Marks & Spencer
Assistant Buyer - Menswear Brands
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What's in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
What you'll do
As an Assistant Buyer, you’ll be at the heart of creating ranges that excite our customers and drive the business forward. Working in a fast-paced, collaborative team, you’ll spot opportunities, influence key decisions and help take brilliant products from first idea to shop floor.
- Turn emerging trends and customer insight into standout, commercial ranges.
- Bring bold product ideas to life alongside Buying, Merchandising, Design, Technology and global Sourcing teams.
- Use sales and market insight to shape winning decisions on product, price, colour, fit and margin.
- Build strong supplier relationships to secure exceptional value, quality and speed to market.
- Take ownership of key moments across the critical path, from product development and Tech Packs to approvals and range sign-off.
- Play an active role in growing the department, our digital offer and our international business.
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Who you are
- Buying experience in a fast-moving retail environment and an instinct for what customers will want next.
- A sharp commercial mindset, with the confidence to turn data and insight into action.
- Energy, curiosity and a genuine passion for discovering and developing great products.
- Excellent organisation and critical-path management, with the drive to make things happen.
- A natural ability to collaborate, influence and build trusted relationships across teams and with suppliers.
- Knowledge of sourcing, negotiation, materials and merchandise planning, plus an ambition to think digitally and globally.
Ready to shape what customers will love next? Join a fast-paced, creative Buying team where your ideas will be heard, your commercial instinct will make an impact and every day brings the chance to discover something new.
Everyone's Welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
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M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team.
Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process and we are happy to talk smart/flexible working.
From Merchandising and Marketing - Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning - our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time.
As we accelerate the transformation of our business to suit the changing needs of our customer, we need results-driven colleagues that not only have a passion for our product, but a strong team working ethos, creativity and a healthy commercial drive to join us on our journey.
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