Assistant Buyer - Ladieswear

at  Cotton Traders Ltd

We are recruiting for an Assistant Buyer to join our Ladieswear Buying department. The successful candidate will work closely to support the Buyer and wider team to ensure that sales, stock and margin targets are achieved. You will have bundles of passion and energy to successfully drive and contribute to our ranges.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Build a relationship with suppliers as well as Buying, Merchandising and Technology teams demonstrating good communication skills.
• Engage with the Creative, Marketing and Ecommerce teams to ensure productive relationships.
• Assist the Buyer to adapt styles relevant to your area, ensuring regular competitive comp shops are completed to support any suggestions
• Lead critical path meetings within the team, including presenting to the Buyer and Buying Manager. Being proactive by highlighting any potential issues and reacting quickly.
• Develop a range with the Buyer to attract our target customer, ensuring the best price and quality.
• Analysis of sales and performance for direct and retail, to enable trade reactions to be implemented where required.
• All day-to-day administration required to assist the Buyer and ensure the efficient buying of product.
• Being commercially aware of our competitors and their seasonal product and price changes.
• Highly organised and keep on top of key diary dates coming up, to ensure deadlines are met.
• Management of trainee assistant buyer delegating workload to help with running the department efficiently