Description
Working as part of NEXT's fastest growing Brand, you'll take a lead on brand management, range selection, and trading activity.
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.
Key responsibilities include:
- Account management and product selection
- Trading the ranges in season to maximise sales opportunities
- Managing a team of Assistant Buyers
- Suggesting new brands to bring to the mix
- Maintaining product systems and ensuring critical dates and deadlines are met
- Building productive and strong relationships with the brands and supply base
You'll need to be commercially aware, thrive under pressure, and be confident juggling multiple priorities.
Benefits include:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Profit-related bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Sharesave scheme
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Group income protection
- Wagestream
- Salary finance
- 25% staff discount on most NEXT products
- Direct to work
- VIP sale
- Access to NEXT staff shops
- Octopus energy
- Free parking
- Travel2NEXT
- On site dining facilities
- National and local discounts on goods and services
- Wellhub
- Simply health
- Aviva Digicare Workplace+
- Onsite GP
- Onsite Physio
- A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
- Free eye testing