Sainsbury's
Assistant Buyer - Seasonals
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About the team
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Seasonals team within GM Commercial. You will work across a varied and highly visible category, from Outdoor Living accessories that help customers create inviting garden spaces to Dinnerware, licensed lunch boxes and branded drinkware. With a mix of seasonal trading, well-known suppliers and own-label development, the role offers broad exposure across the end-to-end buying cycle.
More about the role
As Assistant Buyer, you will support the Buyer or Senior Buyer to deliver category sales, margin and supplier income targets. During spring and summer, you will help build and trade the Outdoor Living accessories range, including products such as outdoor rugs, cushions and lighting, while playing a key role in promotional planning across the Seasonals department.
As the category moves into autumn and winter, your focus will also include Dinnerware and related ranges. Day to day, you will analyse performance, review pricing and competitors, coordinate samples and approvals, work with suppliers and cross-functional teams, and keep product and promotional activity moving against the critical path. The role is based at Ansty and requires regular travel to Bradwell, Milton Keynes for sample activity, particularly during peak periods.
More about you
You will have experience working as an Assistant Buyer and be able to demonstrate involvement in range, promotional and supplier activity. You are comfortable using sales, margin, pricing and market information to make recommendations, and you understand the importance of accurate administration, product data and delivery against fixed milestones.
You build effective relationships with suppliers and colleagues, communicate clearly and take accountability for delivery. You will be organised, commercially focused and adaptable, with the confidence to manage changing priorities across a fast-moving seasonal category.
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Essential criteria
- Current or previous experience working as an Assistant Buyer, including responsibility for range, promotional or supplier activity
- Ability to analyse sales, margin, pricing, customer or competitor information and use it to make a commercial recommendation
- Experience coordinating product, range or promotional activity against fixed milestones while maintaining accurate administration and data
- Evidence of working effectively with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver an agreed commercial outcome
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word, including using spreadsheets to organise, analyse and present commercial information
RESPONSIBILITIES
At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation, you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.
QUALIFICATIONS
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new-whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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