Mothercare Careers

We currently have some exciting Buying Assistant opportunities in our Mothercare UK Product team based in our Watford head office, reporting to the Home & Travel and Clothing department Buyers.

This purpose of this role is to assist the buying team strategy by providing administrative support and contributing to the buying process.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Manage the administrative effort of UK buying including; generating style numbers, sending and monitoring style agreement forms/Buyers worksheets, raising SKU's and contracts accurately, and amending where necessary
• Input accurate information to the contracting systems and supporting documents, in order to maintain accurate style and financial information
• Responsible for sample management and storage
• Collect and collate all information relevant to UK critical path management on a weekly basis
• Provide administrative support as required, including booking meeting rooms, providing hospitality duties, opening and distributing post and parcels, and ensuring that department and meeting rooms are maintained tidily
• Demonstrate an understanding for the UK Mother & Baby market by regularly visiting stores, competitive shopping, reviewing customer insight information, etc
• Demonstrate an understanding of the UK selling channels via regular store visiting and awareness of issues and opportunities within eCommerce

About You:

• Looking for Buying Graduates or those with some Buying experience
• Product affinity
• Positive can-do attitude and able to easily adapt
• Can work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining standards
• Team worker
• Presentation skills