Buying Assistant Cosmetics- FTC 12 months

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit…a day includes

Role Purpose:

The buying assistant role is critical in supporting the effective running of the category to deliver the commercial plan. Working within the commercial trading team to coordinate promotions and ensuring the accurate and effective administration of our products, to enable the brand to provide a breadth of range inclusive to all our customers, at a price they love. This role reports to Senior Buyer for Superdrug Stores Plc.

A typical day in this role includes:

Interacting with a variety of stakeholders: Supply Chain, Marketing, Merchandising, OB Design and Technical, Finance Stakeholders from outside the BU: Suppliers

Responsible for supporting the effective day to day running of the department category

Ensuring all new lines are set up accurately and efficiently

Accurately implement costs and retail price amendments within agreed timescales, reconciling all changes to ensure consistency

Supporting the business to effectively deliver the end to end promotional process including POS sign off and promotional loading

Providing accurate reporting for weekly trade and on request

Working in collaboration with the store operations team to handle store product queries

Providing accurate and timely invoicing and tracking of ‘other income’

Providing exceptional service to customers both internal and external, working to proactively resolve queries and escalating where necessary

Helping the buyers with any ad hoc tasks and department queries

This job is a good fit for you if:

You’re resilient and would thrive in a fast-paced, everchanging environment

You know you add value through your ability to build great collaborative relationships

You understand the importance of your role in the business and take pride in your attention to detail

You’re ambitious and eager to learn the first step in the buying journey

You are motivated by delivering results and can easily work to deadlines

You get satisfaction though seeing the products for the category you support out on store shelves for our customers to buy

Your adaptable approach means you can easily pick up a new way of working or process

Your curious and can challenge where you see an opportunity for us to do better

What you’ll need:

Confidence in office 365 products, specifically excel

Excellent organizational and time management skills

Experience working within retail would be idea

Here's what's in it for you:

33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)

2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend

30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online

Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station

Company pension matching and bonus

We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK

We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!

Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes

Come and be part of something special.

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

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