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Assistant Buyer

6 months ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom The Very Group Full time

About the role.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Buyer on Own Brand Kidswear. You’ll report directly into the Buying Manager and Junior Buyer for the area and manage a Buying Assistant so lots of opportunity to further develop your skills.

Day to day you will be meeting and handling supplier relationships, working closely with the design team to develop a commercial range suited to our customer, producing and communicating reports at trade meetings on trends, forecasts and opportunities.

We’re looking for an Assistant Buyer who already has experience at this level or someone who has transferable skills in a relevant profession and can demonstrate a strong understanding and passion for Buying.

The skills and behaviours imperative to being a successful Assistant Buyer candidate are; methodical, passionate, strong communication skills, can demonstrate initiative, has a strong eye for product, understand the current market/competition and you must have excellent attention to detail.

About you.

Able to deputise for the Buying Manager and Junior Buyer in key meetings. Liaison with Senior Management Team and can clearly articulate category performance. Trading actions – identifying how to improve best sellers and identifying worst sellers and minimising risk. UK supplier appointments and negotiation with support of manager. Critical path management including product approvals and leading the garment fit process. Relationship management: both internally and externally will be important, building positive relationships to improve commercial opportunities. Commercial awareness: Awareness of the market is key, keeping track of competitor activity, market trends and price positioning. Ensuring weekly checks of imagery, price and relevant copy. Management of a buying assistant in the team, providing development and career progression. Sample management, chasing samples ahead of sign offs, collating fit samples, liaising with VM teams to ensure visibility of sign off product per month.

Some of our benefits

Flexible, hybrid working model Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews £250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs 27 days holiday + bank holidays Udemy learning access Bonus potential (performance and business-related) Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk Matched pension up to 6% More benefits can be found on our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.