Buying Associate

3 days ago

Bury, United Kingdom Go Outdoors Full time

**Role Overview**:
This role is critical to the Buying function and provides a link between the B&M team and the Retail/ on-line sales channels. The role represents the first step within Buying.

**Key Deliverables**
- Help meet and exceed category sales and margin targets

**Planning**
- Assisting with the delivery of analysis and preparation of future strategies
- Providing administrative support for the buying team across all relevant systems
- Ensuring accurate data entry within the relevant critical path
- Seasonal preparation of photographic range catalogues
- Gaining an understanding of the top-line company strategy and how it affects my department

**Delivering**
- Developing an understanding of the outdoor market, suppliers and competitors
- Maintaining supplier database, workbooks, price lists etc.
- Managing buying team branded samples - ordering, recording, returns.
- Ensuring sample availability for marketing, on-line, photography etc.
- Developing and maintaining an excellent relationship with Suppliers
- Gaining and maintaining an understanding of the systems and processes utilised within JD Outdoors
- Support buyers / liaise with product development teams as necessary
- Support on-line teams as necessary (branded assets, product data, copy)

**Trading**
- Supporting trading meetings as appropriate - sales samples, new lines
- Tracking competitor activity and document ranging, pricing, promotion etc.

**Teamwork**
- Share best practice within my team
- Give and receive regular feedback
- ‘Can do’ attitude
- Learn from our mistakes and help it shape our future plans
- We strive for a ‘right first time’ approach in all we do
- We are all responsible for the culture of our office - if we don’t like something, we change it

**Skills/Experience/Knowledge**:

- Passion for Outdoor activities and product would be advantageous;
- Previous Retail experience within an established Outdoor Retailer would be advantageous however not essential.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Ability to prioritise workload and tasks.
- Ability to make working relationships both internally and externally.
- Flexible working approach during peak periods of the year.

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