We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.
By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.
The Role:
Buying is the department that brings together creative inspiration & commercial planning to deliver the best ranges for our customer. Product is at the heart of everything we do, from developing the best prints for dresses, the must have coat of the season or the ‘It’ bag. Always thinking ‘customer first’ we work hard with our suppliers in the UK & across the world to deliver fashion at amazing prices & as quickly as possible. Buying is fast paced and exciting & every day is unique.
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU:
- 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
- Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
- Private pension scheme
- Virtual GP access for you and your children – it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you
- All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
- Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
- Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
- Spread the cost of your commute with interest-free season ticket loans
- Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme
- We're proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust
What you’ll be doing:
Planning
- Strategy awareness at Group and Department Level
- Awareness of Brand Vision
- Managing daily /weekly tasks in line with Ways Of Working (WOW)
- Preparation for Departmental Meetings
- Supporting the Buying team with data entry into the planning tool
Buying
- Raising purchase orders
- Working to the Critical Path to meet all deadlines
- Dealing with issues arising with orders both internally and externally
- Taking ownership of finding solutions
- Coordinating barcode process
- Maintaining purchase orders in the Critical Path in the relevant system
- Assisting the team with supplier slippage management
- Actioning any order amendments under direction from the B&M team
- Supporting commitment through the weekly team updates
Sample Management
- Processing samples received
- Labeling, logging, organising and filing samples
- Preparing samples for meetings
- Maintaining the departments range and samples
- Driving the press sample process to ensure that the department offer is fully potentialised.
- Ensuring production samples are received in time to pre shoot for online sales
- Maintaining the latest imagery of samples
- Preparing samples in readiness for3PE partner meetings
Trading
- Basic understanding of trade reports
- Basic understanding of trade decisions
- Attending Group Trade meetings
Product Awareness
- An understanding of the New Look Customer
- Basic understanding of our Customer Insight and Market Share
- Actively contributing in trend and competitor analysis, making recommendations for changes or developments
- Ongoing familiarity of the competition’s product range
- Completing and reporting back on NL store visits and competitor shops
Who you are:
- You have a strong awareness of current fashion trends and a good understanding of the high street landscape.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail and accuracy in everything you do.
- A confident communicator who builds positive relationships across teams and with suppliers.
- Passionate about product, with a genuine interest in how ranges are built and brought to market.
- Previous experience within Fashion/Retail and/or in a Buying Admin Assistant role is advantageous.
- A fashion-related qualification or degree is desirable, but not essential.
Why New Look?
We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change. We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We’re proud of our inclusive culture and our talented team members who embrace our shared purpose, behaviours and values.
We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals.
We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.
Please ensure that your CV is in simple format e.g. Microsoft Word when applying using your CV to ensure smooth application process.
Skills Required
- Strong awareness of current fashion trends and the high street landscape
- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Confident communication and ability to build positive relationships across teams and suppliers
- Passion for product and genuine interest in how ranges are built and brought to market
- Previous experience within fashion or retail
- Previous experience as a Buying Administration Assistant
- Fashion-related qualification or degree
What We Do
New Look is a UK-based feel-good fashion brand and omnichannel womenswear retailer. It makes style accessible and fun for customers, serving more than 10 million loyal customers through hundreds of UK stores and its online shop. The company operates across physical retail and digital channels, with a leading position in womenswear and a focus on accessible, trend-led clothing for women aged 18 to 44.
