Assistant Buyer | Lookfantastic

Thg Plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

On-site gym

Staff discount on THG brands

Employee referral bonus (£1000)

Birthday and anniversary rewards

Job summary

THG is looking for an Assistant Buyer to join the Lookfantastic buying team in the UK. You will support junior/buyer levels in building brand budgets and joint business plans to drive promotions, launches and investments in marketing to maximise performance.

You’ll work with brand partners and internal teams to coordinate activations, manage product launches, and ensure brands are well represented across Lookfantastic and related sites. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Financial and analytical ability to budget and review performance.
• Excellent communicator with clear direction.
• Commercial awareness of the beauty industry.
• Strong knowledge of partner brands and how they perform.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with internal teams and clients.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and managing brand budgets and joint business plans.
• Coordinate activations and promotions with brands, site managers and marketing teams.
• Ensure brands are well represented on Lookfantastic and partner sites.
• Monitor category performance and advise on actions based on sales data.
• Attend brand meetings and support with notes and follow-ups.

Skills

Financial analysis

Strong communication

Commercial awareness

Brand partner knowledge

Relationship building

Critical thinking

Job description

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.

Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.

From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG.

With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for?

Life at THG Beauty

We know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands inclusive of ESPA, Ameliorate and Christophe Robin,with a marketplace for over 1,300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader.

Why be an Assistant Buyer at Lookfantastic?

You will join a multi-brand, dynamic team of true beauty enthusiasts, with the opportunity to work cross-functionally with the wider category-led Buying team. You will also have the opportunity to work with market leading brands and internal teams across the Lookfantastic business to drive continued sales and profit growth. By driving strong joint business plans with each of our brand partners, you will have the opportunity to grow and develop your category with ample opportunity for progression and development.

As an Assistant Buyer , you’ll:

• Work with the Junior Buyer / Buyer to build, manage and deliver brand budgets and build best in market joint business plans to achieve business benefits including market leading promotions, first to market launches, exclusives and investment into promotional & marketing support to maximise performance.
• Communicate key joint business plan activations by brand to site managers and marketing teams to ensure the successful executionand coordinate joint business plan activations including the set up and ordering of NPD and gift with purchases, setting live and taking down brand promotions, providing clear guidance to trading teams around the time, strength and included SKUs of any promotions and actively providing teams with marketing assets to promote brands across site
• Work in close alignment with the LOOKFANTASTIC and boutique site managers to ensure brands are well represented on site
• Be responsible for continuous monitoring and review of category performance to analyse sales patterns, taking into consideration competitor activations in the market. Advises relevant teams and ensures appropriate action is taken to unforeseen sales reactions.
• Attends brand meetings alongside Junior Buyer / Buyer to offer support in meeting notes and feedback
  

What skills and experience do I need for this role?

• Financial and analytical ability – ability to budget and review performance
• Excellent communicator – able to give clarity and set direction
• Commercial awareness of the beauty industry
• Strong knowledge of your brand partners
• Ability to form good working relationships with internal teams and external clients
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

What’s in it for me?

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP.
  
• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
• State-of-the-art on-site gym.
• Access to our on-site physio.

Other Perks

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
• On-site staff shop.
  
• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.