Assistant Buyer - Label Home

Working Pattern: Typically 3/4 days in office, with core hours flexible between 8am-6pm.

Next is the biggest fashion and lifestyle retailer within the UK & Europe’s largest online clothing retailer. There are over 500 stores in the UK, representing 8.3million square feet of retail space. We have around 45,000 employees. We have 8 million customers on the website selling in 72 countries selecting from 280 million products which are sold by us each year. Our brand is highly trusted. Everything we do represents genuine value for money.

With our online business constantly growing, Total Platform continuing to strengthen and our retail stores remaining distinguished for our customer base, our buyers have a big responsibility to create attractive and profitable product ranges across the business. They collaborate with our Designers, Merchandisers and Technologists to put together stylish new collections for every season.

The Role

The role requires the ability to multi-task. You should ideally be an experienced Assistant Buyer. You will need to be driven, have experience working in a fast paced environment and be able to take ownership for brand relations & range development & sales growth.

What You'll Take On
To support the continued growth of Label Home - 3rd Party Brands Dept the Assistant Buyer role includes responsibility for the following product areas (experience dependant):-

Kitchen / Hard Goods & Lighting Dept

• Responsibilities will include onboarding of key 3rd party brands in all categories ensuring the brand offers authenticity, credibility, design direction & or expansion of customer type.

• Working with brands through the administrative PIF process ensures product information, SEO & imagery is at its best.

• Work to ensure brands products are represented correctly online, information, imagery and customer navigation on site is best in class.

• We are looking to recruit an Assistant Buyer who is passionate and hardworking and who will play a pivotal part in our continued growth and development.

Your Team
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Assistant Buyer to join the team Home Brands & License at Next. This team is full of industry experts who live and breathe all things Homeware. The job would be based in our Enderby office, Leicester.

What You'll Bring

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are necessary for effective collaboration. An enthusiastic attitude and a team-player mindset are valued attributes in this role. And we would ideally like to bring in an Assistant Buyer with expert knowledge in this industry!

Sponsorship

Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements. For further information please see: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

We encourage early applications for our roles, as our recruitment process begins as soon as the role is advertised. If we successfully fill the position, this advert may close earlier than planned.

At NEXT, we believe the best work happens when there are no barriers to collaboration. That’s why we are a Google-powered workspace. From your very first day, you’ll be using the full Google Workspace suite; Docs, Drive, and Meet, to stay connected and move fast.

If your previous experience is rooted in other software suites, don’t worry! We’ll point you to a digital Google toolkit the moment you join, packed with handy guides and insider tips to help you transition smoothly and hit the ground running.

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