Wholesale Buying Assistant

Debenhams is looking for a Wholesale Buying Assistant. This hybrid role will aid you in learning all aspect of buying and selling. Working directly for Debenhams but liaising across all the brands in the Boohoo Group, the wholesale department sells the collections to our partners all around the globe. You will be responsible for coordinating with brands and partners to return orders and meet critical deadlines. Our Buying Assistant will also aid the Buyer with own brand development for lingerie, swimwear and sleepwear.

Your team

We started out as one brand with only three team members in 2006, today we are now made up of 13 amazing brands and counting, we have offices all over the world and we’ve grown to 7,000+ strong team we call our boohoo family – and we don’t plan on stopping yet. We have big ambitions, huge potential and a clear strategy to continually evolve and grow the business. It’s a seriously exciting time to join us and influence the next chapter of our success.

What you’ll be doing

WHOLESALE

• Collaboratively shape partner catalogue with an awareness of brand bestsellers and seasonal trends
• Responsible for ensuring all deadlines are met to share first insights & order confirmation sheets with partners.
• Ensure Wash care tracker and supporting documents are completed according to critical path to prepare export documents.
• Working collaboratively across the brand to delivery wholesale partner key KPI’s.
• Keeping partner trackers & wholesale critical path documents up to date.
• Understands department strategy, despatch targets and OTB plans with the support of Head of Wholesale and Account manager

OWNBUY

• Raising department orders & managing amends
• Managing critical path and OPO management to ensure department targets are achieved and deliveries on time.
• Colour & Print approvals
• Ownership of fit sessions and actioning fit comments direct to suppliers.
• Negotiating cost prices to achieve best prices and meet department BIM.
• Understanding open costings including fabric prices, consumption and fit amend implications.
• Attending supplier meetings to develop and source new development as well as reviewing OPO and any production concerns.
• Responsible for weekly OPO meetings alongside AM and MAA.
• Management of sample development tracker and chasing in development to meet deadlines.
• Understanding of the marketplace, target customer and key competitors.
• Awareness of department KPI’s and department strategy.
• Accountable for checking new in product daily to ensure all details of each product are correct online.
• Understanding of the weekly trade pack with contribution to department best and worst.
• Carries out weekly & Seasonal comp shops.

Working with us

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.

More about you

• Consistently manage your workload effectively
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment and passion for delivering great partner experiences
• Be super adaptable and find it easy to switch it up when the business needs
• Always ahead at spotting opportunities and commercial wins for the business
• Team player, able to work with multiple business functions to achieve objectives.

WHY JOIN US

We’ve set our sights on dominating the global e-commerce fashion market, and because we’re 13 brands (and counting), there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career. As marketplace side of the business evolves, it offers good scope for progression.

Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception.

• You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes
• Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
• Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
• There’s up to 40% discount off our all of our brands
• With HQs in Manchester and London and offices across the globe (some are dog friendly!), we offer a buzzing atmosphere and the boohoo family culture wherever you work