Sobre esta vaga de Assistant Buyer na Farfetch
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WHAT YOU'LL DO
Assist the Buyer in developing the department strategy, identifying key opportunities and tactical plans to deliver on growth targets.
Proactively research and seek out new designers, proposing brand suggestions to the Buyers, helping Browns to assert itself as an incubator for emerging designers with a real point of difference.
Maintain strong relationships and continuous contact with suppliers, negotiating with confidence to ensure a positive stock and trading position.
Work collaboratively with the wider business, inclusive of Merchandising, Brand Engagement and Retail, in order to contribute to the business's commercial performance.
Analyse sales performance and monitor sell-throughs, proposing and executing trading actions in order to improve sales performance and reduce risk to the business.
Manage the reorder process, confidently analysing stock cover to maximise trading opportunities in-season.
Be responsible for all department scheduling, liaising with vendors and the wider team to ensure efficiency and cost reduction.
Manage the Order Tracker during market (chasing selections, typing up orders, flagging deadlines, communicating with brands and checking re-caps).
Maintain Vendor Terms document.
Monitor the website on a regular basis, flagging discrepancies and maintaining internal attribution via Buy Report.
Generate Vendor Packs for all buying meetings, and share weekly ST reports with brands.
Support the merchandising team on management of range plans, ensuring data integrity is of the highest level and all opportunities are captured.
Support the Buyer in delivering impactful seasonal trend presentation via buy report attribution.
Support the Admin function when escalations are made.
WHO YOU ARE
You will be passionate about product and proactive in developing product and industry trends.
You will demonstrate creativity in your curiosity to discover new brands and bring new ideas to your team to support innovation and growth within your category.
You will have a commercial mindset, with the ability to both recognise opportunities and risks, to support trade decisions.
You’ll have a strong understanding of the luxury fashion business model, with proven experience in managing reorders effectively.
You will have a structured approach to work, with the ability to confidentially plan and prioritise workload to support and protect the wider business.
You will be Excel proficient, confident in navigating through data, to interpret and analyse a multitude of different reports and protect data integrity.
You embody all of our values including Be Human; showing kindness and respect towards yourself and others, problem solving with empathy and see mistakes as learning opportunities.