Red Door Recruitment
Part Time Retail Buyer
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A successful and fast growing organisation based in St Albans are looking for a Buyer to join a busy team.
Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.
The Buyer will be responsible for supporting and working with the Account Management Team & Technical Team on resourcing projects/new product launches & critical path management for continuity product, as well as providing administrative support to the Buying/Sourcing Team.
What’s In It For You
- Salary: £27,200 (£34k FTE)
- Hours: 30hrs per week, 4 days per week - 2 compulsory days in office Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 days home working
- 4x salary Life Insurance
- 24 days holidays increasing up to 29 with length of service
- Employees can buy up to 5 days holiday full time equivalent in any one holiday year
- 25% discount on products including immediate family
- Standard Life Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme
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- Responsible for sample development, managing sourcing sheets and critical path
- Ensuring day-to-day follow up with factories & suppliers is actioned and relevant teams are kept up to date
- Maintaining swatch book library and sourcing new fabrics with a focus on sustainability
- Support sign off for new products/ranges
- Ensure Technical Packs are correct for the factory & the Merchandising team
- Provide the Merchandising team with all relevant product detail; Technical Packs, Visuals & Cost prices to ensure orders are raised accurately and efficiently
- Support fit process
- Support of packaging developments
- Handle all submissions, bulks & lab dips and ensuring comments are sent on time.
- Ensure product quality is kept up to standard
- Have a good technical understanding of all industry fabric
- Provide support to the Buying Manager/Technical Team to ensure all factories are following company guidelines
- Provide administrative support to the Buying/Sourcing team, as required
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What The Employer Is Looking For
- Experience in buying and/or product development, ideally experienced working on clothing
- Technical Fabric knowledge desirable
- Strong organisational skills with a systematic approach to working
- Ability to take initiative and work independently, as well as in a team
- Capability of working on multiple projects in parallel & prioritising own workload
- Experience working to a Product Development/Production calendar and tight deadlines
- Ability to cope under pressure to meet the demand of the business
- Experience of working closely with manufacturers on development
Red Door Recruitment is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Full details available on our website.
Please note due to the number of applications we often receive; only shortlisted applicants will be contacted
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