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Due to company growth, we have an exciting opportunity at Pavers for a Buying Admin Assistant to join our Buying Support Team at our York Head Office.
As a Buying Admin Assistant, you will support the buying team throughout the order process in terms of administration, label order forms and packaging queries.
This role will ideally suit an individual with excellent administration skills, a ‘can do’ attitude, highly organised with a keen eye for details and ability to maintain accurate data. You’ll need to have a passion for footwear and will join a likeminded team who like to have fun while they work in a collaborative team environment and deliver their best at all times.
Key Responsibilities for our Buying Admin Assistant
- Managing the sample collections in line with the critical path and assisting the Buyer with fit testing samples, checking and processing production samples
- Managing price changes to ensure all is correct within the system (reductions & increases)
- Actioning seasonal stock transfers
- Managing all barcode and label data including EAN (European Article Number) codes and to ensure smooth processing of stock into the business
- Confirming Purchase Orders (including Sage) and generating accurate label details
- Checking and approving commission and pro forma Invoices against confirmed orders
- Maintaining accurate data withing the buying planning merchandising system
- Completing ad-hoc tasks withing the buying planning merchandising system including setting up new suppliers, brands etc
About you
- Passion for the product and a career in retail
- Strong verbal and written communications skills and demonstrable administration experience
- High attention to detail and strong MS Excel skills
- Organisation skills?with the ability to prioritise
- Any experience of Purchasing/CIPS would be beneficial although not a requirement
Benefits/Package for our Buying Admin Assistant:
Salary: £24031.80 per annum plus;
- Flexible working around core hours, as agreed by your line manager
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Death in service
- Generous Staff Discount
- Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)
- Company Contribution Pension
- Access to Retail TRUST (Wellbeing and Financial Support)
- Access to the Pavers Foundation: an employee-led grant application and charitable giving scheme
- Access to Pavers Academy for learning and development opportunities
About Us
At Pavers we are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers.
Pavers is a growing, highly profitable, independent family-run business with a strong balance sheet, employing over 1,800 people across our estate of circa 200 Stores, Head Office and Distribution Centre, and we remain acquisitive.
We were voted one of the Top 10 Employers in Retail in the UK in 2020 and were recognised as a 3* Employer with ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement by Best Companies in 2023. At Pavers we truly believe the talents, passion, and dedication of our employees are the reasons for our success. As of 2023 we are working towards obtaining menopause friendly status.
In 2021 we became the first major retailer to achieve Carbon Neutral status and have proudly maintained this standard ever since. Championing sustainability is at the heart of everything that we do, and we’re committed to changing the future of retail for the better acting in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
Giving back is in our nature as a Business and in 2018 we established the Pavers Foundation, in the memory of our late founder, Catherine Paver. Since then, the Foundation has awarded grants for causes close to our colleagues’ hearts for; community, education, and areas of health, totalling more than £2m, growing year on year.
If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you - please apply today for the role of Buying Admin Assistant.
