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Houston, TX
Buying Admin Assistant
Houston, TX
Graham-Mohr
Houston, TX
Buying Admin Assistant
  • Work with FINANCE to setup any new brands as quickly as possible to ensure orders are accurately recorded within the buying & merchandising system
  • ASSIST in the production of buying department reports
  • ADHERING to department KPI’s to respond to DC queries in a timely fashion and maintaining the issue tracker with progression and resolution of queries
  • DOUBLE check the buying & merchandising system to ensure that the automatic upload was successful and all relevant order information has passed to purchase orders accurately
  • MAINTAIN a full system, spreadsheet and paper audit trail to ensure future queries can be tracked. Working toward tagging all online documents to the merchandising system for relevant company visibility
  • LIAISING with DC goods in, suppliers, buyers and freight companies to resolve all delivery discrepancies relating to goods being delivered. I.E. damaged items, over deliveries or shortage of stock, etc
  • ENSURE the buying & merchandising system is continuously up to date and accurate for current season, continuity and for all cancelled/void orders
Phoenix, AZ
Buying Administration Assistant
Phoenix, AZ
Macejkovic-Spencer
Phoenix, AZ
Buying Administration Assistant
  • Managing and developing interns, including delegating tasks, managing the workloads and monitoring overall performance
  • Running daily sales reports, uploading images, and creating packs for each season containing important brand and product information
  • Provide all-round administrative support to the Buying team enabling them to maximize buying services to Browns
  • Provide comprehensive and efficient administrative support to the Buying team enabling them to maximize buying services to Browns
  • Assist buyers in writing orders and loading them accurately and efficiently onto the system, and generating PO Numbers for suppliers
  • Assist Buyers in writing orders and loading them accurately and efficiently onto the system, and generating PO Numbers for suppliers
  • Completing expenses for the buying department
present
New York, NY
Buying Administrative Assistant
New York, NY
Kunde, McLaughlin and Steuber
present
New York, NY
Buying Administrative Assistant
present
  • Support multiple buyers and buying assistants
  • Manage and follow up with reorders
  • Work with the analyst team in regards to reorders, units, and order potential
  • Assist the team on ad-hoc tasks with local and international partners
  • Work with analysts on bi-weekly and monthly reorders
  • Create Reorders based off sell-through reports and our internal reorder console
  • Work on special projects as assigned
Education Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion
Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion
Skills Skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • High attention to detail and committed to quality
  • Excellent communication Skills
  • Good general administrative skills
  • Uses initiative, is able to plan and prioritise work
  • An organised approach and able to work to deadlines
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to deal with data that may be sensitive or confidential
  • Strong organisation Skills
  • Ability to work on own initiative, but be a team player in a fast-growing and exciting young company
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15 Buying Assistant resume templates

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Buying Administrative Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Purchase order entry
  • Manage and follow up with reorders
  • Order Confirmations
  • Send weekly selling to reps
  • Category, Merchandising projects
  • Work with marketing and editorial pulling products for shoots
  • Work with the analyst team in regards to reorders, units, and order potential
  • Pulling size scales for brands/orders
  • Work with analysts on bi-weekly and monthly reorders
  • Create Reorders based off sell-through reports and our internal reorder console
  • Coordinate travel arrangements and reservations
  • Completing new client forms
  • Communicate with sales reps, accounts receivable, shipping WH, as well as our internal receiving department and accounting department to assist in reconciling any discrepancies with orders
  • Work closely with the merchandising team
  • 1-3 years experience in a buying office or fashion industry environment required
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Buying Administrative Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • High volume of purchase order entry
  • Knowledgeable in women’s contemporary brands, as well as current trends
  • Ability to balance multiple tasks, as well as attention to detail
  • Work on special projects as assigned
  • Must be able to work flexible hours to get the job done
  • 1+ years of experience in a showroom or in a buying office or fashion industry environment required
  • Proficient in Email, Microsoft applications
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Fwrd Buying Administrative Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • HIGH VOLUME OF PURCHASE ORDER ENTRY
  • REVIEWING ORDER CONFIRMATIONS TO ENSURE THEY MATCH ORIGINAL ORDER
  • KNOWLEDGEABLE IN WOMEN’S luxury BRANDS, AS WELL AS CURRENT TRENDS
  • ABILITY TO BALANCE MULTIPLE TASKS, AS WELL AS ATTENTION TO DETAIL
  • SHIP PACKAGES AND KEEP TRACK SHIPMENTS THAT GET SENT TO/FROM VENDORS
