Job description
Position Overview
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Meticulous data integrity and management of daily, weekly, and seasonal buying responsibilities; Deliveries, Pricing, Buysheet, Assortment Updates, and general admin support.
Assist with preparation and analysis of sales history to build seasonal range plans.
- Ability to manage required tools and systems, as well as troubleshoot any issues and identify better ways of working to improve efficiency.
- Autonomous and Accurate Delivery and Purchase Order Management. Clear communication of orders status, challenges, and opportunities to wider team.
- Demonstrate and communicate awareness of retail landscape; conduct research on competitive set including pricing, style, and key messages and translate findings into actions.
- Assist the team to maintain awareness of fashion and market trends to help identify product opportunities
- Support in preparing necessary documents and resources for major calendar meetings, including Hindsight, Buy Review and Sign Off.
- Agile Outlook and priority management to maintain department critical path.
- Able to analyze business reports with support from manager to broaden knowledge. Develop the ability to draw top line conclusions and actions from analysis.
- Build relationships with cross-functional partners across Stores, Production, Merchandising and Creative to ensure the department critical path is maintained to the highest standard.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- High proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook
- Highly organised
- Ability to manage timelines and juggle priorities
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- A strong team player who is adaptable within different circumstances
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong awareness of product trends and current state of market & a highly commercial driven mindset
- Resilient with an agile and resourceful mindset, able to over-come challenges by focusing on solutions
- Ideally possess at least 1 full strategic buying cycle
- Effective communication skills at all levels, both written and spoken