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Trainee Junior Buyer

Job details
Posting date: 07 January 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Competitive
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 06 February 2025
Location: Croydon, CR0 2EU
Company: inploi
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 75676250

Summary

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit…a day includes
Are you looking for an administrative support role in a busy vibrant environment? We have a fantastic opportunity to be a crucial member of our team in Superdrug Head Office. Working as part of the Commercial team, you will support the Buyer and Senior Buyer, in ensuring our cross functional category achieves its objectives. You will be working towards taking on category responsibility for Lipcare which will include trade reporting, event forecasting, range selection and review planning and working closely with marketing teams and Lip Account Managers.

You will be learning they key elements of the Junior Buyer role with the support of the team. You will get exposure to the workings of a thriving head office and will be a crucial part of our commercial team, ensuring all administrative tasks are carried out to a high standard. This role will give you the opportunity to develop the following skills:
Experience within a successful buying team and exposure to Junior Buyer skills and responsibilities
Increased confidence communicating with stakeholders at all levels
Improved knowledge of the workings of a busy commercial buying department
A professional approach and the ability to stay calm under pressure

Your day-to-day role and responsibilities will include :
Managing the promotional process for your areas of responsibility, including loadups and forecasting
Managing the admin promotional process for Facial Skin, & Lip, requesting promotional proposal forms, creating bidding sheets, and loading promotions on to our systems in line with company timescales
Managing the promotional process for your areas of responsibility, including loadups and forecasting
Completing all POS Sign off including small POS in POS Manager and large POS with the Marketing Team within company timescales.
Resolving all promotional queries with Buying / Marketing / Suppliers and submitting change forms if required Managing set up and maintenance of products for Facial Skin, & Lip
Completing Admin including Hierarching change forms, and Cost and Retail request forms for Facial Skin and Lip
Being the main admin support, completing Ad Hoc request as needed
Accurately raising debit and credit note invoices for Facial Skin and Lip
Attending Lip supplier meetings to establish relationships with supplier base
Liaise with stake holders and provide effective and accurate administration of product information, promotion lines, suppliers and stock
Produce category information for circulation to our stores
Supplier and category management of lip
Performance Reporting
Leading the skin events
Liaising with supply chain, finance, marketing, operations and online where necessary


What you’ll need to succeed

Great communication skills across different levels
Enthusiastic, committed and show passion for the company and customer
Are highly organised with an excellent attention to detail
Have a good level of IT knowledge to include Excel and Word
Able to review and analyse data
Have a strong work ethic and flexible approach
Have the ability to work within a close team and to deadlines and stay calm under pressure
Here's what's in it for you - UK

Here's what's in it for you

  • 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
  • 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
  • 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
  • Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
  • Company pension matching and bonus
  • We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
  • Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
  • We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
  • Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes

Come and be part of something special.

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

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