  • FOLLOW UP ON PLACEMENT OF MERCHANDISE THAT MAY BE IN TRANSIT OR DELAYED
  • WORK ON SPECIAL PROJECTS AS ASSIGNED
  • SUPPORT MULTIPLE BUYERS AND BUYING ASSISTANTS
  • MUST BE ABLE TO WORK FLEXIBLE HOURS TO GET THE JOB DONE
  • BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN FASHION OR BUSINESS PREFERRED
  • 1+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN A SHOWROOM OR IN A BUYING OFFICE OR FASHION INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT REQUIRED
  • PROFICIENT IN EMAIL, MICROSOFT APPLICATIONS
  • E-commerce apparel experience
  • Knowledge of luxury fashion brands
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Media Planning & Buying Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Global media planning support and coordination
  • Governance of the global media activation and content delivery process
  • Full ownership and management of dynamic advertising delivery systems
  • Key liaison with our in house Creative Media team and Engagement Marketing across all media
  • Owning the global job briefs
  • Manage the relationship between production agency Tag and media agency Dentsu Aegis
  • Delivering global performance reports for the wider Marketing community
  • Championing media chat groups on Burberry World, our proprietary social media platform that connects employees, contractors and partners globally
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Executive Assistant / Buying Coordinator Resume Examples & Samples

  • 4 year College Degree required
  • 2-5 years related work experience
  • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Internet savvy
  • Work well in a collaborative environment
  • Have the ability to handle confidential matters/paperwork, etc
  • Possess excellent follow up skills
  • Strong analytical abilities
  • Extremely organized and detailed oriented
  • Self-starter, able to take initiative; be proactive
  • Must be resourceful & strong problem solver
  • Ability to adapt to changing work and business priorities
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Buying & Merchandising Admin Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Main duties include controlling stock movements, invoice posting and stock allocation, monitoring the warehouse stock
  • Time management and organisational skills, a talent for communicating and a team player are crucial to succeed in the role. Allocating provides a fantastic opportunity to learn about the business from a strategic point of view and also develops business acumen
  • Decision making: makes confident decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, experience, and judgment
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Buying Administration Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Assist with own-brand buy meetings, taking an active role in the preparation of the meetings; ensuring information & product is prepared in an organised manner ahead of the meeting
  • Collate orders, ensuring correct dates, quantities and size breaks for the correct styles are submitted accurately
  • Manage the documentation of products selected and changes discussed in buy meetings
  • Effectively manage sampling for your product categories
  • Organise and prepare product for various meetings
  • Update and maintain spreadsheets to track ordering and the shape of range
  • Liaise with multiple departments to ensure that any buying activity is fully communicated
  • Champion the marketing of your category to drive brand awareness & sales
  • Bring competitor reports and awareness to the team to support decision making
  • Work with Visual merchandising to build guidelines around intake
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Buying Administration Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Completing expenses for the buying department
  • Researching emerging brands and designers through various channels and providing new brand recommendations to the buyers to bring newness to the product offering
  • Taking ownership of the Delivery Schedule and communicating key dates internally
  • Assist buyers in writing orders and loading them accurately and efficiently onto the system, and generating PO Numbers for suppliers
  • Provide comprehensive and efficient administrative support to the Buying team enabling them to maximize buying services to Browns
  • Order Confirmation Checking – Including cancellations, price changes and amendments to orders
  • Running daily sales reports, uploading images, and creating packs for each season containing important brand and product information
  • Assisting buyers in managing their buying trips and schedules for fashion week. This includes obtaining dates from suppliers, schedule appointments or rescheduling when needed, requesting show tickets for all fashion weeks, and booking travel and accommodation
  • Managing and developing interns, including delegating tasks, managing the workloads and monitoring overall performance
  • Eagerness to learn and develop a career within the Buying function at Browns
  • Keen interest in luxury Womenswear fashion, with a passion for merchandise and trends
  • Analytical skills in order to assist with sales analysis and forecasting
  • Strong organisation and time management skills with the ability to plan, and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
  • Previous experience in a BAA or similar administration role within the fashion industry
  • Good eye for product demonstrating excellent commercial awareness in the luxury market
  • High attention to detail to ensure accuracy in work
