Office is looking for a ladies' Buying Admin Assistant to join the team in London.

Working hand in hand with the Assistant Buyer, the BAA provides all-around administrative support for the ladies' buying team, including managing the department's critical path to a high level of accuracy, following orders through from placement to delivery and ensuring that all samples are received and that deliveries run on time.

What you will be doing:

• Build excellent working relationships with the Buying and Merchandising team in your department as well as with our external suppliers within the UK and abroad.
• Inputting and amending orders accurately onto the system and the critical path
• Management of barcode labels, liaising with the factories
• Monitoring critical path and chasing samples and deliveries, liaising with logistics
• Dealing with warehouse issues and monitoring expected deliveries
• Highlights delays and issues arising with orders, both internally and externally
• Processing samples received (fits, development, shoots/meetings)
• Participating in fit meetings, writing up fit reports, communicating with suppliers and updating the critical path
• Labelling, logging, organising and filing samples, including press and bought • Gathers all relevant reports and information requested by buyer and merchandiser and distributes to the team
• Manages and updates range images
• Collating and preparing meeting samples, such as for weekly trade meetings and sign-offs
• Ongoing familiarity with the competition’s product range
• Receiving and sending post
• Dealing with all supplier queries
• Proactively dealing with department queries both internally and externally
• Assisting the design and wholesale team in chasing development samples

Profile:

• A love for shoes and fashion that identifies with the Brand
• PC literate
• Proficient with Excel, Word, Excel, and Outlook
• High levels of accuracy
• Confident communicator
• Team Player
• Good time management
• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced working environment

What we are offering you

A fun, fast-paced, demanding retail environment – Our staff love working for OFFICE because they are able to contribute ideas that are listened to and often implemented.

World Class Training and Development – Enjoy on the job training as well as training and development that is run by HQ.

Amazing Colleagues – Work is so much easier when you work with like-minded people. We are proud to hire passionate people who are driven to succeed.

Succession Planning – We recognise our Superstars and we aren’t afraid to offer them promotions and moves to encourage them to keep learning and developing