Job Description

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

JD Sports Fashion plc

Buyers Assistant
JD

Responsible to : Buyer
Department: Buying (Apparel)
Location: Hollinsbrook Way, Pilsworth, Bury, Lancs BL9 8RR
Hours: 40

The purpose of this job is to provide administration support for the JD buying team. The successful candidate will have a passion for our product with a great knowledge of current sportwear and high street fashion trends.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assist the Assistant Buyer/Buyer with the day to day running of the range and samples.
• Ensure post is collected, and samples are sent out where required in a timely manner with correct documentation attached.
• Assist the Assistant Buyer with any order amendments and post trade actions.
• Assist the Assistant Buyer with compiling weekly Competitor Shopping Reports to highlight competitor activity, missed opportunities & promotional activity, utilising websites, store visits and magazines to complete the report.
• Create and maintain all product sheets, ensuring they are completed with correct information and most up to date images.
• Complete weekly trade admin; Compile Best and Worst documents, pull relevant samples with completed product tags and ensure samples are cleared away after the meeting.
• Chase suppliers for press samples and pass to marketing.
• Monitor web lines to make sure intake images are correct and appearing on the websites in a timely manner.
• Support the Assistant Buyer with compiling the relevant information needed for sign-off presentations (i.e. Top 20, Top 50 documents).
• Take minutes in meetings and ensure they are written up, distributed and followed up in a timely manner.
• Manage samples for staff sales.
• Follow various social media channels to ensure we are aware of current and emerging trends within sportswear fashion.
• Provide sell-through information to brands on a weekly basis
• Run rankings for Top 20 and Top 50 lines from last week’s trade
• Produce trend reports by Quarterly
• Attend appointments when specified by Buyer

Core Competencies:

• Knowledge of our store base and website
• Desire to learn and a passion for our product
• Social media awareness and understanding of the relevance to category
• Proactive and forward-thinking in suggesting improvements
• Confidence in their knowledge of the market and ability to challenge and influence across all levels

Skills/Experience/Knowledge needed:

• JD retail experience is preferred
• Current sportswear fashion trend knowledge and a passion for JD product is essential.
• An awareness of celebrity trends within sportswear fashion.
• As this role is admin based, knowledge of Microsoft office software is advantageous but training will be provided for successful candidates
• Good organisational skills and basic numeracy

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you for your time

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