Assistant Buyer, Women’s Hosiery, Intimates, Sleepwear, F&A (18-month contract)

Founded in 2006, Joe Fresh is a leading source for modern style and accessible design, offering comprehensive lifestyle collections for men, women and children. Joe Fresh delivers quality and compelling value in categories spanning in apparel, accessories, and footwear. Joe Fresh collections are polished and sophisticated, with a focus on essential designs that appeal to a broad range of style-savvy consumers. With more than 350 Joe Fresh departments from coast to coast, the Joe fresh network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work. We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness, and inclusivity. We are looking for innovative, hardworking, and collaborative team members for our Joe Fresh team. Join our team in our goal of helping Canadians Live Life Well®.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

The Assistant Buyer (18 month contract) is responsible for providing support and follow up for the Senior Buyer in all aspects of the category business. This individual will participate in all activities of the buying process and follow up on all daily activities in the buying office.

What you’ll do:

• Assists in achieving sales, profit and inventory targets with an understanding of financial metrics.
• Works to ensure all purchase order deadlines are met and execute updates as necessary.
• Oversee sample tracking and ensure approvals are completed in a timely manner and communicated to vendor
• Ensures correct pricing information is uploaded into systems including markdowns and promotional pricing.
• Resolves systematic issues to ensure store scanning issues are minimized.
• Validates all marketing assets prior to effective date (flyers, in-store signage, and campaigns).
• Partners and works closely with various member of the internal and external teams; visual, marketing, product development, design, space planning, supply chain, vendors, etc.
• Monitors category sales weekly and proposes actions to the Senior Buyer/Senior Director as necessary (markdowns, promotional events, delivery follow-up, etc.).

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising.
• 1-2 years of buying office experience.
• Must have strong knowledge/passion of apparel.
• Must be self motivated, have solid interpersonal skills and be able to function well in a team environment.
• Must be proficient in Excel, Pivot Tables, Word and Power Point.

How You’ll Succeed:
At Joe Fresh, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today.

Joe Fresh recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :$44,000.00 - $60,500.00 / 44.000,00$ - 60.500,00$ (per year / par an)A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

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