  • Natural relationship building skills in order to work effectively with suppliers, and across internal departments
  • Flexible in nature and willingness to go the extra mile to support the department
  • Maturity and confidence in approach
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Buying Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Education to A-Level standard or equivalent
  • Good general MS office skills
  • Excellent numerical and verbal communication skills
  • Previous office adminstration experience
  • Good general administrative skills
  • Ability to deal with data that may be sensitive or confidential
  • High attention to detail and committed to quality
  • Uses initiative, is able to plan and prioritise work
  • An organised approach and able to work to deadlines
  • Self motivated, and focused as a team member
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Buying Admin Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Highly organised with attention to detail when performing tasks, ability to anticipate and manage problems, with an ability to prioritise and escalate where necessary
  • Systems experience or a clear demonstration of the ability to learn to use systems quickly, good communication skills; communicating clearly using phone, email, VC etc
  • Proactive in agreeing to take workload away from assistant buyer where appropriate
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Buying Administration Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Liaising with Suppliers and other departments including Merchandising, E-Commerce, Operations, Finance and Retail regarding product and deliveries for the department
  • Assist Buyers in writing orders and loading them accurately and efficiently onto the system, and generating PO Numbers for suppliers
  • First point of contact for the department regarding any queries relating to stock, orders, and deliveries
  • Assisting Buyers in managing their buying trips and schedules for fashion week. This includes obtaining dates from suppliers, schedule appointments or rescheduling when needed, requesting show tickets for all fashion weeks, and booking travel and accommodation
  • Provide all-round administrative support to the Buying team enabling them to maximize buying services to Browns
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Buying Admin Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • CHECK all supplier order confirmation details received are correct, resolve any queries with the supplier, buying and finance in a timely fashion to adhere to any supplier deadlines
  • Work with FINANCE to setup any new brands as quickly as possible to ensure orders are accurately recorded within the buying & merchandising system
  • PROGRESS chase buyers for mark ups, phase 2 of order process, to allow requisition orders to be progressed to purchase orders by deadlines
  • DOUBLE check the buying & merchandising system to ensure that the automatic upload was successful and all relevant order information has passed to purchase orders accurately
  • ACCURATELY update the system hierarchy when required, adding categories and sizes as required
  • ENSURE suppliers receive Matches purchase orders as soon as orders are confirmed
  • LIAISING with DC goods in, suppliers, buyers and freight companies to resolve all delivery discrepancies relating to goods being delivered. I.E. damaged items, over deliveries or shortage of stock, etc
  • ADHERING to department KPI’s to respond to DC queries in a timely fashion and maintaining the issue tracker with progression and resolution of queries
  • ENSURE the buying & merchandising system is continuously up to date and accurate for current season, continuity and for all cancelled/void orders
  • MAINTAIN a full system, spreadsheet and paper audit trail to ensure future queries can be tracked. Working toward tagging all online documents to the merchandising system for relevant company visibility
  • LIAISING with the stores and the photo studio on any product issues regarding, coding and item information
  • LIAISING with Finance invoice matching teams on any queries and inaccuracies on cost, currency and terms
  • DAY to DAY running of the order process function
  • ASSIST in the production of buying department reports
  • ANY OTHER duties as reasonably requested
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Buying Admin Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • To adhere to buying milestones within the critical path
  • Liaise with suppliers to chase samples and key information
  • Support sample management as appropriate to the needs of the department
  • To ensure that Promotional and Pricing administration is completed efficiently and effectively on behalf of the trading team
  • O ensure all contracts are raised in a timely manner
  • Prepare for, attend, and take notes at meetings
  • Conduct competitor shop reports and feedback to team
  • Maximises learning opportunities to broaden knowledge of the Buying team’s responsibilities in order to support with queries from the wider team
  • Ample organisation (if appropriate to product area)
  • Minimum of a 2:1 degree
  • 1+ years admin experience with a desire to pursue a career in buying
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Buying Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Collating product details and images from suppliers
  • Producing on-time and accurate data entry/copywriting for upload to the website and maintaining the critical production path
