Buyers Assistant Womenswear
Blue Diamond Group Head Office, Guernsey Full-time, 40 hours per week, office-based.
Would consider part-time of 30 hours per week for the right candidate. Salary according to experience
Blue Diamond Group is the UK’s largest Premium Garden Centre Group, with a Group turnover of
£450m and 51 centres throughout the UK and in the Channel Islands, and we are continuously growing. Our centres are widely regarded as some of the best in the country, and we have won many retail and restaurant awards. Our centres and restaurants offer style and innovation in an aspirational environment which encourages loyalty and satisfaction from our customers.
What you will be doing
- Supporting your Buyer with effective upward management of critical path issues (weekly meetings to highlight any issues/ late approvals/ delays), proposing solutions, liaising with the global supply chain
- Work with Buyers on any quality and delivery issues, agree on actions and solutions
- Providing admin support for all buying processes
- Understand the buying calendar and the range-building process and contribute to
building a commercially balanced range through active participation in product strategy, competitive benchmarking, sales history, and creative influencing opportunities
- Managing the current season samples, making sure they are developed and archived if no longer needed
- Attending and contributing to fit sessions, alongside the buyer, ensuring highest priority in line with critical path management. Preparing and measuring samples to ensure specs are ready for fit sessions
- Manage and maintain visual range planner
- Deputise confidently and effectively if Buyer is absent
- Have store awareness and deal with store product queries in a timely and professional manner
- Sending tech packs off and, in some cases, creating tech packs for cross costing.
- Responsible for selecting and approving trims in the buyer's absence
- Responsible for approving lap dip, strike-offs offs and bulk standards in the buyer's absence
- Ensure packaging & labelling for products are correct
- Showing awareness of the current trends and competitors within the market
- Responsible for checking new in category weekly, supporting your buyer with weekly Trade actions
- Full training in all aspects of the role will be provided
More about you
- You are ambitious and looking to grow with the company, always striving for improvements in all aspects of the business, you’re innovative and forward-thinking
- You may have studied a fashion-related qualification
- You may be considering a career change, or you could be at the start of your career as a school leaver or graduate
- Able to prioritise multiple deadlines and manage time effectively as this is a never-ending job and there will always be more to be done
- You're a relationship builder and find communication easy with people at all levels
- Always wanting to improve and learn, with a desire to succeed
- A keen eye for detail related to products, processes & systems
- A team player. Someone who enjoys going above and beyond to help others in the team
- You’re tenacious and have a positive ‘can do’ attitude in all things, always.
Working with us
To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to question the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We empower our colleagues, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.
Why join us
We’ve set our sights on dominating the Garden Centre Fashion sector, and because we’re a unique brand, designing and globally sourcing our own product, there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career. Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception.
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