This exciting new role as a Buyers Admin Assistant on the Footwear department within the Outdoors Buying team involves providing crucial administrative support to the team and serves as a key link between buying, merchandising, retail, and online sales channels. If you are passionate about the outdoors, this role could be a perfect fit for you! 

What You'll Be Doing

Planning:

• Assisting with the delivery of analysis and preparation of future strategies
• Providing administrative support for the buying team across all relevant systems
• Ensuring accurate data entry within the relevant critical path
• Seasonal preparation of photographic range catalogues
• Gaining an understanding of the top-line company strategy and how it affects my department

Delivering:

• Developing an understanding of the outdoor market, suppliers and competitors
• Maintaining supplier database, workbooks, price lists etc.
• Managing buying team branded samples – ordering, recording, returns.
• Ensuring sample availability for marketing, on-line, photography etc.
• Developing and maintaining an excellent relationship with Suppliers
• Gaining and maintaining an understanding of the systems and processes utilised within JD Outdoors
• Support buyers / liaise with product development teams as necessary
• Support on-line teams as necessary (branded assets, product data, copy)

Trading:

• Supporting trading meetings as appropriate – sales samples, new lines
• Tracking competitor activity and document ranging, pricing, promotion etc.

Teamwork:

• Share best practice within my team
• Give and receive regular feedback
• ‘Can do’ attitude
• Learn from our mistakes and help it shape our future plans
• We strive for a ‘right first time’ approach in all we do
• We are all responsible for the culture of our office – if we don’t like something, we change it.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge:

• Passion for Outdoor activities and product would be advantageous;
• Previous Retail experience within an established Outdoor Retailer would be advantageous however not essential.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Ability to prioritise workload and tasks.
• Ability to make working relationships both internally and externally.
• Flexible working approach during peak periods of the year.

The Company:

At GO Outdoors our purpose is strong and clear; “to inspire and equip everyone for life outdoors”. That’s because we passionately believe in the positive benefits of the outdoors, whether that be the daily dog walk or hiking Ben Nevis, horse riding or cold water therapy, we provide the best equipment for all outdoor activities, always at the best price guaranteed!

Our values aren’t just posters on the wall, we live them every day; ‘One Team ‘we are stronger together’, ‘Responsibility ‘we take ownership’, ‘Passion ‘we believe in what we do’ and ‘Integrity ‘we do the right thing’. Clear values which help us to fulfil our mission to be ‘the nations favourite outdoor retailer’.

If you share our passion and want to make a difference join our team to be a part of something ‘unbeatable’!

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Group the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications