Trend‑Led Assistant Buyer — Fast-Fashion & Quick Wins

ASOS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Employee sample sales

25 days paid leave + extra day

Private medical care scheme

Fixed annual payment

Personalised learning opportunities

Job summary

ASOS DESIGN Womenswear Test & React is recruiting an Assistant Buyer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to respond quickly to customer demand and trading opportunities. You’ll work across jersey and woven, collaborating with Buying, Design, Merchandising and suppliers to translate trends into commercial product.

Join a fast-paced team focused on speed, newness and customer insight, with opportunities to develop supplier relationships, lead testing, and progress to higher responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience as an Assistant Buyer in a fast-paced fashion retailer.
• Strong jersey and woven buying knowledge with trend translation.
• Excellent commercial judgement using trade data and customer insight.
• Proactive, organized and able to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Able to manage supplier relationships and negotiate costs.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, reactive buying environment.
• Able to adapt quickly to trade and customer demand.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Buyer to deliver fast-paced, trend-led product across jersey and woven, reacting quickly to customer demand and trading opportunities.
• Reviewing trade regularly to identify winning product, emerging opportunities and areas where we need to react quickly.
• Identifying trends early and working with Design and suppliers to translate them into relevant, commercial product at pace.
• Testing new product opportunities and using performance and customer response to inform what we repeat, adapt or move away from.
• Partnering with Merchandising to identify risks and opportunities and take clear trading actions.
• Building strong supplier relationships, negotiating costs, lead times and deliveries to maximise speed and flexibility.
• Managing the critical path and proactively removing blockers to get newness to market quickly.
• Supporting and developing Buying Assistants while role modelling ASOS behaviours.

Skills

Assistant Buyer

Jersey/Woven buying

Trend awareness

Trade data insights

Supplier negotiation

Speed to market

Cross-functional collab

Commercial mindset

Job description

ASOS DESIGN Womenswear Test & React is recruiting an Assistant Buyer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to respond quickly to customer demand and trading opportunities. You’ll work across jersey and woven, collaborating with Buying, Design, Merchandising and suppliers to translate trends into commercial product.

Join a fast-paced team focused on speed, newness and customer insight, with opportunities to develop supplier relationships, lead testing, and progress to higher responsibilities.