Buying Admin Assistant

4 days ago

Watford, United Kingdom Poundland Full time

**About the opportunity...** We are recruiting for a Buying Admin Assistant to work at our busy Pep and Co head office in Watford. The role has a flexible working location, allowing you to work from home and the office.

Working within our Kidswear department, you will be responsible for supporting the buying team ensuring all admin and sample management is managed effectively and efficiently.

We are committed to supporting our colleagues with their development, this role comes with the ability to study an apprenticeship in Buying and Merchandising Assistant Level 4

**What you'll be doing...** As a Buying Admin Assistant, you will be responsible for:

- Looking after critical paths and approvals
- Visiting the competition to prepare accurate competitive shop & benchmark analysis
- Regular store visits to view Pep&Co collections
- Accountable for sample management including ordering and chasing samples
- Raising orders and liaising with suppliers
- Researching trends and producing reports, ordering
- Any other administrative tasks to ensure the department is meeting deadlines.

**What you'll need...** To be successful, you need to have:

- A relevant qualification interest in Fashion
- Ideally 12 months experience in a Buying Administration role
- Good communication and organisation skills with the ability to work to lead times and deadlines
- Sound knowledge of all Microsoft office packages
- Full UK driving licence and own vehicle due to the volume of comp shops and store visits

**What we can offer...**:

- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Sample sales
- Pension

**About us...** Since opening our first store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990, Poundland, has built a network of over 850 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering top brands and great quality own brand products that provide customers with amazing value everyday

Poundland offers thousands of quality products in store with over 1,000 well-known brands in 17 shopping categories including food and drink, health and beauty, household, gardening, DIY, pet, stationery, books, DVDs and toys.We are now on a journey froma single price to a simple price point retailer.

Now part of Pepco Group with over 2,500 stores across Europe, you will see Poundland also trades internationally in the Republic of Ireland through its Dealz brand.Dealz has a growing store base in both Poland and Spain.

Within the UK Poundland has also rolled out its fashion brand PEP&CO to approximately 300 of our larger stores. PEP&CO, launched in 2015 as a stand-alone brand, offers customers a full range of women’s, men’s and kids’ fashion and is now bringing new styleto Poundland with simple low pricing on family fashion that’s hard to find on local high streets.

PEP&CO was also nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.

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