Assistant Buyer - Own Brand Menswear

About the team.

I have a fantastic role available for an Assistant Buyer working in our Own Brand Menswear team based in Liverpool. This role is open for external and internal applicants who are looking to take ownership of a multi-category department. The team have gone from strength to strength and its a very exciting time to join.

About the role.

We have a really exciting opportunity here at the The Very Group. We are looking for an Assistant Buyer for our Own Brand team. You’ll report directly into the Buyer for support and have lots of opportunity to further develop your skills. You will get a great amount of exposure and the opportunity to take ownership of this fast growing category.

Day to day you will be owning the end to end process of setting up products to launch on our site using your understanding of category critical path, supply base and trading calendar. You will work with closely with internal marketing activity and ensure photography for gallery is receipted in line with critical path. You will have a focus on quality and will create collections that capture our target customer.

Whilst reacting and responding to trade daily and taking appropriate actions to drives sales, you will ensure own brand are on track to hit their budget and to maximise all opportunities for growth.

This role is suitable for an experienced Assistant Buyer who is looking to gain a great deal of autonomy and exposure in a role. The experience gained in having full accountability, will ensure your development into a Junior Buyer level role. The successful applicant will play a pivotal role in delivering the planned growth against fashion across the next 5 years business strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES:

Relationship management: both internally and externally will be important, building strong relationships to maximise commercial opportunities.

Key relationships day to day will include email management with supply chain, VM colleagues and central data admin team

Commercial awareness: Awareness of the market is key, keeping track of competitor activity, market trends, price positioning and highlighting new brands to market & on competitor webpages to team.

Ensuring weekly checks of imagery, price and relevant copy.

Our benefits.

• Highly competitive salary for the successful applicant
• £250.00 flexible benefits allowance
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays + option to buy or sell 5
• Flexible working options with our hybrid working model
• Up to 25% discount across the categories
• Health and wellbeing agenda
• Private pension matched at 6%
• Bonus potential (performance and business related)
• On-site discounted restaurant and coffee houses
• Cycle to work scheme

How to apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about retail looking for their next career move. If you're interested to find out more, please contact Kieran Grundy in the talent acquisition team at The Very Group or apply online.

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you may be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS and CRB check.

If you’re a current employee of The Very Group, please apply via Talent Online as an internal applicant.

We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About us.

Hey, we’re The Very Group. Home of Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com, and a team of 4,500 super-talented people.

We’ve been reinventing shopping experiences for over a century. Technology has played a huge part in that, helping us transition from catalogues’ to pureplay online retail, but we’re not the finished article.

As the UK's largest integrated online retailer and financial services provider, we have a pretty unique position across three huge industries (tech, credit, retail) and our ambition is bold, to build the number one shopping destination for shoppers who value credit anywhere online.

But we believe with our passion and track record for reinvention, we can improve how the world pays and shops for the things they love.

Want to join the reinvention? Apply now...

We know that our expectations are high, as are our ambitions as a business.

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Demonstrate buying experience in Own Brand (Menswear preferred but not essential)
• Ecommerce experience is desirable
• Be operating as an Assistant Buyer with a minimum of 2 years at this level
• Excellent knowledge of excel
• Creative with numbers - able to produce and analyse reporting in an articulate way
• Able to lead within peers
• Proven experience of building relationships, internal, external & international - working cross functionally and collaboratively
• Understands our customer
• Problem solving/strategic thinking
• Decision making skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload
• Negotiating skills
• Planning & Organisation
• Initiative