Assistant Buyer

Altrincham WA14 5GZ

37.5 hours per week

Competitive Salary

Who are Cotton Traders

Cotton Traders is a British clothing retailer established in 1987 by England rugby captain and legends Fran Cotton and Steve Smith. Supported by a growing online and offline (catalogue) presence we have 80 stores nationwide in England Scotland and Wales and employee 800 people across the country. We have an ambitious plan to grow the business across all touch points and we can only do this with the best people around us.

Our vision and our values are what make us unique and they are deeply ingrained in everything we do here at Cotton Traders. Our people are part of the fabric that makes us what we are and when youre as passionate about your people as we are job satisfaction and career progression come hand in hand.

Whats in the role and what are we looking for

We are recruiting for an Assistant Buyer to join our Menswear team within our Buying department. The successful candidate will work closely to support the Buyer and wider team to ensure that sales stock and margin targets are achieved. You will have bundles of passion and energy to successfully drive and contribute to our ranges.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Build a relationship with suppliers as well as Buying Merchandising and Quality Control teams.
• Engage with the Creative and Ecommerce team to ensure productive
• Assist the Buyer to adapt styles relevant to your
• Lead critical path meetings within the team including presenting to the Buyer and Buying Manager. Being proactive by highlighting any potential issues.
• Assist the Buyer with product development and price
• Develop a range with the Buyer to attract our target customer ensuring the best price and quality.
• Analysis of sales and performance for direct and retail to enable trade reactions to be implemented where required.
• All day-to-day administration required to assist the Buyer and ensure the efficient buying of product.
• Being commercially aware of our competitors and their seasonal product and price changes.
• Highly organised and keep on top of key diary dates coming up to ensure deadlines are met.

The Successful Candidate will:

• Have 1 2 years experience at Assistant Buyer
• Experience of Menswear not
• Natural ability to identify future fashion trends and a real passion for
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the current

Whats on offer

We are protective and proud in equal measure of our culture and suggest you take a look at our values on our web-site to gain a better understanding of life at CT. Once part of the team youll be rewarded with amongst other things:-

• Flexible working culture adopting a hybrid working approach
• 25 days holiday rising to 30 days plus bank holidays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 50% staff discount
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Health cash plan
• Long service awards

Next steps

If you are interested in the excellent opportunity on offer we would love to hear more from you! Please send your CV through to the HR team