Job Description
Buyers Admin Assistant
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We are Sosandar. Based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, we’re one of the UK’s fastest growing online fashion brands for chic and stylish women; worn by celebs and influencers galore. We have an amazing opportunity for someone equally as amazing to join our growing team as a Buyers Admin Assistant.
The Buyers Admin Assistant job role is to provide full and highly administrative support to the fashion Buying/Design team.
This is what you’ll do:
- Create and maintain the critical path/monthly boards, ensuring the smooth running of the whole fashion buying cycle.
- Place purchase orders and completing order amendments including; delivery delays, quantity adjustments and price amendments in system.
- Prepare the fit rails in advance of fit session.
- Attend fit sessions & updating critical path accordingly.
- Chase outstanding samples on a weekly basis, at all stages of development and updating the buying team on status.
- Complete regular competitive shops and report back to wider team to provide a good knowledge and understanding of competitors.
- Maintain the sample library, preparing samples for meetings.
- Support sample handling for cross functional teams; marketing, press and online.
- Create fashion trend boards for buying meetings.
- Take minutes in buyer meetings and circulate.
Who we’re looking for:
- Enthusiastic, highly organised team player, with strong communication skills.
- Someone with great attention to detail and a keen eye for fashion.
- A willingness to support the Buying Design team in sample management and all admin related tasks.
- A desire to progress within the fashion Buying industry.
What's in it for you?
- 25 days paid holiday pro-rata, plus bank holidays, plus your birthday off!
- Holiday buy scheme
- Hybrid working
- 40% employee discount
- 4% employer pension via salary sacrifice
- Employee Assistance Programme (private GP consultations, prescriptions, physiotherapy, counselling, shopping discounts) for you, your partner and kids
- Life Assurance 4x your salary
Weekly hours: 35 per week
As an equal opportunities’ employer, we celebrate our differences and know that as a team we thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment. Sosandar, therefore, very much welcomes applications from all individuals.
Think you tick all the boxes? Great, we want to hear from you! Please send us your CV and a covering letter to careers@sosandar.com telling us why Sosandar and you are the perfect fit.