Assistant Buyer

Here at Peacocks, we have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to join our Head Office team in Cardiff. If you are passionate about fashion, have a great eye for product and trends and are ready to take the next step in your Buying career, then Peacocks is the brand for you. Our Buying Department is where fashion comes to life. Creating stylish and accessible ranges, our Buying team combines a sharp eye for emerging trends with a strong understanding of our customers and what they want to wear. Whether she's a busy Mum looking for budget friendly fashion, a guy looking for the ultimate BBQ shirt or a fashion lover looking for the latest trends, we aim to offer our customer wearable style for all the family on their local High Street. We're proud to work alongside our Brand Ambassadors, Louise Redknapp, Dani Dyer and Michael Owen, who each bring their individual style and personality to our collections, creating inspiring ranges for every season. The role As an Assistant Buyer, you'll play an important role in helping to shape and develop exciting, commercial, and fashion-forward product ranges that our customers love. From spotting the next big trend and supporting product development to analysing performance and helping bring each range to life, you'll gain hands-on experience across the entire buying journey. Responsibilities/ Objectives:

1. Critical Path

• Take ownership to manage Critical Path to ensure information is accurate, up to date and deliveries are on time
• Provides regular updates through appropriate communication across the team and to suppliers on any identified issues

2. Sample Management

• Chase and manage samples to ensure they are kept tidy and correctly labelled to be available promptly for fit sessions, best sellers, press and promotional meetings as required

3. Quality Assurance (QA)

• Chase and prioritise samples for fit sessions in line with the Critical Path
• Attend fit session with Critical Path information and ensure samples are accurate to match with order requirements

4. Commercial Awareness

• Undertake regular benchmarking to keep up to date with competitor activity and report findings to Buyer to assist with range development
• Demonstrate understanding of customer profile to actively contribute to research of new trends, colours and themes
• Present findings of weekly sales report to Team in Best/Worst meetings as agreed with Buyer

5. Supplier Management

• Continually communicates with suppliers about the status of orders, lab dips and samples to ensure achievement of the Critical Path
• Continually develop knowledge of all aspects of supplier base
• Attend and participate in supplier meeting with Buyer recording accurate minutes as required

6. General Administration

• Undertake all relevant administrative duties for department
• Accurately and promptly raise orders utilising internal systems
• Effectively communicate via email and telephone in an appropriate manner Ideal Candidate should have:
• Degree in Fashion/Textiles
• A broad-based understanding of all aspects of the buying process: quality assurance, merchandising and selection.
• Ability to build good working/business relationships with suppliers
• Good negotiation skills and excellent telephone manner
• Strong admin experience with good attention to detail
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable