Menswear - Senior Assistant Buyer

3 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom NEXT Full time

With our online business constantly growing, our Senior Assistant Buyer will be integral in creating attractive and profitable product ranges across the business. They work closely with our Designers, Merchandisers and Technologists to create stylish new collections for every season. This is an opportunity to join our Menswear team at an exciting time of growth.

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 43,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re at the forefront of the market. At the last count, we have over 500 stores, plus Next Online and it’s now possible to buy online from over 70 countries around the world.

With our online business constantly growing, our Assistant Buyers have a joint venture to support in creating attractive and profitable product ranges across the business. They work closely with our Designers, Merchandisers and Technologists to create stylish new collections for every season.

This is an opportunity to join our Menswear team at an exciting time of growth.

The role

You’ll be joining the Buying team within Menswear, offering them key support for the buying, developing and reviewing of seasonal ranges. You’ll have key responsibilities at every stage of the process, starting from helping Buyers to formulate proposals for range restructure – considering everything from market opportunities to new trends. You’ll help to develop and plan commercially successful ranges, taking into account sales data, price architecture and brand DNA. As well as communicating design briefs and considering various issues such as price, quality and lead times. Analyse sales data and trends, acting quickly to identify new opportunities. You’ll also plan and manage any necessary meetings to ensure issues are quickly identified and resolved.  You’ll be responsible for accurately maintaining progress systems and ensuring critical dates and deadlines are met. You’ll also build productive relationships with external suppliers as well as provide support and development opportunities to Trainees in your team. You’ll be doing all this from our Leicestershire Head Office… A fast-paced, encouraging and inspiring environment where we never underestimate what we can do.  We offer flexible hours We can offer the options to WFH when the role can be performed better at home, as opposed to in the office Travel to manufacturing locations  Travel for inspiration We have budget which allows our Buyers to travel as part of the role

… So bring your energy, play to your strengths and never shy away from change. Push yourself, and back others. And make things happen that will be bigger and better than before.

If you’re customer-focused, self-motivated and organised, have a keen eye for detail and an investigative mind, and can’t wait to start building relationships, this is the place for you – and your career.



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