Category / Buying Assistant - Homeware

An exciting opportunity for a Category / Buying Assistant to join a fast-moving Homewares team in a role that offers excellent training and development.

The successful applicant will be responsible for preparing and analysing commercial data and market trends to support profitable sales growth of our customers and ourselves.

Responsibilities of the Category / Buying Assistant

Market / Competitor Understanding:

• Understand what the competition is selling/pricing structures/marketing for given product areas.
• Support the Category Manager to deliver a pipeline of new products for customer selection.
• Maintain required administration accurately and completely.

Product Development:

• Spot and develop new product sales opportunities.
• Create development diaries and track and push internally and externally to the factories any developments.
• Samples management required for customer meetings.

Pricing:

• Costing for new factory designs
• Cross costing current designs
• Updating current and new prices on price lists

Critical Path Management – New Ranges:

• Setting up critical paths with factories for selected products, ensuring we can meet the required shipment dates to meet launch.
• Creating and sending out internally packaging forms and photography forms
• Responsible for weekly Intake sheets being updated and sent to our customer giving overview of approvals and what is outstanding.
• Escalating and tracking any products at risk and agreeing an action plan.
• Work with the Technical team to highlight any potential issues. Track these through development to resolve.
• Communicate across various departments to ensure we are hitting key dates on critical path.
• Creating and sending out internally packaging forms and photography forms

Range Management:

• Ensuring all our live lines costing sheets is correct and up to date and corresponds with TB JDE system. Each Season adding new and removing discontinued lines ready for the following seasons negotiations.
• Updating development documents
• Customer Meetings
• Creating initial PowerPoints to send out to internally/ customers.

General:

• Liaise with Merchandising / Stock Control for on time vs delayed deliveries and updating customer information accordingly.
• Liaise with Technical on new products, new factories, and quality issues.
• General admin support where and when needed based on workflow.
• General housekeeping duties for Data/sample storage/showroom & updating Bars (our system that holds record and imagery off all current/selected and offered lines to the customer)

What Tagged Resources is looking for:

• Advanced Excel skills and ability to work with mass data.
• Ability to communicate with Customers and Suppliers on Teams calls and face-to-face meetings.
• Ability and the confidence to produce and present PowerPoint presentations internally and externally.
• Attention to detail is critical when dealing with large amounts of data.
• Understand the specification of the product in more detail to give you a greater understanding of developing the right products for the customer.
• Able to work on own initiative.
• Enjoys working as part of a wider team and likes to get stuck in.

What you'll get:

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office a week.
• 23 days holiday – rising to 25 over 2 years.
• Free car parking.

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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.

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