Express Buying Assistant

Asda Stores Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched 15%

Colleague discount in store and online

Wellbeing services: Stream, 24/8 GP, e

Counselling

Discounts on services and activities

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd is recruiting an Express Buying Assistant based at Asda House. The role is full-time and permanent, offering 37.5 hours per week with a hybrid working pattern (minimum 3 days in a Home Office).

You will support the Buyer with sales tracking, admin duties, supplier liaison and trading decisions to drive category performance. Offering a discretionary bonus, pension and colleague discounts, the role provides opportunities to learn in a fast-moving environment and contribute to

Qualifications

• Support the Buyer in sales tracking and analysis.
• Keep admin up to date including line listing, cost and retail changes.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure deadlines and tasks.
• Input into decisions on ranges and promotions.
• Raising and reconciling invoices to the category.
• Assist the Buyer with competitor research and day-to-day trading.

Responsibilities

• Support the Buyer in all areas including sales tracking and analysis.
• Keep admin up to date (line listing, cost and retail changes).
• Liaise with suppliers to meet deadlines and tasks.
• Input decisions on ranges and promotions; resolve store/supplier queries.
• Raise and reconcile invoices; assist with day-to-day trading.

Job description

Job Title Express Buying Assistant

Location Asda House

Employment Type Full time

Contract Type Permanent

Hours Per Week 37.5

Salary Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category Buying

Closing Date 10 November 2026

Are you interested in kickstarting a career in Buying? Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast moving and ever changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter. From daily sales and profit reports, to admin support and marketing getting everything accurate is hugely important. And doing it as efficiently as possible will bring savings to our customers as well as to our business.

You will support the Buyer in all areas, including sales tracking and analysis. It's important that you keep the admin up to date, including line listing, cost and retail changes and liaise with suppliers to ensure that they keep to deadlines and tasks. You will Impute into decisions on ranges and promotions and answer and resolve store/supplier queries. Other important tasks include raising and reconciling of internal and external invoices to the category and assisting the Buyer with competitor research and the day to day trading of your category.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched 15%
• colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/8 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/8 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves

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