Buying Assistant Syston, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England
Dunelm
Full Time
Syston, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.
At Dunelm, that’s what we do.
We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we've created makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.
Our approach to how we work has been to create and encourage an environment of “Feeling at Home Wherever You Work”, ensuring we can work where it is effective for us, and at the same time we are able to collaborate and connect regularly with our teams and networks, so we are offering a balance of time working from home, working in the store centres and other locations.
Would you like to take your first step in to a career in Buying?
We are currently recruiting for a Buying Assistant to provide efficient and effective administrative support to our Buying team.
Working closely with the Buyer’s you will ensure the smooth running of all administrative related tasks for the product area. The ideal candidate will be methodical in their approach will have a keen eye for detail, a passion for our product and be willing to take a hand’s on approach.
Responsibilities include:
- Acting as a first point of contact for callers to the department and taking action as appropriate
- Ensuring all relevant procedures are followed and appropriate paperwork completed in relation to products
- Accurately inputting data for new articles, managing product launches from create forms to digital assets & web product data
- Producing key sales reports for Junior Buyer's and above
- Calculating costs on Far East imports and completing landed cost sheets
- Responsible for samples, calculating costs, tidying, organising and communicating target costs/product changes/orders/briefing artwork to suppliers
- Liaising with suppliers to collect data to enable new lines to be set up
- Communicating with new suppliers and ensuring new vendor set ups are completed accurately and with pace
- Completing regular comp shops
- Running weekly sales reports
- Any other general tasks such as photocopying and data entry
- Delivering accurate information in a timely manner
- Organising and working to deadlines
Our shared values of 'act like owners', 'keep listening and learning, 'long term thinking,and 'strongertogether' help ensure we are alwaysfinding better ways of doing things and spending our time focusing on what’simportant.
We recruit peoplefrom all types of backgrounds, who share our entrepreneurial, hands-on approachto work. We are committed to creating a fully inclusive environment that isrepresentative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value andimportance in inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from allcandidates, regardless of sex, age, race, religion, disability, neuro-diversity.
Dunelm
www.dunelmcareers.com
Leicester, United Kingdom
Nick Wilkinson
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Home Furniture & Housewares Stores
1979
