Assistant Buyer (OEM)

Assistant Buyer (OEM)

Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

This role will be positioned within the commercial team, in appliances where you will be centred in a fast-paced team. Our ambition in appliances is to create more unique reasons for customers to shop with Currys and this new role is central to that ambition.

The Assistant Buyer is responsible for supporting the Senior buyer to create and develop a new OEM brand to launch across the appliances categories. They will brief and create a new range of OEM Small Kitchen appliances which will enhance both our unique point of difference in the market & enhanced our commercial margin.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Senior Buyer on the OEM project to create a new OEM Brand. Tracking and chasing up actions from project board meetings
• Create and develop a new OEM brand – working closely with brand teams and customer insight teams – the Assistant Buyer may be required to write briefs to support the customer insight team
• Source a new range of OEM appliances starting with small kitchen appliances, ensuring all products are set up accurately
• Responsible for briefing all new OEM collateral is best in class including instore tickets, online product pages, videos etc
• Responsible for maintaining the OEM promotional plans and sharing and agreeing promotional plans with the SKA team, uploading promotional plans to sigma to ensure promotions go live on time
• Review sales performance daily, weekly, monthly and suggest & agree actions to improve performance
• Working with the merchandising team to ensure forecasts are reviewed to maintain optimum levels of stock health & availability
• Collaborating with the Go to Market and categories teams, to brief all marketing briefs for the OEM products
• Review pricing vs market to ensure our OEM range is competitive vs market

You will need:

• Experience working as an Assistant Buyer withing FMCG/Fashion or Hard Goods fast paced retailer
• Good numerical and analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations/actions plans to drive sales, profit and cash
• Good planning, organisational and multitasking skills
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
• Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs
• Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as MS Office workflow tools
• Experience of working to deadlines and managing critical paths
• Good presentation and speaking skills

Why join us:

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement)
• Life Assurance
• Staff discounts and offers
• Hybrid Working (with an expectation to meet in person 2-4 times per month)

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.