Assistant Buyer Sports

Internal use only - Grade H

Were the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose helping families get more out of life powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If youre high-performing ambitious and make the most of every opportunity we want to hear from return youll enjoy heaps of flexibility great perks and benefits and the freedom to be yourself keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference youll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

The Sportstyleteamarecuratingthe freshestSports Lifestyle trendsforour customers to helpthem look and feel greatevery day.

We are currently looking to grow our brand portfolio so now is an exciting time to join our team make an impact and shapewhatsnext!

We have a really exciting opportunity for an Assistant Buyer on Sports. Youll report directly into the Buyer for the area so lots of opportunity to further develop your skills.

Day to day you will be meeting and managing brand relationships developing commercial range-plans suited to our customer producing and presenting reports at trade meetings on trends forecasts and opportunities. You will be dealing with some of our strategic brands including New Balance Converse Vans and Puma.

Key Responsibilities:

• Relationship management: both internally and externally will be important building strong relationships to maximise commercial opportunities Key relationships day to day email management with supply chain.
• Commercial awareness: Awareness of the market is key keeping track of competitor activity market trends and price positioning.
• Maintaining relationships with brands in line with our values
• Able to deputise for the Buyer in key meetings.
• Able to delegate or take lead and make decisions under pressure.
• Formulating Range Frameworks/Brand Plans alongside merchandising functions

• You will be highly organised with great communication skills.
• You know how to analyse performance and apply lessons learnt to future range building.
• You can pre-empt potential challenges that may impact team or trading and take steps to minimise them before they arise.

• You will build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Able to deputise for the Buyer in key meetings.
• Liaison with SMT and can clearly articulate category performance
• Trading actions identifying how to maximise best sellers and identifying worst sellers and minimising risk.
• Able to delegate/ take the lead where required

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment check out our Glassdoor reviews
• 250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 27 days holiday bank holidays
• LinkedIn learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly and if successful in securing this role you will be required to undertake a credit CIFAS Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken including any unspent criminal convictions.

What happens next

Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if youre successful so keep an eye on your emails! Well arrange a short call to learn more about you as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like were a good match well share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.

You can expect a one stage interview process for this position:

1st stage - A one hour face-to-face interview with the hiring team to discuss your skills and relevant experience competency questions. This is also a great opportunity to find out more about the role and to ask any questions you may have.

As an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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Diversity inclusion and equal opportunities

Werebuilding a culture of everyday inclusion and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We dont discriminate based on age disability gender reassignment marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply interview or perform a role let us know via Well be happy to support you.

Were proud to be aDisability Confident Committed Employerand have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.

Required Experience:

Junior IC