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About the Role

An exciting opportunity has been created for an established Assistant Buyer/Junior Buyer to join our growing company. This role spans our clothing areas, covering either Womenswear or Menswear, and includes managing one direct report. The position reports to the Senior Buyer.

Responsibilities

• Manage the department critical path, liaising with suppliers to ensure it is up to date, and escalating issues and risks to the Buying and Operations team.
• Ensure internal teams are informed of critical dates.
• Negotiate prices and close orders with global factories, with support from the Senior Buyer, to ensure all ranges are closed and POs are sent in line with the critical path.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the supplier base.
• Oversee the approval process, viewing approvals commercially and escalating concerns.
• Ensure a strong working relationship with the design and print teams.
• Participate in fit sessions.
• Communicate the impact of approval and fit decisions on the critical path to the team.
• Conduct regular competitive shops and share competitor activity with the team.
• Implement plans to address concerns and identify new product opportunities.
• Perform price benchmarking seasonally.
• Assist in team meetings, including range building, sign-offs, and strategies.
• Review and prepare weekly sales information to draw conclusions and suggest actions ahead of trade meetings.
• Ensure learnings are incorporated into future ranges.
• Understand product components, technical requirements, sourcing, supply chain issues, and commercial margin parameters.
• Manage the Buying Administrator daily, developing their technical and leadership skills.
• Support the departmental sourcing strategy.
• Assist in managing wholesale queries and buying appointments.
• Report delivery delays to the Senior Buyer/Ops team and manage outcomes, cross-referencing with wholesale customer orders.
• Sign off all reference samples and gold seal samples in a timely manner, ensuring all test reports and paperwork are received.
• Raise issues to the Senior Buyer.
• Assist the Senior Buyer with capacity planning each season and collating key dates for production to build the company's critical path.

Requirements

• Strong attention to detail
• Flexible with the ability to work at pace in a fast-moving environment
• Ability to question the norm and make improvements as and when necessary
• Good communication and strong organizational skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Full understanding of how to work through the different stages of product development and the buying lifecycle

Experience Level

• Assistant Buyer/Junior Buyer

About the Company

• Chelsea Peers
• Multi Category Clothing