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As an experienced Assistant Buyer at boohooMAN you'll be innovative, driven and will thrive in a fast-paced environment. You'll be responsible for driving the success of the Activewear department within boohooMAN! Activewear is an area that is continuing to grow and is becoming one of our best selling categories!
To be a successful Assistant Buyer you'll constantly review the critical path to ensure that department targets as well as deliveries are met on time and inline with the brand's strategy. Additionally you'll be passionate about finding gaps in the market and continuing boohooMAN's success. This role is based from our Manchester office.
Your team
We’re boohooMAN. Our menswear collections and ground-breaking campaigns have taken the market by storm. We want to be the world’s number one streetwear brand, and our affordable and accessible looks have allowed us to push boundaries and bring the latest styles to life. We focus on our customer’s style and confidence, setting trends and offering choice.
Our vision is simple. We want to give our incredible customers what they want, when they want it. Our unique test and repeat model is the secret to our success. We travel the world and buy small quantities across a wide range – this lets us see what customers like, then we buy more. Seeing the popularity of our choices and products gives us a feeling of satisfaction and a job well done. We admit it’s addictive and a real source of pride for us.
What you'll be doing
- Managing a BAA on critical path and OPO management to ensure department targets are achieved and deliveries are on time.
- Negotiating cost prices to achieve best prices to meet department targets.
- Understanding open costings including fabric prices, consumption and fit amend implications.
- Proactively in the market looking at competitors and upcoming trends to incorporate into our newness.
- Awareness of department strategy, frameworks and Open To Buy with the support of the buyer and merchandising team.
- Accountable for checking new in product daily to ensure all details of each product are correct online.
- Ownership of fit sessions and actioning fit comments direct to suppliers.
- Supporting the Buyer to ensure sign offs are happening within the time frames and all suppliers have been communicated too.
We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We want you to think big. Think trends. Be bold. Be brave.
About you
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 challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.
More about you
- Experience within a previous buying role- ideally within menswear but not essential.
- Proven experience using Microsoft Excel.
- Comfortable with the use of a critical path and supporting the BAA with managing this task.
- Comfortable working at pace. Agility is something you pride yourself on.
- A team player. Someone who enjoys going above and beyond to support others in the team where needed, especially during peak times.
- Passionate about all things boohooMAN.
Why join us
We’ve set our sights on dominating the global e-commerce fashion market, and because we’re 13 brands (and counting), 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.
- You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes
- Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
- Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
- There’s up to 40% discount off our all of our brands
- Our social calendar? Next level
- With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe (some are dog friendly!), we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work.
