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Assistant Buyer – Womenswear (12 Month Contract) Jobs in London, England, United Kingdom at COS
Title: Assistant Buyer – Womenswear (12 Month Contract)
Company: COS
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Job DescriptionAs an Assistant Buyer on womenswear, you will support the Buying team to ensure we maximise the departments sales and profitability. In the role you maintain organisation within the department including sample handling. You contribute to the best purchase by securing customer and brand requirements on orders with regards to time, price, quality and quantity.
What you will do:
Drive daily organisation and running of the department for your team .
Continuously evaluate and research our customer, figure out the buying habits and its effects on trends, deliver information to the design team to drive product development .
Support to maximise the departments/concepts sales and profitability by maintaining timelines both before and after order replacement.
Follow weekly trade updates for future opportunities.
Conduct regular analysis of our competitors and provide insights to team, ensuring we offer our customers great value for money.
Communicate with the production office, follow up order placements and meet deadlines .
Handle samples as well as oversee and maintain the wardrobe, making sure all samples are kept neat, tidy and organized .
Manage the post flow from and to recipients .
Raise orders, and order updates .
Prepare and assist fittings, organize agenda, provide samples at the right place right time and right quantity .
Maintain responsibility for ensuring call-off, supplier and trailing quantity moves happen as required .
Be part of reviewing and analysing the departments product, assortment and selling, consider actions according to the business needs and present sales figures .
Qualifications
Alignment to our company values is the most important characteristic we look for in all new joiners. Our values are the behaviours that we appreciate above and beyond anything else. We are
open-minded
and
curious
, we dare to be
different
, we believe in
constant improvement
and we
empower and trust
you to take ownership. Our values are part of who we are, what we stand for and how we act.
In addition to our values for this role we are also looking for:
Previous experience in an Assistant Buyer role (womens RTW beneficial)
Product Development knowledge, experience working with an in-house design team
Strategic and analytical skills, proficient use of Excel
Strong team player with great communication skills
Excellent organisational skills, ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
Commercial mindset to recognise opportunities and support trade decisions
Excellent understanding of external trends and competitor activity both market level & aspirational.
Genuine interest in the COS brand and our customer
Additional Information
This is a
full time temporary 12 month
contract
based at our Head Office in London.
Benefits
We offer all our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a 25% staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
In addition to this UK based colleagues also receive
Up to 25 days holiday
Annual health checks
Pension scheme
Discounts on various activities and financial/life…
