We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.
By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.

THE ROLE:

Buying is the department that brings together creative inspiration & commercial planning to deliver the best ranges for our customer. Product is at the heart of everything we do, from developing the best prints for dresses, the must have coat of the season or the ‘It’ bag. Always thinking ‘customer first’ we work hard with our suppliers in the UK & across the world to deliver fashion at amazing prices & as quickly as possible. Buying is fast paced and exciting & every day is unique.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

Planning

• Strategy awareness at Group and Department Level
• Awareness of Brand Vision
• Managing daily /weekly tasks in line with Ways Of Working (WOW)
• Preparation for Departmental Meetings
• Supporting the Buying team with data entry into the planning tool

Buying

• Raising purchase orders
• Working to the Critical Path to meet all deadlines
• Dealing with issues arising with orders both internally and externally
• Taking ownership of finding solutions
• Coordinating barcode process
• Maintaining purchase orders in the Critical Path in the relevant system
• Assisting the team with supplier slippage management
• Actioning any order amendments under direction from the B&M team
• Supporting commitment through the weekly team updates

Sample Management

• Processing samples received
• Labeling, logging, organising and filing samples
• Preparing samples for meetings
• Maintaining the departments range and samples
• Driving the press sample process to ensure that the department offer is fully potentialised.
• Ensuring production samples are received in time to pre shoot for online sales
• Maintaining the latest imagery of samples
• Preparing samples in readiness for3PE partner meetings

Trading

• Basic understanding of trade reports
• Basic understanding of trade decisions
• Attending Group Trade meetings

Product Awareness

• An understanding of the New Look Customer
• Basic understanding of our Customer Insight and Market Share
• Actively contributing in trend and competitor analysis, making recommendations for changes or developments
• Ongoing familiarity of the competition’s product range
• Completing and reporting back on NL store visits and competitor shops