Buying Assistant

Fashion & Retail Personnel; England; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion company in Hertfordshire is seeking a proactive individual to join their team. This role requires managing product development processes, ensuring timely sample approvals, and organising collections for online platforms. The ideal candidate has industry experience, strong IT skills, and excellent organisational abilities. Benefits include a generous holiday allowance, an annual bonus, and staff discounts among others.

Benefits

23 days holiday plus bank holidays

Staff social events

Annual bonus scheme

Workplace pension scheme

Generous staff discount

Parking

Qualifications

• Experience working in a similar role within the fashion industry.
• Strong IT skills and experience with retail systems.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise effectively.

Responsibilities

• Assist with managing product development from design to production.
• Manage Critical Path of samples and ensure timely approvals.
• Take ownership of sample management and preparation for marketing.
• Organise fabric swatches and maintain accurate records.
• Create seasonal line sheets and advise on packaging requirements.
• Assist in sourcing complementary brands for the website.

Skills

Strong IT skills

Organisational skills

Ability to meet deadlines

Tools

Shopify

Office applications

Job description

Job Overview

Are you a graduate with a solid year long placement looking for your first industry role? This position would also suit a BAA with 1-2 years experience. Based in Hertfordshire, you will be joining a small and friendly business focused on delivering fantastic products to their customers with the best possible service, both internally and externally – therefore they are looking for someone like-minded to join them!

Responsibilities

• Assist with managing the development of ranges from the point the design is complete to the handover to the production team.
• Manage Critical Path of samples from design to approval, sending design briefs, chasing samples and sample approval.
• Administrate sample comments, price negotiation and order creation.
• Take ownership of sample management, from organisation and tracking to preparing samples for the marketing and production departments, organising distributor and agent samples and ensuring everything is in the right place at the right time.
• Attend meetings for range building, final order sign-off and pre-production.
• Manage and organise fabric swatches, keeping records to include supplier and recyclable information.
• Create seasonal line sheets, input data, writing product descriptions, advising packaging requirements and basic editing of images.
• Organise products and collections on our website and selling platforms.
• Assist in buying other brands to complement our ranges and feature on our website.

Qualifications

• Experience working within the industry in a similar role.
• Strong IT skills with experience using Office applications and retail systems and platforms including Shopify.
• Highly organised and focused on deadlines with the ability to prioritise when needed.

Benefits

• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays (31 days in total).
• Staff social events.
• Annual bonus scheme related to company performance.
• Workplace pension scheme.
• Generous staff discount.
• Parking.