Assistant Buyer - Seasonals
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Key details
- Location
- Coventry, United Kingdom
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Entry level
- Job type
- Full-time
- Function
- Finance & Accounting
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 2w ago
Skills
About the role
About the team
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Seasonals team within GM Commercial. You will work across a varied and highly visible category, from Outdoor Living accessories that help customers create inviting garden spaces to Dinnerware, licensed lunch boxes and branded drinkware. With a mix of seasonal trading, well-known suppliers and own-label development, the role offers broad exposure across the end-to-end buying cycle.
More about the role
As Assistant Buyer, you will support the Buyer or Senior Buyer to deliver category sales, margin and supplier income targets. During spring and summer, you will help build and trade the Outdoor Living accessories range, including products such as outdoor rugs, cushions and lighting, while playing a key role in promotional planning across the Seasonals department.
As the category moves into autumn and winter, your focus will also include Dinnerware and related ranges. Day to day, you will analyse performance, review pricing and competitors, coordinate samples and approvals, work with suppliers and cross-functional teams, and keep product and promotional activity moving against the critical path. The role is based at Ansty and requires regular travel to Bradwell, Milton Keynes for sample activity, particularly during peak periods.
More about you
You will have experience working as an Assistant Buyer and be able to demonstrate involvement in range, promotional and supplier activity. You are comfortable using sales, margin, pricing and market information to make recommendations, and you understand the importance of accurate administration, product data and delivery against fixed milestones.
You build effective relationships with suppliers and colleagues, communicate clearly and take accountability for delivery. You will be organised, commercially focused and adaptable, with the confidence to manage changing priorities across a fast-moving seasonal category.
Essential criteria
Current or previous experience working as an Assistant Buyer, including responsibility for range, promotional or supplier activity
Ability to analyse sales, margin, pricing, customer or competitor information and use it to make a commercial recommendation
Experience coordinating product, range or promotional activity against fixed milestones while maintaining accurate administration and data
Evidence of working effectively with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver an agreed commercial outcome
Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word, including using spreadsheets to organise, analyse and present commercial information
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