Buyers Admin Assistant – Womenswear

📍 Location: Redfields Garden Centre Buying Office, Hampshire
🕒 Full Time | 40 hours per week | Office-Based

Join the UK’s Leading Premium Garden Centre Group

At Blue Diamond Group, we’re proud to be the largest premium garden centre retailer in the UK, with a turnover of £450 million and 55 centres across the UK and Channel Islands. Our award-winning garden centres and restaurants are known for their style, innovation, and aspirational retail experience — and fashion is at the heart of that experience.

We are now on a mission to transform garden centre fashion into a recognised and admired retail sector. As part of our fast-paced and ambitious Womenswear Buying team, you'll play a key role in shaping a stylish, trend-led range that delights our customers and sets us apart from the rest.

🧵 What You’ll Be Doing

As a Buyers Admin Assistant, you’ll be an essential part of the buying process — supporting your Buyer across product development, critical path management, and range building. This is a fast-paced environment and a detail-driven role where your creativity, organisational skills, and eye for trends will shine.

🔑 Your Key Responsibilities

• Solely managing the department critical path — tracking timelines, highlighting delays, and suggesting solutions in weekly meetings
• Assist with quality, fit, and delivery issues, proposing resolutions and following up with suppliers
• Provide administrative support across all aspects of the buying process
• Attend supplier meetings and pre-season design reviews, contributing ideas and feedback
• Actively support the Buyer in range building through trend research, sales analysis, and competitor benchmarking
• Manage department samples — ensuring they are organised, accessible, and archived when needed
• Attend and contribute to fit sessions, ensuring garments meet expectations and align with the delivery schedule
• Maintain the department range planner with up-to-date product information
• Confidently deputise for the Buyer during periods of absence
• Respond to store product queries promptly and professionally
• Approve trims, lap dips, strike-offs, and bulk standards when required
• Ensure all packaging and labelling meets brand and legal standards
• Collate weekly trade documents for the department, supporting the Buyer with weekly trade actions
• Assist the Buyer in preparing for sign-off meetings
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships

💡 About You

We’re looking for someone who’s ready to dive in, roll up their sleeves, and grow with us.

🎯 You’ll Need To

• Hold a fashion-related qualification or have experience working in a fashion buying environment
• Be early in your career or returning to work after a break — we welcome diverse backgrounds
• Have strong time management and the ability to handle multiple priorities at once
• Be a great communicator and natural relationship builder at all levels
• Have an eye for emerging trends and an ability to draw inspiration from everywhere
• Be detail-oriented — especially when it comes to product quality, data, and processes
• Love working as part of a collaborative team, and be willing to go the extra mile
• Be tenacious, proactive, and always up for a challenge

🌟 Working With Us

To thrive at Blue Diamond, you’ll need to love working with pace and be open to constant change. We empower our teams to question the status quo, challenge convention, and embrace innovation. You’ll have real autonomy, real responsibility, and the chance to make a real impact.

🚀 Why Join Us?

• Be part of a unique and growing fashion division within a leading retail group
• Work with in-house designed and sourced collections — from concept to customer
• Real opportunity for progression as we continue to grow and lead in Garden Centre Fashion
• Industry-leading salary and the chance to build your career in a dynamic, supportive team
• A workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone can bring their full selves to work

Ready to Grow Your Career in Fashion Buying?

Apply now to join a passionate, creative team that’s redefining retail fashion — one garden centre at a time.