Assistant Buyer

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Assistant Buyer, where you'll thrive in a fast-paced environment and drive success across key areas. This role empowers you to innovate and adapt, ensuring timely deliveries and strategic alignment with brand goals. With a commitment to wellbeing and sustainability, the company offers a vibrant culture and numerous opportunities for personal and professional growth. Embrace your creativity and make a significant impact in a dynamic team that values your unique contributions. If you're passionate about fashion and eager to learn, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Up to 40% discount off all brands

Learning and Development training

Flexible core hours

Participation in share schemes

Health and wellbeing benefits

Vibrant social calendar

Opportunities for internal progression

Buzzing atmosphere and family culture

Qualifications

• Experience as an Assistant Buyer or Buyers Admin Assistant.
• Ability to manage workload and adapt communication effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage critical path and ensure department targets are met.
• Negotiate cost prices and attend supplier meetings.
• Contribute to product development and weekly trade meetings.

Skills

Fashion Buying Experience

Negotiation Skills

Trend Spotting

Workload Management

Communication Skills

Adaptability

Education

Experience in Fashion Buying

Job description

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We are looking for an Assistant Buyer to join our ever growing team! As an Assistant Buyer at boohoo you'll be innovative, driven and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You're responsible for driving the success of boohoo across our long lead areas. This includes constantly reviewing the critical path to ensure that department targets as well as deliveries are met on time and in line with the brand's strategy.

Your team

We’re boohoo, and we’re a brand on a mission. We want to be everything for fashion, for everyone. Customers count on us for the latest trends, collections and inspiration so they can have the wardrobe of their dreams. But we care about more than just fashion. We champion wellbeing and sustainability too. Dropping over 500 new products a week means our customers have choice, can look their best, feel confident and be empowered.

What you'll be doing

• Managing a BAA on critical path and OPO management to ensure department targets are achieved and deliveries on time
• Ownership of fit sessions and actioning fit comments direct to suppliers
• Negotiating cost prices to achieve best prices and meet department BIM
• Understanding open costings including fabric prices, consumption and fit amend implications
• Collating the final sign off pack with the support of the JB/Buyer
• Attending supplier meetings to develop and source new development as well as reviewing OPO and any production concerns
• Management of sample development tracker and chasing in development to meet deadlines
• Contributing to weekly trade meetings with suggestions on how to react to department trading
• Accountable for achieving cost price reductions of 1st time rebuys
• Carries out weekly comp shops and supports the BAA in collating the comp shop report for management
• Contributing to department product development with an awareness of department best and worst and seasonal trends

Working with us

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It is relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We are always pushing boundaries. We want you to think big. Think creatively. Be bold. Be brave. Do not be afraid to make mistakes – that is how we learn! We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We are one team, one boohoo family. Bring your own style, experiences, and ideas – we want them all.

More about you

• Previous experience working in fashion buying, either at Assistant Buyer of Buyers Admin Assistant level.
• You consistently manage your workload effectively, trusted to make actions without prompt
• Your approachable to your whole team and external parties and always ready to help and support acting as a role model for junior members
• You accept feedback and are willing to adapt personal approach to achieve better communication as well as increased communication with senior management
• You’re a keen learner and always push yourself to find out more about the business industry and company
• Your super adaptable and find it easy to switch it up when the business needs
• You can delegate and share workload to the team effectively
• Your always ahead at spotting trends and commercial wins for the business

Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception. Beyond this we offer each and every employee the below benefits:

• There’s up to 40% discount off all our brands
• Opportunity to take part in Learning and Development training- expanding your knowledge on areas outside of your day to day.
• Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
• You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes- where your impact on the business will also impact you!
• Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
• Our social calendar? Next level!
• Opportunity to progress both within your brand and also internally across our 12 other fashion brands!
• With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe, we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work