Key skills
Ruby on RailsRubyRailsCommunicationTime Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Efficient and accurate order and invoice management, including maintenance of supplier base details and fabric orders
- Effective sample management, including labelling, working with suppliers, maintaining the development tracker and ensuring the correct samples are available to support meetings
- Supporting fit meetings with relevant paperwork and rails
- Co-ordinating labelling and ticketing to a high standard
- Monitor and review Critical Path, ensuring dates and deliveries on track and highlighting risks to the Assistant Buyer/Buyer
- Support weekly trading reviews, updating and providing information to the Buying team as needed
- A working knowledge of competitors, key market trends, customers and channels; produce comp shops with recommendations to positively impact performance
- Through a working knowledge of sustainability practises and ethical trading, ensure that work duties are managed responsibly so as not to have any detrimental impact throughout the supply chain
- Work cross functionally with Core Merchandising team for effective ways of working and internal teams (Ecommerce, Wholesale, Visual Merchandising) to provide full and correct collections for meetings
Requirements
- Previous experience in Retail or as BAA is desirable, but not essential; a track record that demonstrates good work ethic is a must
- Ability to learn quickly and apply that learning
- Good verbal and numerical reasoning skills
- Intermediate MS Office skills
- Computer literate, able to learn new systems quickly
- Highly organised and pro-active, good time management skills
- Collaborative, with strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Good commercial and market awareness
- Disciplined and conscientious, results oriented
- Resilient and adaptable with the ability to multitask
- Curious, continuous learning mindset
- Takes initiative
- A keen interest in Product and the River Island brand is a must
Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails
Benefits
- Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!
- Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through the Retail Trust.
- A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill your needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.
- Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!
- Flexible working, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.
- Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.
- Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.
- 23 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!