What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buying Admin Assistant position at SEVENSTORE?
Type: Permanent
Description: Buying Admin Assistant
Location: Head Office, Rochdale
Reporting into the Senior Buyer you will be responsible for supporting all areas of the Buying team, including trade reporting, stock ordering, market reserch, seasonal look books and administrative tasks. Alongside providing additional information and support to other areas of the business including Ecommerce, Merchandising and Marketing. The BAA is heavily involved with all aspects of the Buying department, often attending high-profile brand appointments and catwalk shows.
This is an incredible opportunity for a highly-organised and articulate individual with a passion for a broad spectrum of global brands. This entry-level position would be ideal for someone who wants to start their career in a progressive retail environmment with a unique brand mix.
About the role...
- Provide effective administration for the Buying team.
- Support Buyers on a day to day basis.
- Ensure excellent communication and interaction with other departments.
- Create information packs ahead of buying trips ensuring all relevant files are included.
- Create seasonal look books to present back to the wider SEVENSTORE team.
- Building Range Plans.
- Seasonal trend analysis.
About You...
- Honours degree in Buying or a similar industry is ideal but not essential if you can show evidence of market experience.
- You should be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office Skills – particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Be commercially aware of our market - understanding our ideals, brands and strategy.
- Strong eye for detail and strives for a high level of accuracy.
- The ability to work to tight deadlines .
- A strong work ethic and ability to multi-task.
- Demonstrate your proactivity in sourcing new ideas and inspiration related to our business (e.g. catwalk trends, social media, street style, blogs, popular culture, media, travel etc.)
What we offer:
- Competitive pay
- Career progression
- Staff discount
- 28 days holiday
- Company pension scheme
Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are iterating concepts for SEVENSTORE.COM. Diversity for us is about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.
Recruitment Process
To apply for this position, please send through your application to recruitment@sevenstore.com with the name of the job you’re applying for in the subject line.
We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit, you’ll meet with a few members of the SEVENSTORE team for an informal chat about the role over a video call, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.
With the COVID-19 situation our teams are all working remotely, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such we’ll help make the interview process as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face.
We are looking for talented people who understand the ethos, product and culture of SEVENSTORE. Take a look at all our available positions below. Please send through your applications to recruitment@sevenstore.com with the name of the job you’re applying for in the subject line.