured allowing full visibility of the correct ranges for each location.
- Manage in store sampling with suppliers to ensure we have a bustling foodhall throughout the year.
- Coordinate with Online, Marketing and merchandising on new product launches and seasonal changes in our range.
- Manage and coordinate supplier samples and team tastings with hospitality to review potential new products.
- Managing invoices for the department by liaising with suppliers to query costs.
- Manage the new product development process and the critical path workbook, ensuring key stakeholders stick to critical paths.
- Collating weekly trade reports to update the business with the department’s weekly performance.

**Role Specific Criteria (Experience/Behaviours/Technical Ability)**
- Keen to learn and conscientious
- Demonstrate an ability to communicate and work well as part of a team
- Tenacious, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong organisational skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
- Educated to degree level
- Keen interest in food and must be up to date on the latest food trends
- Competent numerical skills (calculate margins, percentages profit etc)
- Retail experience

We are committed to developing your career and nurturing your talent, regardless of age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation. We respect and embrace each other's differences, to create a truly inclusive environment.

In the last year alone, our people have been recognised and celebrated, winning awards for their outstanding contributions to Retail, Technology, Global Hospitality & Tourism, Visual Merchandising & Display, Customer Service and Local Community Awards.

**In return, we offer**:

- A competitive salary
- A generous store and restaurant discount of up to 40%
- 25 days holidays (excluded bank holidays) and an extra day off for your birthday
- A fantastic subsidised staff restaurant which uses Fortnum’s ingredients
- A range of opportunities to develop and grow personally and professionally
- Excellent pension scheme

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