Job Description

The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world's most influential female leaders and innovators.


Join The Fold Team





We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example -never compromising on our quality.


We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.

Assistant Buyer

About the role:

We're looking for a talented Assistant Buyer to join our team! If you're currently an Assistant Buyer or a Senior Buying Admin Assistant ready to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you.

Your responsibilities:

Critical Path Management

Manage the end-to-end process following the order placement to ex factory date before handing over to Merchandising and Logistics. Communicates with suppliers to ensure all samples and garment production is on track. Ensure deadlines are met to achieve agreed launch dates. Drives the Critical Path meetings for fully factored suppliers, ensuring that the meeting is effective and decisions are made in a timely fashion. Collates all delivery updates and presents to Director confidently with all information and with time to make decisions. Ensures that the product process is managed effectively and is able to recognise the impact of product change, or delays in the critical path that may affect delivery. Able to drive decisions being made and influence all team members to ensure that deliveries are met and commercial decisions are made.

Data Inputting & Systems

In collaboration with Merchandising and the Buyer ensure the range plan is kept up to date with all relevant information punctually and in an accurate manner. Upload and maintain all information on the product software system, Netsuite. Responsible for sending suppliers POs and following up with any amendments required Record and manage changes made in meetings or through updates, ensuring relevant action is taken and the wider team is kept informed. Assist the buyer in annotating images and copy for The Book and Online.

Sample Management

Coordinate sample management to ensure all samples are available for internal meetings with all information recorded accurately in the relevant tools and relayed accurately to relevant teams. Coordinate sample management for all internal and external shoots ensuring accurate information is passed on to the marketing team. Escalates any issues with samples in advance of key meetings and shoots and offers solutions to resolve. Manage communications with Marketing in relation to shoots.

Trade

Review weekly sales performance and pull together key messages. Assist in reviewing stock, sales and orders with an ability to identify risks and opprtunities within the range. Taking necessary urgency to ensure sales targets are achieved. Participate in Lessons Learnt prep through using sales data to rank product and pull together key messages, leading to shopping lists and strategic decisions. Work with Design Assistant to ensure that line ups are kept fully up to date.

Product / Range Development

Completes focused competitor research and makes recommendations on price and range architecture. Manages price negotiations with suppliers to ensure seasonal target margins are met. Cross develop / sample and cost with existing and new suppliers to ensure best cost and quality. Attend fit sessions, start to input based on trade reactions and range architecture to Senior Buyer. Understanding of customer needs and demands (price, quality, availability). Demonstrates technical knowledge on garment construction, fabrics and quality.

Your skillset:

Enthusiastic and pro-active, with a hard-working, conscientious attitude. A team player with a positive, can-do attitude. Strong organizational and multitasking skills are required. Able to think on their feet and take on responsibility. Time management skills, able to meet deadlines in a very busy and demanding role. The ability to use own initiative in a fast-paced but fun and collaborative environment. Is able to manage workload in accordance to business needs. Asks for support and direction to develop skill base. Able to gather information to make better and informed decisions. Strong verbal communication with peers, shows ability to influence Managers and step in when Senior Buyer is absent. Strong communication and relationships with key suppliers. Strong IT and Excel skills.

Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:

25 days holidays (including bank holidays) Buy additional holidays Employee Assistance Programme Pension schemewith pension salary sacrifice options Financial wellbeing support Salary sacrifice options for groceries & childcare Enhanced maternity pay Yearly gift voucher of 1,250 A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price Bike to work scheme, save on the cost of bikes and equipment Eye Care. Summer Friday hours Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties Volunteering

Our Culture:

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example - never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:

Be Humbitious:

Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don't be a diva.

Wrap it up with a bow on it:

Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.

Be Empowered:

Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,

Fold Gold Standard:

Quality and professionalism, don't just 'let it go', pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.

Embrace, pace, progress and adventure:

Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.




To apply for this role, please send your CV to

careers@thefoldlondon.com

. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.