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About the Role
We are recruiting a number of permanent Buying Assistants across various categories including Home, Fashion, and Beauty. This role involves managing milestones, supporting administrative tasks, and analyzing competitors and assortments. You will maintain operational relationships with suppliers and propose actions to your category group.
Responsibilities
- Managing milestones and adhering to standard processes
- Supporting, buying and executing the administrative tasks required across critical path management, pricing, range building, marketing, and trading activities for your assigned category
- Taking responsibility for the complete competitor and assortment analysis - working with supplier and internal teams to collate and deliver - events, marketing activities, samples (range building and assortment reviews)
- Executing work in a right first time and accurate manner
- Flexing to the ebb and flow of seasonal demands, including supporting additional categories as the need arises
- Maintaining operational relationships with our Suppliers
- Proposing actions to your category group and executing their decisions within their critical path, assortment, marketing and range plans templates
- Managing exceptions to these processes with the relevant stakeholders
Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of product development processes in respective category areas; Home, Fashion & Beauty
- Communicating, influencing and negotiating with a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent time management/prioritisation skills and approach to tasks in a project/milestone outlook - planning and reviewing work regularly and adapting to change
- Experience of working with range plans, critical path and assortment review and marketing nomination processes
- Demonstrates an innate passion for and understanding of Retail
- Experience in a Buying office or a Buying qualification would be an advantage
- Experience of using JL systems/tools - Range plan, Product Hub, Step, Google Suite
Skills
- Product development processes
- Communication
- Influencing
- Negotiation
- Time management
- Prioritisation
- Range plans
- Critical path management
- Assortment review
- Marketing nomination
- Retail understanding
- Buying office experience
- Buying qualification
- JL systems/tools
- Range plan
- Product Hub
- Step
- Google Suite
Location
- London Central Office, Pimlico
- London Central Office, 1 Drummond Gate, London, , SW1V 2QQ
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Permanent positions
- 35 hours Monday to Friday
Experience Level
- Partnership Level 9
Salary/Compensations
- £31,000 per annum
- £28,000.00 - £38,900.00 Annual
Benefits
- Night Premium at a rate of £4.25 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00
- Support flexible working
- Flexible or compressed hours
- Job sharing
- Shorter hour contracts
About the Company
- We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
- We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
- We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail.
- We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
- Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
- As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
- We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
- We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
- Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
- Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
- As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
Equal Opportunity
- Some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
- DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.