New Look
Assistant Buyer - Lingerie & Swimwear
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Assistant Buyer – New Look
Role Location: 4 days in-office (location not specified)
We’re New Look – the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible, fun, and exciting for over 55 years. From our website, mobile app, and 300+ stores across the UK, we bring that New Look Feeling to life by working democratically, collectively, and passionately.
Our values drive everything we do: We play to win, we’re customer obsessed, and we are one — it starts with me.
The Role
As an Assistant Buyer, you’ll shape the trend-forward, commercial products our customers love. This role blends buying, strategy, supplier negotiations, trend analysis, and cross-team collaboration in an energetic, fast-paced environment.
You’ll directly support the Buyer to:
- Implement creative ideas while keeping a tight focus on commercial results.
- Work with UK and international suppliers to align on costs, quality, trends, and delivery timelines.
- Collaborate with Design, Merchandising, Technical Development, and External Teams to ensure award-winning product assortments hit the market—smartly, stylishly, and on trend.
This exciting and varied role suits someone passionate about garment innovation, exceptional customer experiences, and the ever-evolving landscape of high-street fashion.
What’s in It for You?
Discounts & Rewards
- 40% staff discount on all New Look products, plus friends & family discounts.
- Access to our vibrant live rewards platform—stack on external brands, high-street deals, and exclusive offers.
Perks & Wellbeing
- Company pension scheme—invest in your future from day one.
- Virtual GP service for you and your children—appointments at a time and place that suits you.
- Life assurance—protected from day one.
- Enhanced holiday entitlement: Buying back holiday through our ‘buy more, travel more’ scheme.
- Happy Birthday? Enjoy an extra paid day off—we love to celebrate YOU!.
Family & Lifestyle
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.
- Interest-free season ticket loans to spread the cost of your commute.
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Work-Life Balance
- Flexible commuting via Cycle2Work—improve your health while saving money.
Empowerment & Impact
- Always in partnership with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust.
- New Look is proudly inclusion-led: our culture celebrates diversity and fostering courage, and we encourages all differences to flourish.
- Development is our priority—we’ll upskill and advocate for you as you realise your potential.
Key Responsibilities
1. Planning & Strategy
- Align with strategic business objectives and translate them into actionable departmental goals.
- Forecast market trends and customer preferences to guide product strategy.
- Engage with Marketing and Ecommerce to support window displays, photoshoots, and campaigns.
- Contribute insights to Department Strategy Plans to shape growth, innovation, and customer engagement.
2. Buying & Product Development
- Support the entire product journey—from design brief to consumer-facing launch.
- Work alongside Design, Merchandising, and Technical Development.
- Negotiate optimal pricing and lead times with suppliers to boost margins while delivering premium quality.
- Research and translate trends into commercial offerings—keeping the customer top of mind.
- Ensure up-to-date Assortment Planning tools and systems reflect current data.
- Explore and uncover cost-effective, high-quality sourcing routes both local and global.
- guarantee shipment intake—tracking timelines and distribution for on-time launches.
3. Supplier & Relationship Management
- Manages supplier KPIs and ensures requirements (e.g., design repeats, sampling) are met.
- Represents New Look at sampling sessions and trade appointments—negotiate quality and logistics.
4. Trading & Analysis
- Analyse sales data, stock levels, and unit performance and address peak-and-volume challenges.
- Adapt product plans based on performance metrics, competitor insights, and market shifts.
- Share strategic reports to highlight best/worst sellers and supplier performance.
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5. Team & Team Development
- Foster a collaborative, inspiring culture—mentoring and upskilling junior colleagues.
- Collaborate with Merchandising, Design and Technical teams to deliver cohesive offerings.
- Lead by example—because our people energy is a key driver of success.
Who We’re Looking For
Essential Skills & Experience
- Fashion deepest understanding—proficient in the latest garment markets, lingerie trends, and style predictions.
- Commercial Agility: Numeracy and strong analytics to assess sales, stock, inventories, and product performance.
- End-to-end buying process experience, including product development and supplier lifecycle management.
- (No compromises) Lingerie experience is a must-to-have—insider marketing acumen is ideal to bridge creative and commercial objectives.
- Negotiation skills: Ability to buy the best materials at the best price with surety for supplier relationships.
- Communication & Collaboration: Expert at working across teams, offices, and even cultural trade challenges.
- Proactive multi-tasker—airport ready: juggling planning deadlines, assessments, suppliers, and insights without missing a beat.
Experience Preference
- Ideally, a commercial Assistant Buyer or a Senior Business Assist within the fashion/retail sector.
Key Differentiators of New Look
- A brand and company that practises inclusivity as we fabricate modern solutions—because we believe fashion shouldn’t be seen as just for a select few.
- Inclusive development: with on-going learning opportunities—Opportunities to grow with you. Assignments that don’t have a ceiling.
- Transparency: Role expectations and flex are upfront, aligned with commercial outcomes.
- Culture with Responsibility: Earn simultaneously from brands cohorts.
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At New Look, ‘What YOU bring makes all the difference— on and off the high street. Join us!**
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