Superdrug
Buying Assistant (part time 3 days a week)
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🌟Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!🌟
đź“ŤLocation
East Croydon
đź•’Hours
22.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 1 day working from home and 2 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
đź’·Salary
Competitive
🎉Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Role Purpose
📅Here's the exciting bit… A day includes:
The buying assistant role is critical in supporting the effective running of the category to deliver the commercial plan. Working within the commercial trading team to coordinate promotions and ensuring the accurate and effective administration of our products, to enable the brand to provide a breadth of range inclusive to all our customers, at a price they love. This role reports to Senior Buyer for Superdrug Stores Plc.
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đź“ťKey Responsibilities
- Manage promotional end to end process including loading of promotions and queries as well as requesting promotional material from suppliers
- Own and execute POS management
- Processing and checking financial retros as well as raising invoices
- Ensuring that New product and supplier creation are seamless and in line with business deadlines
- Processing changes to ensure Superdrug maintains its competitive nature within the market
- Opportunity to progress skills within Buying through trade reporting when team are on annual leave
- Sample requests from suppliers for various marketing activities
Core Skills
- Superbly organised with history of prioritising workload(s)
- Diligent with strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication
- Desire to challenge the norm
- Comfortability with Microsoft, in particular Excel
- System friendly (there will be a few to learn!)
What You Need To Succeed
- Ideally degree education but not essential
- Proficient on Microsoft programs especially Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Previous Experience In Buying Environment Desired But Not Essential
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đź’ˇHere's what's in it for you:
- 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
- Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
- Company pension matching and bonus
- We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
Come and be part of something special!
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