Buying Assistant - Leeds, United Kingdom - Asda

Asda

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Buying Assistant - Food

Location:
Asda House

Employment Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary:

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category:
Buying

Closing Date: 25 June 2024

Are you interested in kickstarting a career in Buying?

Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast moving and ever changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter. From daily sales and profit reports, to admin support and marketing getting everything accurate is hugely important. And doing it as efficiently as possible will bring savings to our customers as well as to our business

"Everything about Asda"
We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month.

We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

"Everything you'll love "
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Hybrid and flexible working - everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point.
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Discretionary bonus

Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts

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Company matched pension

Looking forward to the future

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25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays

Making sure you take time for your self and switch off

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13 paydays a year - who doesn't love an extra payday?
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Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions

Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us

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Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year
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Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
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Free city centre parking - you can also use it outside working hours

Plus much more

_ "That's more like it"_

"Find your role"
You will support the Buyer in all areas, including sales tracking and analysis.

It's important that you keep the admin up to date, including line listing, cost and retail changes and liaise with suppliers to ensure that they keep to deadlines and tasks.

You will Impute into decisions on ranges and promotions and answer and resolve store/supplier queries.

Other important tasks include raising and reconciling of internal and external invoices to the category and assisting the Buyer with competitor research and the day to day trading of your category.

You will also play a key role in supporting the buying team through the changes that we are making to our systems and processes, as part our of Future transformation programme.

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Let's find out about you"

Excellent excel & analytical skills with high attention to detail
Tenacious attitude and the ability to work well in a team
An interest in being a Buyer in the future

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_Find your everything at Asda" - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach._

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Work Where it Works
Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you'll be the most effective.

It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;
Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched
10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves