# Assistant Buyer - Brands - Fixed Term Contract

**Company**: NEXT
**Location**: Leicester
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: competitive
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

Working across a very successful and growing department, you'll support brand management, range selection, and trading activity across Brands. It's a varied, fast-moving role and an exciting team to be a part of!

You'll be joining the Brands buying team on a maternity cover basis, offering them key support for the buying, developing, and reviewing of the brand mix and ranges in the department. You'll have key responsibilities at every stage of the process, from account management and product selection to trading the ranges in season to maximise sales opportunities – considering everything from market shifts to new and emerging fashion trends.

You'll also have the opportunity to suggest new brands to bring to the mix and put these forward to launch on the NEXT website. You'll be responsible for accurately maintaining product systems and ensuring critical dates and deadlines are met.

**Responsibilities**

- Support brand management, range selection, and trading activity across Brands

- Assist in buying, developing, and reviewing brand mix and ranges

- Manage a Trainee Buyer to ensure smooth running of the division

- Build productive relationships with brands and supply base

- Suggest new brands to bring to the mix

**Requirements**

- Established in current role, confident to take on new challenge

- Commercially aware, thrive under pressure, juggle multiple priorities

- Genuine interest in lingerie, keen eye for product

- Experience with brands, or strong product-focused candidate from other areas

- Great communicator, team player

- Experience of managing or mentoring ideal

**Benefits**

- 25% off most NEXT, MADE, Lipsy, Gap, and Victoria's Secret products

- Company performance-based bonus

- Sharesave scheme

- On-site Nursery available

- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty

- Early VIP access to sale stock

- Access to fantastic discounts at Staff Shops

- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices

- Access to digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services

- Free on-site parking

- Financial Wellbeing

- Apprenticeship

- Direct to Work

- Support Networks

- Wellhub

## Skills

### Required
- brand management
- range selection
- trading
- product selection
- account management
- communication
- teamwork

### Nice to have
- experience with brands
- managing or mentoring
- lingerie industry knowledge

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