Senior Assistant Buyer – Accessories & Footwear

Permanent | Full-time

London (Hybrid) - 3 days a week in London office

Salary: £34,500 per annum

We are looking for a Senior Assistant Buyer to join our Accessories and Footwear team based in our London office. Experience within this area is ideal but not essential. A passion for product and customer is a must and an eagerness to learn within a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Buyer to achieve individual financials including sales, margin, and profit.
• Secure the best prices through effective negotiation, ensuring our offers remain highly competitive throughout the sales period.
• Manage suppliers and ownership of sales on a weekly basis.
• Continuously source new brands, ensuring we have the best product and offers whilst making speedy and commercial decisions.
• Execute daily sales in line with monthly targets offering a balanced range with sales targeted at the customer.
• Develop and review a monthly strategy with the Buyer to meet business targets, adjusting as needed.
• Work with support functions and provide all sale collateral within the guidelines of the critical path.
• Ensure critical path deadlines are met and the wider teams are not jeopardised.
• Understanding of competition, brands, and keeping up to date information on competitive sales to assure we are offering the best sale within the time the sales are live. Regularly review online competition and share innovative ideas.
• Utilise market knowledge to negotiate the best value for BrandAlley customers, while delivering a high sell-through for the brand.
• Attend weekly trade meetings to analyse and establish current performance in order to deliver an action plan to ensure sales targets are met.
• Collaborate with marketing and production to ensure all sales are traded and have the marketing support to overachieve.
• Attend brand meetings with Buyer to create understanding of high value negotiations and sale planning.