  • Researching brand and competitor activity
  • Working closely with the Production team to optimise the look and feel of each promotion
  • Communicating with suppliers and liaising with the Marketing, PR and Editorial teams
  • Proficiency in Excel
  • Ability to write product descriptions for the website
  • Commercial awareness and customer focus, with a working knowledge of the retail market and brands
  • Planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise your workload effectively
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
  • Clear and effective communication
  • Ability to work on own initiative, but be a team player in a fast-growing and exciting young company
  • Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn and get involved
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Buying Administrative Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Daily communication and coordination with Buyers to fulfill admin duties
  • Liaison with other departments within the company to ensure a smooth pipeline of deals
  • Database (Salesforce) administration and operations
  • Contract administration, fact-checking deals prior to publication, and filing
  • Assist the team on ad-hoc tasks with local and international partners
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Media Buying Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • The Media Buying Assistant position at Beall’s Department Stores is an entry level position that will maintain day to day communication with our Print Partners including placement of all print media with the Newspapers and coordination with the Printers. The assistant will traffic print artwork and process invoices for all
  • Communicate print strategies for inserts, ROP, Post its, Poly Bags and all other Newspaper elements with the Newspaper Vendors
  • Build rapport and maintain relationship with outside media resources
  • Process Invoices for Media Buys and traffic Media Creative to Vendors, and all other duties and responsibilities as assigned
  • Minimum 4-year BA or BS degree
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite with fluency in Excel
  • Fluent in English
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Buying Admin Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • To support the Assistant Buyer with the co-ordination and preparation for range for sign off and systemic elements of the buying process, ensuring the timely completion of the relevant systemic approvals and processes
  • Support the Buyer & Assistant Buyer by developing a clear understanding of M &S’ customer, ensuring the segments and demographics needs are understood and put at the heart of the product offer developed
  • Support the Buyer & Assistant Buyer working with Design to interpret and adapt to market trends and direction, ensuring that the conceptual range developed is differentiating and targeted to the needs of the customer through compiling and presenting competitor shops
  • Promote and support the collaboration with Sourcing Offices globally to help develop appropriate supply routes enabling the Department to react to trade
  • Contribute as an active member of the Buying team to work within a commercially focussed culture
  • Systems experience or a clear demonstration of the ability to learn to use systems quickly
  • Good communication skills; communicating clearly using phone, email, VC etc
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Buying Team Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Sample management
  • Site merchandising and IDQ
  • Competitor analysis
  • Data input and order raising
  • Liaising with vendors
  • Liaising with a range of internal stakeholders including marketing, imaging, QA, planning, finance and operations. The role will require organisational and time management skills as well as strong data and analytical skills
  • Passion for fashion
  • Strong data and analytical skills
  • Self starter with good time management and organisational skills
  • Experience of online clothing & fashion retailing
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel advantageous
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Buying Assistant Resume Examples & Samples

  • Support the timely arrival and availability of product, generating style numbers, sending and monitoring style agreement forms/Buyers worksheets, raising SKU's and contracts accurately, and amending where necessary
  • Ensure all contracts are dispatched and returned within the agreed time frames
  • Input accurate information to the contracting systems and supporting documents, in order to maintain accurate style and financial information
  • Responsible for sample management and storage
  • Collect and collate all information relevant to critical path management on a weekly basis
  • Provide administrative support as required, including booking meeting rooms, providing hospitality duties, opening and distributing post and parcels, and ensuring that department and meeting rooms are maintained tidily
  • Continually develop knowledge by regularly visiting stores, competitive shopping, reviewing customer insight information, etc
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the store environment and the implications for the development, delivery and implementation of products to our stores by carrying out regular store visits and responding to stores feedback
  • Strong organisation Skills
  • Excellent communication Skills
  • Attention to detail
  • High level of numeracy
  • Confidence