Assistant Buyer
hace 2 días
Manchester
🚀 We’re Hiring: Assistant Buyer 📍 Location: Onsite at Manchester HQ 🕒 Full-time | Competitive Salary + Perks Join one of the fastest-growing retailers in the UK and be part of something extraordinary. With exponential year-on-year growth, a loyal and rapidly expanding customer base, and a product range that’s turning heads across the UK, we’re on a mission to make style, quality and value accessible for every home. We’re now looking for a highly organised Buying Assistant to support our Buying Team in delivering commercially successful ranges that inspire and engage our customers. As a Buying Assistant, you’ll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end buying process – from critical path management and sample approval through to product launches and campaign planning. You’ll work closely with buyers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to ensure deadlines are met and ranges are brought to market on time. This is a great opportunity for someone with Buying Admin experience to step up, expand their skills, and grow within a fast-paced, creative retail environment. 🛍️ What You’ll Be Doing: • Critical Path Management – taking full responsibility for depts CP., • Sample Management – making sure all samples are organised and approved on time, • Responsible for approval of pre shipment inspections, • Creation and management of label artwork, • Assisting Buyer in range building and development- including attending comp shops and online comp shopping, • Oversee and sign off the sample process – lab dips/strike offs, red seals and gold seals, • Strong understanding of our target consumer, competitors and marketplace platforms, • Liaise with far east factories to ensure that deadlines are met, • Ensure we are achieving set launch dates, • Assist with the development of product ranges across our brands, contributing new ideas that are relevant for each brands target market, • Consistently keep up to date with new trends, colours and fabrics, • Carrying out in-store and online competitor analysis and SWOT reports to assist Buyer in buys, • Communicating with the Ecommerce team to help support Campaigns and Photo Shoots, • Organizing and giving inspiration/ guidance to studio for photography styling per range. 💡 What You’ll Bring: • Minimum 2 years’ experience in Buying Administration within a Head Office environment., • Wide market awareness across Home Value Retailers in the market, • Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment., • Excellent communication and presentation skills., • Solid commercial awareness with strong understanding of target consumer and competitors., • Proficiency in Excel and strong overall IT skills., • High level of accuracy and attention to detail., • Understanding of supply chains and product development timelines., • Creative flair and an eye for trends, colour, and product., • Proactive attitude and eagerness to learn and grow. Why Join Us? • A creative and collaborative environment., • Casual dress, • Company events, • Company pension, • Employee discount, • Free parking 👀 Sound Like You? At OHS, you won’t just join a team — you’ll be part of a fast-moving retail success story. If you’re ambitious, collaborative, and excited by scale, apply today and help shape the future of home shopping in the UK. 📩 Apply now!