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Senior Assistant Buyer | Beauty & Grooming
ASOS
London, , United Kingdom
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We’re looking for a Senior Assistant Buyer to join our growing Beauty & Grooming team. We are on the look out to meet with beauty lovers, skincare experts and someone who knows their beard trimmers from their contour kit! We are looking to meet someone who is passionate about the Beauty & Grooming industry both professionally and personally to really drive the growth of this expanding team.
What you’ll be doing…
• Working with your Buyer to range build your department to deliver sales and profit plans and in turn lead to a consistently high customer experience.
• Keeping up to date with both on-line and bricks and mortar competitor activity, reviewing product strategy in light of competitor activity/initiatives.
• Offering suggestions for new brands and products for ASOS
• Building excellent relationships with your brands - this is key especially when negotiating buying terms and delivery terms
• The buying teams are also incredibly reactive so you will work with your buyer to trade within the season to potientialise sales and profits and ensure that we have the most commercial and relevant ranges
• Working closely with the merchandising teams to build the range, analyse figures and react to sales
• Overseeing the development and training of the Buyers Administrators within the team
We’d love to meet, someone who…
• Is currently at Assistant Buyer level
• Is knowledgeable about the Beauty & Grooming industry professionally and personally
• Manages a Buyers Administrator
• Builds excellent relationships with suppliers
• Has an awareness of current and future beauty trends
• Understands who the ASOS customer is and be able to find the latest trends relevant for them
• Is super organised, able to use initiative and to work in a high pressured environment
• Is able to manage and develop junior team members
What’s in it for you…
• Generous salary, bonus and pension matching
• Great development programmes
• Amazing offices and great culture
• 25 days holiday plus one extra day for your birthday
• Subsidised gym and canteen
• Huge staff discount and regular sample sales
• Life Insurance, medical care, cycle to work scheme
• And tons more…
Buying Team at ASOS
ASOS is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do. The Buying team are instrumental in making ASOS the first for fashion and beauty trend. Within our Own Buy function, our teams focus on developing and delivering a range that pushes the boundaries and meets the needs of our customer. The Buyers work closely with a number of business areas including Design, Merchandising, Marketing and Garment Technology and has relationships with a wide supplier base ensuring that the product we deliver is the best it can be! The Branded buying teams are responsible for creating & sourcing the brand mix for their department, covering big commercial brands through to high end designers and emerging brands to offer our customer the most exciting fashion trends and create a point of difference in the global market.