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Assistant Buyer
Location: George House
Employment Type: Full time
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category: Buying
Closing Date: 20 August 2026
Job Description
Are you interested in kickstarting a career in Buying? Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast-moving and ever-changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter. From daily sales and profit reports, to admin support and marketing, getting everything accurate is hugely important. And doing it as efficiently as possible will bring savings to our customers as well as to our business.
As an Assistant Buyer in George, your role is to assist in sourcing and developing a commercial and fashionable product offer that meets customer and market needs, all while maximising profitability. You'll be responsible for managing product-related administration, critical path timelines, and supplier relationships.
Key Responsibilities
Product and Range Management
- Trade Plan Support: Assist the buyer in creating and delivering a customer-focused trade plan, with a particular focus on key events and license products.
- Sample Management: Manage product samples for dotcom, marketing, customer journey, gold seals, etc.
- Admin Management: Complete all buying administrative tasks related to product development.
- Critical Path Management: Ensure all product milestones (such as sample approvals, lap dips, fabric and print approvals) are met on time. Address any time delays and communicate impacts to the team via regular critical path meetings.
- Range Plan Accuracy: Ensure that all product and category data is accurately entered in the range plan and other relevant buying systems. Ensure price and product (p&p) confirmations in Adjuno and sign off gold seals are executed accurately and timely.
- Packaging and Sustainability Requirements: Ensure products meet the correct packaging and sustainability specifications.
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Supplier and Sourcing
- Supplier Relations: Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, focusing on effective communication.
- Sustainability: Handle all administrative tasks relating to sustainability, ensuring compliance with current and upcoming legislation, as well as ethical and legal standards.
Trade Performance & Analysis
- Sales Tracking: Review best and worst selling products weekly and seasonally with buying and merch, present findings to the team with actionable recommendations.
- Market Analysis: Prepare reports on market share, competitor performance, and pricing, providing insights on how to improve the department's positioning.
Sustainability & Compliance
- Keep an eye on potential risks in the market, including trends, customer behaviours, and competitor moves, and contribute to plans to address these opportunities or risks.
Cross-Department Collaboration
- Team Engagement: Work closely with buying, merchandising, design, retail, and online teams.
- Marketing: Prepare for marketing selections. Complete marketing database to ensure product availability aligns for retail and online.
- Customer Journey: Prepare for customer journey meetings collaborating with the store visualisation team to ensure products are available for customer journey meetings, both online and in-store sales.
Skills & Experience
- Organizational Skills: Strong administration and organizational abilities, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently and meet deadlines.
- A keen interest in fashion, product development, and a desire to learn more about the retail buying process.
- Ability to work effectively within a team, maintaining strong communication with both internal and external partners.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving with a "can-do" attitude, willing to take initiative and seek solutions.
- A solid understanding of market trends, competitor pricing strategies, and customer demands, with the ability to translate this into actionable insights.
- Knowledge of sustainable practices and the ability to ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
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Everything You'll Love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores, or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in-store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans, and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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