Assistant Buyer - Nutmeg (FTC)

Morrisons; Coalville; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail group in Coalville is seeking an Assistant Buyer for their Nutmeg brand on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will support the buying team by developing and sourcing a unique product range, ensuring seamless department operations. This role requires fashion and design expertise, a strong understanding of customer needs, and the ability to manage supplier relationships. Benefits include staff discounts, holiday entitlement, and company pension contributions.

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension contributions

Free parking onsite

Qualifications

• Proven passion for product and design in fashion.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with suppliers and internal teams.
• Experience in managing sample logistics and administrative duties.
• Demonstrated commercial awareness in retail.

Responsibilities

• Support the buying team by developing and sourcing products.
• Maintain relationships with suppliers and internal departments.
• Ensure the product critical path is accurate.
• Review sales performance and report on opportunities and issues.

Skills

Fashion and design knowledge

Attention to detail

Experience with clothing retail

Customer needs understanding

Product quality awareness

Retail market knowledge

Creativity in product development

Mentoring capability

Influencing skills

Education

Fashion, design, or business qualification

Job description

Nutmeg, which is part of the Morrison’s group, is a family lifestyle brand that launched in

2013 and is now sold in all of our Morrisons stores and online. Nutmeg’s aim is to offer our

customers great value products to love, live and feel good in. All of our products are

affordable, thoughtful, great quality and are designed to work better for people’s lives.

We’re looking for an Assistant Buyer to join the team for Nutmeg on a 12 month fixed term

contract, based from our head office in Coalville (Leicestershire) to support the buying team

by assisting in developing, sourcing and buying a specific range of products that meets all

company requested requirements whilst ensuring the smooth day to day running of the

Department.

You’ll assist in planning, sourcing and delivering a commercial and competitively priced

product range. Developing effective working relationships with both suppliers and internal

colleagues, taking some responsibility for the training and the development of the junior

team members. Ultimately this will lead to you taking full responsibility and ownership for

buying a designated area within the department you are working in.

What will I do as an Assistant Buyer at Nutmeg?

• Develop positive working relationships with suppliers.

• Build effective relationships with the marketing department, visual merchandising and

PR teams to assist in developing strong and consistent marketing messages, visual

merchandising strategies and brand image for the department whilst keeping the

Buyer informed.

• Continually communicate with suppliers and internal departments about the status of

orders, queries and issues to help to ensure the product critical path is kept up to

date and accurate.

• Demonstrate Commercial Awareness – Ensure an awareness of the customer profile, current trends and competitors, whilst continually developing knowledge of all

aspects of the supplier base.

• Ensure a customer focused knowledge of the varying market and trends by regular

competitive and own store visits to help in assisting the Buyer to select and deliver a

product range that is balanced and reflects customer requirements in terms of pricing

and fashionability.

• Offer your own proactive thoughts and ideas to the Buyer.

• Sample management – take ownership, ensuring all samples are kept tidy and

correctly labelled. Correct samples are available for fit sessions, best sellers and all

other meetings as required. All approval samples from initial sample to production

sample are received to correct specifications

• Responsible for all relevant administrative duties for the department, alongside

preparing and managing any reports as requested by the department for meetings.

• Accurately create the orders, utilising internal systems within required time frames

• Review weekly sales performance and identify any opportunities and highlight any

issues

About you

Key relationships you’ll maintain include:

Customers, Category Director of Clothing, Buyers, Merchandisers, Design Team, Technical

Team, Retail Team, Suppliers, Head of Buying & Design, Head of Merchandising,

Marketing/PR, Supply Chain.

So you can hit the ground running in this role and be the best you can be, we’re looking for

someone who can demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

• Fashion, design, business qualification.

• A passion for product and an eye for detail.

• Experience with a clothing retailer/supplier.

• Clear understanding of how to serve customer needs and requirements.

• Product Knowledge – have a clear and commercial understanding of garments and

demonstrate a passion for product quality and design.

• Retail market knowledge – have a good understanding of all aspects of the buying,

design, merchandising and quality processes.

• Creatively looking to develop new products as well as develop new markets and

opportunities, showing a great eye for detail.

• Takes responsibility for own learning, keeping skills and knowledge up to date and

sharing knowledge with others through mentoring.

• Ability to influence and relationship build

About us

Nutmeg has been trading for 11 years and has grown from a Children’s clothing retailer to doing Womenswear and most recently Menswear. The Nutmeg team focuses on listening to our customers to put the best ranges in stores based on trends, seasonality, store demographic and event calendars, and the merchandising team plays a key role in all of these decision making processes. You will work on a team of 8 people including Merchandising, Buying and Design to develop and land several ranges a season. The environment is fast paced with a focus on getting results quickly that inspires our customers to keep on coming back to us.

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member

• Generous holiday entitlement
  Company pension contributions
  Perks with over 850 retailers

• Free parking onsite