Assistant Buyer

About the job

🚀 We’re Hiring: Assistant Buyer

📍Location: Onsite at Manchester HQ

🕒 Full-time OFFICE BASED | Competitive Salary + Perks

The Company

Join one of the fastest-growing retailers in the UK and be part of something extraordinary. We aim to offer own-brand on-trend products for home and life, for a price that suits all budgets. OHS sell everything from the latest bedding styles, soft towels, throws, curtains, rugs, furniture and much more. OHS constantly develops and innovates its product range and growing its customer base. If you’re a proactive, dynamic person who wants to learn in a high-performing environment, we are the company for you.

The Role

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Assistant Buyer to support our buying team in sourcing products, analysing sales performance, and managing supplier relationships. The successful candidate will work closely with various departments to help drive commercial performance and ensure the right products are available for our customers.

🛍️ What You’ll Be Doing:

• Critical Path Management – taking full responsibility for depts CP.
• Sample Management – making sure all samples are organised and approved on time.
• Responsible for approval of pre shipment inspections
• Creation and management of label artwork.
• Assisting Buyer in range building and development- including attending comp shops and online comp shopping.
• Oversee and sign off the sample process – lab dips/strike offs, red seals and gold seals.
• Strong understanding of our target consumer, competitors and marketplace platforms.
• Liaise with far east factories to ensure that deadlines are met.
• Ensure we are achieving set launch dates.
• Assist with the development of product ranges across our brands, contributing new ideas that are relevant for each brands target market.
• Consistently keep up to date with new trends, colours and fabrics.
• Carrying out in-store and online competitor analysis and SWOT reports to assist Buyer in buys.
• Communicating with the Ecommerce team to help support Campaigns and Photo Shoots.
• Organizing and giving inspiration/ guidance to studio for photography styling per range.

💡 What You’ll Bring:

• Buying Admin Experience in Buying Head Office
• Wide market awareness across Home Value Retailers in the market
• Highly organised- able to prioritise tasks and work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Solid commercial awareness
• Creative
• Understanding of the supply chain
• Administrative and accuracy skills
• IT skills including Excel
• Proactive and eager to learn
• Minimum 2 years Buying Admin Experience

Why Join Us?

• Fast-moving collaborative company culture
• Regular company social events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free flu jabs
• On-site parking
• Flexible working times

👀 Sound Like You?

At OHS, you won’t just join a team — you’ll be part of a fast-moving retail success story. If you’re ambitious, collaborative, and excited by scale, apply today and help shape the future of home shopping in the UK .

📩 Apply now!

Note for Recruiters:We do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any CV's submitted without a signed agreement in place will be considered our property, and we will not be liable for any fees should we choose to engage the candidate. We operate a preferred supplier list (PSL) and will only accept submissions from agencies on that list who have been instructed to work on the role.