Assistant Buyer - F&F Ladies

About the role

As the Assistant Buyer, you'll work alongside your Buying Manager and will play a key role in developing trend-led, customer-focused ranges that deliver both style and commercial success. This is a fantastic opportunity to take on greater responsibility, strengthen your commercial influence and grow your career in a fast-moving fashion environment.

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
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You will be responsible for

Customer & Product

• Using customer, trend and competitor insight to contribute to recommendations on product and packaging development.
• Demonstrating the ability to develop and deliver consistently successful ranges for the Ladieswear category with along side your Buying Manager.
• Negotiating creatively to maximise margin, cost price, MOQ or fabric efficiencies while maintaining flexibility, quality and strong supplier partnerships.
• Broadening network engagement, including with costing engineers and technical teams.
• Applying knowledge of manufacturing and production processes to improve cost, lead time and consistency.
• Taking ownership of projects across wider Ladieswear and engaging stakeholders to deliver combined goals.

Trade & Planning

• Understanding and articulating trade performance confidently, making informed decisions alongside on your Buying Manager.
• Contributing to and leading elements of the end‑to‑end department strategy.
• Understanding top‑line trade as well as the detailed commercial performance of your category.
• Using comprehensive competitor and market knowledge to inform recommendations across Ladieswear.
• Knowing how to plan strategically for both core and seasonal buying cycles, ensuring resilience through forecasting and scenario planning.
• Successfully supporting new supplier set‑up, onboarding and relationship building.
• Working cross‑functionally with Supply Chain, TBS, Studio, QA and Merchandising to ensure product is delivered on time in all channels.

Systems & Administration

• Owning product set‑up with high accuracy.
• Managing artwork and POS briefs through to completion.
• Ensuring compliance with Tesco policies, storage and handover protocols, and completing all required training.

You will need

• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Effective stakeholder and supplier management
• buying and range management capability
• Strong trade planning and interpretation of commercial performance
• Confident data analysis skills
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• Robust retail maths knowledge
• Clear and impactful communication and presentation skills

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here  for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.