Buying Assistant - Heritage Brands

Very Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, hybrid working

Inclusive culture

£250 flexible benefits allowance

27 days holiday + bank holidays

LinkedIn learning access

Bonus potential

Up to 25% discount

Matched pension up to 6%

Job summary

Very Group is seeking a Buying Assistant (Buyers Admin Assistant) for the Heritage Brands team, supporting brands such as Barbour and PVH across gender markets. You’ll report to the Buyer, work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, and help manage supplier data and product launches.

The role involves category-critical path understanding, sample management, and administrative support, with emphasis on accuracy, initiative and strong Excel skills.

Qualifications

• Understanding of the Very customer.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload.
• Attention to detail.
• A great attitude and willing to learn.
• A good communicator across all levels.
• Proficient in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day you will understand the category critical path and branded supply chain, whilst undertaking administrative support for the buying function.
• You will be responsible for sample management and maintaining the sample library.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organisational skills

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

About us

We’re the team behind digital retailerVery.

Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

About the team

We havean exciting opportunityforaBuying Assistant(Buyers Admin Assistant) on ourHeritage Brands department working with key strategic brands for the business such as Barbour and PVH across all gender Womens, Mens and Kids.You’llreportinto theBuyer for the area, so lots of opportunity to further develop your skillsand progress in role.

You will joining a collaborative and fast-paced buying team where ideas are valued and initiative is encouraged.The team is small,sogood communicationskills are imperative as yousupport the team in bringing exciting products to market, managing supplier information, and ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.You'llgain insight into category management, supplier relationships and pricing while developing the organisational skills, commercialknowledgeand experience, all of which are essential for a successful career in buying.

About the role

Day to day you will understand the category critical path and branded supply chain, whilst undertaking administrative support for the buying function. You will be responsible for sample management and maintaining the sample library.

The skills and behaviours key to being a successful BA candidate here at The Very Group are; commercially aware, able to build relationships and methodical, passionate, strong communication skills, can demonstrate initiative, enjoys problem solving and interpreting data and you must have excellent attention to detail.

About you

• Understanding of the Very customer.

• Ability to prioritise and manage workload.

• Attention to detail.

• A great attitude and willing to learn.

• A good communicator across all levels.

• Proficient in Excel.

Some of our benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model

• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews

• £250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays

• LinkedIn learning access

• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)

• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

• Matched pension up to 6%

• More benefits can be found on our career site

What happens next?

Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.

You can expect a one-stage interview process for this position:

1st stage - A one-hour formal face-to-face interview where you can expect both competency and technical questions, alongside an analysis task to assess your market knowledge, customer and product trend awareness.

As an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here.

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities

We’rebuilding a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via [e-mail]. We’ll be happy to support you.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.