Express Buying Assistant

Asda Stores Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking an Express Buying Assistant to support the Buyer with sales tracking and analysis, manage administrative tasks, and liaise with suppliers. This role requires strong communication skills, an analytical mindset, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You will benefit from a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including a company pension and discounts. Hybrid working conditions apply, with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

15% colleague discount in store and online

Free access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong communicator with great personal skills.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled in using data to make informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Support the Buyer with sales tracking and analysis.
• Keep admin up to date with cost and retail changes.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to manage change

Effective decision-making

Customer-centric mindset

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 22 January 2026

Find your role

Finding the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you’ll soon realise when you join our team. In this fast‑moving, 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. Doing it efficiently brings savings to our customers and our business.

You will support the Buyer in all areas, including sales tracking and analysis. You will keep the admin up to date, including line listing, cost and retail changes, and liaise with suppliers to ensure they meet deadlines and tasks. You will contribute to decisions on ranges and promotions and answer and resolve store/supplier queries.

Other important tasks include raising and reconciling internal and external invoices to the category, assisting the Buyer with competitor research, and day‑to‑day trading of your category.

Let’s find out about you

• Analytical and data‑driven, skilled in using data to make informed decisions and optimise results.
• .${You will} be a strong communicator with great personal skills to work with people at all levels – not just in our business, but also beyond it.
• Thrives in a fast‑paced environment, with the ability to manage change and drive results.
• You will be agile and an effective decision maker, willing to move, fail and learn fast.
• Obsessed about our purpose and our customers.

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 of 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements that 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, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 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 & Augsburg 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.