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About the Role
As an Assistant Buyer at New Look, you’ll be at the heart of delivering product our customers love. Supporting your Buyer, you’ll help bring creative ideas to life while balancing commercial priorities to build exciting, trend-led ranges. You’ll work closely with suppliers in the UK and internationally, as well as with teams across Design, Merchandising and Technical, to ensure product is delivered on time, on trend and at great value. Fast-paced, hands-on and full of variety, this is the perfect role for someone passionate about product, customers and the world of fashion retail.
Responsibilities
- Immerse yourself in the Business Strategy and use it to drive your department forward.
- Stay ahead of market trends and customer insights to guide product decisions.
- Understand your department’s customer, market share and opportunities to help drive success.
- Work closely with Marketing and Ecommerce to support windows, photoshoots, and other campaigns.
- Assist in preparing for Department Strategy Planning, contributing fresh ideas and insight.
- Support the product journey from design brief to launch, collaborating with Design, Marketing and wider teams.
- Negotiate with suppliers to achieve the best cost prices and hit margin targets.
- Spot trends and translate them into commercial, customer-focused product.
- Keep data and systems up to date, including Assortment Planning tools.
- Choose the right sourcing routes and suppliers for each product.
- Monitor the critical path to ensure intake and distribution targets are met.
- Attend fit sessions in the Buyer’s absence and provide styling and product feedback.
- Build strong supplier relationships, managing KPIs and ensuring sampling requirements are met.
- Negotiate and liaise effectively with suppliers to deliver quality product on time.
- Monitor trade reports and take action where needed to maximise sales.
- Adapt plans quickly to respond to market changes and challenges.
- Share insights on products, suppliers, and best/worst sellers to inform decisions.
- Keep an eye on competitors through ongoing analysis and action where appropriate.
- Support the development of colleagues, providing training and guidance where needed.
- Work collaboratively with Merchandising, Design and Technical teams.
- Be a positive role model, inspiring peers through enthusiasm and expertise.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of clothing/fashion product, trends, and customer preferences.
- Commercially aware, with numeracy and ability to analyse sales, stock and product performance.
- Experience supporting the end-to-end buying process and product development.
- Confident negotiating with suppliers and understanding sourcing options.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams and suppliers.
- Organised, able to manage multiple product areas, deadlines, and critical paths.
- Able to support, train and mentor junior team members.
- Previous experience as an Assistant Buyer or as a Senior BAA within fashion retail preferred.
Skills
- Product Development
- Negotiation
- Trend Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Organization
- Mentoring
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Assistant Buyer
- Senior BAA
Benefits
- 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts
- Access to reward platform for external discount and offers
- Private pension scheme
- Virtual GP access
- Life assurance policy from day one
- Buy more holiday scheme
- Extra paid day off on your birthday
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Cycle2Work scheme
- Partnership with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust
About the Company
- We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.
- By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.
- We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change.
- We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do.
- We’re proud of our inclusive culture and our talented team members who embrace our shared purpose, behaviours and values.
- We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals.
- We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.