Assistant Buyer - Billericay, United Kingdom - DCK Group

DCK Group

Verified Company

Billericay, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About us**DCK is one of the world's leading fashion jewellery companies, working with many well-known retailers and high street fashion brands such as River Island, M&S, Tesco, Matalan to name a few. We have over 25 years' experience in fashion jewellery. We are experts in designing, developing and trading in accessories, working with a wide range of partners and selling directly to consumers.

We currently have exciting opportunities for Assistant Buyers to join our Product team.

As Assistant Buyer in the Product Stream your role will be to manage the Product life cycle from development through to readiness for selection.

You will negotiate all product including packaging in line with margin targets and the critical path, inputting product details into the system accurately ready for the Partner team to select.

This role is working 4 days in our Billericay, Essex Office.

Product Development

Maintain Product boards & Product library images through to approval
Manage approval meetings, ensuring packaging is fit for purpose, communicating any issues or changes to packaging team to prevent delays to the critical path.
Brief packaging team on new packaging requirements in line with critical path
Contribute to product development, working with design to interpret and adapt market trends that meet the needs of your customer
Understand appropriate sourcing and supplier routes for your product, regularly reviewing mixes and supplier capabilities
Work alongside QC and Sourcing offices throughout the development process, ensuring all products are to standards, highlighting risks to the Buyer
Build supplier relations obtaining cost prices within critical path timings
Manage costings (including open costings) and build an understanding of materials and manufacturing techniques.
Negotiate best possible cost price; maximizing profit whilst maintaining quality and highlight any risk to margin to your Buyer
Offer solutions to cost engineer product where margin does not align to brands KPI, with guidance from the Buyer
Working alongside product techs to understand impact of test costs on product margin (where relevant)
Action approval comments with supplier where product changes affect price or margin & renegotiate if necessary
Manage the input of product and packaging (for originating brand) into WFX ensuring all details are accurate for the Partner team to select from and build online descriptions for the host.
Ensure clear & concise product notes are entered into the system for supplier enquiries
Present your subrange in sign off meeting with Directors (where applicable)
Regularly review competitors, ensuring products and packaging remain ahead of the competition
Regularly visit stores to review delivery of product ranges, feeding back to the team your findings, driving actions, opportunities and managing risk
Regularly review supplier performance, feeding back to Buyer Contribute & present an area of your Brand's strategy with the support of your Buyer: delivering new strategy ideas in a structured and measured way

Skills, experience, and qualifications:

Experience working in a Assistant Buyer or Senior Buyer's Assistant role for 1 year +
Competent numerical skills for negotiation and trading.
Fully understand the impact of all range decision on margin % and value for the business.
Good working ability with relevant IT systems (Microsoft Office).
Strong and developed understanding of the retail market, fashion trends and brand positioning, both UK and internationally.
Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and present, competently and clearly, a good assertive influencer. Strong organisational and task management skills, with the ability to manage own workload and oversee the work of others.

Why choose DCK

Opportunity to work for a leading independent global fashion business
Be part of a welcoming, friendly business that promotes learning and developing from day one
Flexible working hours, to help you develop a healthy worklife balance
Early finish every Friday
Heavily staff discounted fashion and jewellery allowance
25 days holiday (+bank holidays and the ability to buy 5 more days)
Free Parking
Free refreshments and fruit with lunch on us once a week
Community Group Social Events
Plus, many more additional benefits