Assistant Buyer Nutmeg - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Nutmeg, which is part of the Morrison’s group, is a family lifestyle brand that launched in 2013 and is now sold in all of our Morrisons stores and online. Nutmeg’s aim is to offer our customers great value products to love, live and feel good in. All of our products are affordable, thoughtful, great quality and are designed to work better for people’s lives.
We’re looking for an Assistant Buyer to join the team for Nutmeg based from our head office in Coalville (Leicestershire) to support the buying team by assisting in developing, sourcing and buying a specific range of products that meets all company requested requirements whilst ensuring the smooth day to day running of the department.
You’ll assist in planning, sourcing and delivering a commercial and competitively priced product range. Developing effective working relationships with both suppliers and internal colleagues.
What will I do as an Assistant Buyer at Nutmeg?
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Develop positive working relationships with suppliers.
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Build effective relationships with the marketing department, visual merchandising and PR teams to assist in developing strong and consistent marketing messages, visual merchandising strategies and brand image for the department whilst keeping the Buyer informed.
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Continually communicate with suppliers and internal departments about the status of orders, queries and issues to help to ensure the product critical path is kept up to date and accurate.
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Demonstrate Commercial Awareness – Ensure an awareness of the customer profile, current trends and competitors, whilst continually developing knowledge of all aspects of the supplier base.
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Ensure a customer focused knowledge of the varying market and trends by regular competitive and own store visits to help in assisting the Buyer to select and deliver a product range that is balanced and reflects customer requirements in terms of pricing and fashionability. Offer your own proactive thoughts and ideas to the Buyer. Produce Benchmarking
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Sample management – take ownership, ensuring all samples are kept tidy and correctly labelled. Correct samples are available for fit sessions, best sellers and all other meetings as required. All approval samples from initial sample to production sample are received to correct specifications
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Responsible for all relevant administrative duties for the department, alongside preparing and managing any reports as requested by the department for meetings.
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Accurately create the orders, utilising internal systems within required time frames
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Review weekly sales performance and identify any opportunities and highlight any issues.
About you
So you can hit the ground running in this role and be the best you can be, we’re looking for someone who can demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:
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Fashion, design, business qualification.
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A passion for product and an eye for detail.
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Clear understanding of how to serve customer needs and requirements.
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Product Knowledge – have a clear and commercial understanding of garments and demonstrate a passion for product quality and design.
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Retail market knowledge – have a good understanding of all aspects of the buying, design, merchandising and quality processes.
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Creatively looking to develop new products as well as develop new markets and opportunities, showing a great eye for detail.
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Takes responsibility for own learning, keeping skills and knowledge up to date and sharing knowledge with others through mentoring.
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Ability to influence and relationship build
If you are interested in this opportunity then please share your CV with Ciara.glover@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
About us
Nutmeg has been trading for 11 years and has grown from a Children’s clothing retailer to doing Womenswear and most recently Menswear. The Nutmeg team focuses on listening to our customers to put the best ranges in stores based on trends, seasonality, store demographic and event calendars, and the merchandising team plays a key role in all of these decision making processes. You will work on a team of 8 people including Merchandising, Buying and Design to develop and land several ranges a season. The environment is fast paced with a focus on getting results quickly that inspires our customers to keep on coming back to us.
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;
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15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member
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Generous holiday entitlement
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4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
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Company pension contributions
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Perks with over 850 retailers
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Free parking onsite
Reward & Benefits
We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.
Plan your journey
Head Office, United Kingdom, LE67 3JN
Learning and development is at the heart of our business
As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.
It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.
Our DE&I workstreams
We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.
These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.
Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.
As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.
Our Process
We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.
Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
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Find an opportunity that's right for you
Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.
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Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)
After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.
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Let's find out more
For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!
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Interview
Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).
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Final Stage
With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.
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Decision
Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome. If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail.
Ways of Working
Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate.
Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs
Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together
Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us
Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons
Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them
Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement
Life at Morrisons offers more than you imagine.
We’re a Yorkshire based food manufacturer and retailer, and our story began with a simple market stall in Bradford all the way back in 1899. Today, we’re still just as committed to delivering on our promise of 'freshness from farm to fork' for every customer. It’s why we’ve grown to become one of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And, with 90,000 colleagues, nearly 500 stores, and 11 million customers every week, there are now more reasons to join us than you can imagine.
Discover Head Office at Morrisons
Our stores aren’t the only place where the magic happens. You’ll find a proper buzz at Head Office in Bradford, too. This is where support for store colleagues begins, from those big board decisions on our business processes, right down to thinking up new ideas to help support our colleagues.
But what we love most about Head Office is that there are more functions than you probably imagine - from trading to marketing, finance to tech, and HR to property. And we all work together to make sure our stores and manufacturing & logistics sites have everything they need to succeed.
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