Senior Assistant Buyer – Men’s Tailoring & Shirts – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

As the Assistant Buyer for Men’s Tailoring & Shirts, you will play a huge role within the team. Working alongside a Buying Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring we plan and deliver the most commercial and profitable ranges to meet our customers’ needs.

Responsibilities

• Providing support to keep the function running smoothly.
• Preparing and presenting information, product or numerical analysis of sales.
• Presenting in Monday trade, strategy meetings and sign‑off meetings.
• Conducting regular store/website visits, or managing a team to undertake this task, to understand our competition ranges and prices and to help shape our future product and range requirements.
• Identifying new product opportunities and understanding how to work through the different stages of product development from concept to production in order to bring new products to the ranges.
• Active involvement in range building process to support my manager to deliver great products and great ranges hitting all the key meeting milestones.
• Forming and maintaining supplier relationships to help support your department.
• Negotiating (with support from your manager) prices across multiple products.
• Understanding product components, technical requirements, sourcing and supply chain issues and commercial margin parameters.
• Liaising with HUBs and suppliers to monitor critical path taking actions to ensure on‑time deliveries.
• Day‑to‑day management of Buying Administrators or Junior Assistant buyers within the team, demonstrating your coaching and leadership skills to develop the team.
• Understanding and supporting the departmental sourcing strategy.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

Qualifications

• Clothing retail experience.
• Product development and sourcing experience.
• Range building skills.
• Report preparation and numerical analysis skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Ideally line‑management responsibility.
• Data analysis and numeracy skills.
• MS Office proficiency.
• Excel proficiency.

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