Level 2 Assistant Buyer – Baby & LWC Job Vacancy in The White Company London – Updated today

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Company Name : The White Company
Location : London
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Job Description : Our Story

From its inception in 1994, Chrissie Rucker’s vision was to build a company that specialised in stylish, white, designer-quality items for the home that were not only exceptional quality, but also outstanding value for money. In addition to this devotion to simplicity, it was imperative the customer was put at the heart of everything and provided with a second-to-none shopping experience – and so The White Company was born.

Today, the company that began as a 12-page mail-order brochure has become one of the UK’s fast-growing multi-channel retailers and a leading lifestyle brand with 60 stores across the UK and impressive global growth. The White Company also has concessions in selected Nordstrom stores in the US, and a highly successful online business.

Our Role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Clothing Buying team! The Assistant Buyer will support the Baby & Little White Company Buyer with ensuring that sales and profit targets are met through the development of a commercial, well balanced product range in keeping with Brand objectives. With increased responsibility in a given category or area, demonstrate excellent market awareness as well as flare for innovation. To manage and develop the junior members of the team as appropriate.

What you’ll be doing

Product Development

To assist the Buyer in building a balanced, customer focused range, working closely with Design & Creative teams to ensure the product range is sufficiently innovative, driving the newness suitable for the needs of all business channels.
Assist the Buyer in diving business initiatives, new products & on-boarding new suppliers
Demonstrate a sound understanding of product construction/fit with the ability to contribute to product reviews. Ability to propose recommendations on lab dips and bulk submissions
To work closely with the QA department throughout the development process to ensure sealing stages are running to critical path requirements, that we can meet quality standards, highlighting product risk where necessary
Manage a complex critical path with varied lead times, ability to work efficiently across seasons ensuring key dates and risk is managed appropriately
To ensure that all product line lists, and product sheets are correctly maintained on the system in line with departmental deadlines.
Support product business meeting across functions, shoot outfitting, store training. Participating as an ambassador for your product areas
Understanding of your target margin and the ability to highlight areas of risk
Manage department space efficiently with junior team

Supplier Management

To maintain regular communication with suppliers and to tackle issues in a timely manner. To escalate risk as necessary to the Buyer in order to protect this partnership and manage any poor performance effectively
Manage the co-ordination of product brief sheets to samples and necessary information to enable selection meetings to run efficiently and to ensure deadlines are met
Ability to deputise for Buyer and actively contribute to the running and organisation of supplier meetings
To assist the Buyer in collating the sourcing strategy and risk management.
In given area demonstrate a good working practise with supply base, sharing information of trend, trade & competition activity to gain further insight
Ensure suppliers have a full understanding of standard packaging & ticketing details. Drive new ticket development based on unique product specifications

Commercial Awareness

Building strong relationships with both internal & external business partners
Ability to deputise for Buyer in running weekly CP meetings ensuring all stakeholders are present and action points agreed and escalated
To have a good understanding of the target customer through regular store visits & be pro-active in seeking customer feedback from all business channels.
To undertake store visits and competitor appraisals. Completing thorough assessment and recommendations on both trading, price positioning and product development for UK & US market
To understand the key sales, profit and margin drivers across the business and the impact of your individual responsibility area & general role
To develop a robust understanding of the weekly pack and sales by line reports, in order to propose trading actions, to identify opportunities across all channels and trade open to buy
For a designated product area to demonstrate proficient range building skills. Involvement in store & customer profiling to gain further understanding on range construction planning.
Contribute to departmental Strategy seasonally, feeding in both research & performance feedback
Receive and challenge open costing’s, display a good understanding of the costing model
Demonstrate a clear passion for your area, with an eagerness to increase understanding, taking pride in your product, presentation, accuracy & new challenges

Management, Training and Development

To continually review processes and controls, initiating improvements in best practise as necessary.
To assist in the development and training of the BA’s, identifying areas of ‘stretch’.
To manage the BA on a day-to-day basis ensuring accuracy and efficiency in their work.
To adopt a positive and proactive approach to training and development, to participate fully in all team related activities.
To ensure that stores, web team and call centre receive product communication as necessary, challenge opportunities to improve sales performance.
Create training support documentation for use by wider business, White Pages & Business Handover Pack
What we’ll offer you

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

Discount -Up to 50% discount (dependant on contract type)
Holiday – 23 days rising to 25 after length of service
Perkplace Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across wellbeing and lifestyle
Wagestream Money Management app – access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing

Additional Benefits

Fruit basket daily
Tea and coffee provided
Working from Home – option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays
Social – Christmas party/social events throughout the year
Seasonal Sample Sales
Volunteer Day – with a charity of your choice
Great Location – Close to transport links – over ground Shepherds Bush station /underground White City & Wood Lane stations. Westfield shopping centre with shops restaurants/bars/cinema and gyms

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