Merchandiser

Assistant Buyer. We are looking for a bright, professional, creative, and enthusiastic individual with experience of working with product; the candidate must have excellent communication & commercial skills, able to work well within a team and can also manage their own workload and time management.

The Assistant Buyer will report to the Team Leader - Merchandising within the Purchasing Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the creation of product stock ranges for our clients across the UK and Germany whilst also becoming specialists in product categories.

You will work closely with Account Managers, the wider Purchasing Team, suppliers, and the client to provide innovative, sustainable, and commercially viable stock range that meet all requirements.

The ideal candidate must have a passion to learn and a skillset that allows them to think commercially, analyse data, have an awareness of product trends, multitask, and meet deadlines.

• Client product stock range refresh & development
• Effectively source, sample, order and present product ranges to Account Managers/ clients ensuring brand guidelines are met.
• Ability to analyse sales data to support product choice.
• Propose products in line with client brief that are innovative, sustainable, compliant, and profitable.
• Work closely to build relationships with suppliers in UK & EU to ensure best pricing is secured.
• Drive business to our preferred supplier network.
• Ability to create pricing excel matrices to capture accurate costs and margins.
• Propose and justify optimum product order quantities.
• Product set up on Basys including, pricing, detailed supplier notes, UDF's etc.
• Purchase Order management.
• Manage and prioritise workload effectively, ensuring all project deadlines are met. Monitoring your time so that several tasks within projects can be managed at once.
• Hybrid Role - the employee is required to be in the office at least 3 days a week.

• Must have: Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Must have: Passion for product/market trends
• Must have: Ability to self-motivate, manage own time, work under pressure, and have a 'can do' attitude.
• Must have: Commercial awareness. Attention to detail.
• Must have: Knowledge of MS Office / Basys