Job Description

The Role

• We have an exciting opportunity to join our Purchasing and Supply Team, supporting our Total Platform Partners (Victoria’s Secret, Joules, JoJo Maman Bébé, Reiss and FatFace), our Wholly Owned Brand, Love & Roses, and our licensed brand, Bath & Body Works.
• You’ll take ownership of our retail non-stock (GNFR) operation, managing more than 400 SKUs and working closely with Next, partner brands and suppliers to ensure effective stock planning and availability. Using your analytical skills and commercial awareness, you’ll turn data into actionable insights, identify supply risks and drive operational improvements.
• This is a varied role offering the opportunity to build strong relationships, support the onboarding of new partners and improve ways of working. You’ll also have the chance to visit our non-stock warehouse in Bristol and stores to gain a deeper understanding of our retail operations.

What You Will Take On

• Supply Planning & Analysis: Create and maintain supply plans, analyse forecasts against actuals, identify trends and escalate potential risks.
• Stock & Inventory Management: Manage stock levels across 400+ SKUs, working with suppliers, brands, the warehouse and Finance to address excess stock, slow-moving lines and backorders.
• Supplier Management: Build effective supplier relationships, support reviews and meetings, contribute to tenders and quotations, and manage supply and delivery planning.
• Gift Card Management: Oversee store replenishment, monitor stock against forecasts and prepare allocations and purchase forecasts.
• Environmental Reporting: Provide packaging data and manage Valpak and Repack submissions.
• Stakeholder Communication: Work with Buyers, suppliers, partner brands and internal teams, organising meetings and visiting stores and warehouses when required.
• Reporting & Insight: Produce weekly dashboards, management information and dispatch reports, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Query & Finance Management: Investigate queries through to resolution, support invoice compliance and review off-book stock figures to meet month-end deadlines.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and support the onboarding of future Total Platform Partners.

What You Will Bring

• Commercial Awareness: An understanding of how stock management, supply planning and supplier performance support business success.
• Analytical Skills: Confidence working with large volumes of data, identifying trends and turning insights into action.
• Logical Thinking: A proactive, solutions-focused approach to resolving problems and managing priorities.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to build relationships across teams and with external partners.
• A Can-Do Attitude: An organised, adaptable approach, with the confidence to take ownership and see tasks through to completion.
• Attention to Detail: A commitment to accurate data, effective reporting and well-managed processes.

Desirable:

• Retail or purchasing and supply experience.
• Experience working with suppliers, third parties or external partners.
• Experience creating dashboards and using AI tools.
• An understanding of supply chains, forecasting and stock management.

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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!