MR PORTER
Assistant Buyer @NET-A-PORTER
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ASSISTANT BUYER – NET-A-PORTER
NET-A-PORTER is the leading luxury fashion destination for women. The first digital platform of its kind, NET-A-PORTER has revolutionised the way women shop, delivering fashion, fine jewelry & watches and lifestyle collections to the world’s most discerning women.
Today, NET-A-PORTER continues to own discovery, inspiration, exceptional curation, customer experience and engaging storytelling. NET-A-PORTER creates exclusive, personalised experiences for its EIPs (Extremely Important People), with dedicated Personal Shoppers and invitation-only moments. PORTER, the editorial voice of NET-A-PORTER, entertains and inspires women through daily content, and tells the stories of incredible women across the globe.
NET-A-PORTER are now seeking an Assistant Buyer to join the team. Some of the essentials for you to know are:
Location:
- Our Westfield office in London
Reporting into:
- Buyer
Team Size Approx:
- 4
Benefits:
- A competitive salary
- A pension that both you and the company contribute to
- A portal with an array of discounts on things like theme park and cinema tickets
- Our famous staff discount along with exclusive staff sales
- Private healthcare for you and your family
- Flexible working
- A chance to be part of a fun and caring team that support each other
Responsibilities:
Market Support and Buying Appointments:
- Oversee preparation of vendor packs, ensuring that BAAs have these compiled at an appropriate time ahead of trips.
- Attend ad-hoc buying appointments and if needed deputise in Buyers absence to gather product info for review.
- Review sales performance in order to offer informed product opinion within the appointment, based on sales history.
Order Management:
- Complete buy sheets after buying appointments in preparation for Buyer to write the buy.
- Raise and send orders to vendors, managing the ordering process within the YNAP system.
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Operational Support:
- Oversee order confirmation and RRP entry process, ensuring BAAs are receiving in a timely and organized manner, adhering to set deadlines.
- Create trade sheets for weekly meetings to feedback to buyers including delivery highlights / lowlights, key editorial and marketing support features, as well as pulling together best and worst sellers information.
- Constantly hawk products on site, taking responsibility for the display of your departments offer (highlighting tricky styling, limited or incorrect product editorial, questionable pricing, duplicated products).
- Compile the “Buybles” presentation, including new brand, exclusive capsule and top spends information.
Sales Analysis & Stock Optimization:
- Analyse weekly sales data to suggest repeats and/or swaps, presenting proposals to Buyer & Merchandiser, and subsequently liaising with vendors to action.
- Manage the repeat and swap process to ensure full advantage is taken of vendor stock availability, as well as quickest possible delivery of stock into the business.
- Undertake competitive shopping analysis (bricks and mortar & online) to review offer vs NAP, ensure pricing is aligned for every upload, and to check deliveries vs NAP.
Cross-Functional Work:
- Support Press, Marketing and Editorial functions in regard to new brand and exclusive launches, supplying buy sheets, delivery and upload updates, style suggestions as necessary.
Team Support:
- Manage the day-to-day workload of the Buyers Admin Assistant including setting of objectives and weekly catch ups.
- Coach the Buyers Admin Assistant to constantly review efficiency and maintain high standards of working practices to drive sell thru, scalability and improve department KPIs.
- Undertake Ad hoc projects for Buyers and Buying Director.
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The type of person we are looking for:
- Experience at AB/BAA or equivalent level gained in a fast-paced fashion retail buying or merchandising environment with strong administrative skills.
- Strong analytical and advanced MS Office skills, particularly in Excel, PowerPoint & Word.
- Commercial Awareness – understanding of our business, products and competition.
- Strong eye for detail and organisational skills and strives for a high level of accuracy.
- The ability to work with stringent deadlines.
- A great sense of humour, personal style and attitude.
To Apply:
From the moment you walk through our doors and join the YOOX NET-A-PORTER team we are committed to making your journey with us inspirational and Evolutionary.
If you are passionate, committed and thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, then please apply with a CV.
LuxExperience is an equal opportunities employer, we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that diversity brings to our workplace, our business and our customers. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of race and nationality, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.
Experience Level:
- Entry level
Workplace Type:
- Hybrid
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