Overview
Thank you for your interest in joining our team! QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands – QVC, HSN, Ballard Designs, Frontgate, Garnet Hill and Grandin Road. We are a live social shopping company that redefines the shopping experience through video-driven commerce on every screen, from smartphones and tablets to laptops and TVs. QVC Group brings innovative products, compelling content, and unforgettable moments to millions of shoppers worldwide via social platforms, streaming apps, ecommerce sites and TV channels, making every screen a doorway to discovery, delight and community.
The Opportunity
As an Assistant Buyer at QVC, you will be responsible for supporting product range development within the Garden, Plants and DIY categories, helping to manage a critical path from vendors to the studio floor. You will collaborate with colleagues across the path to ensure each product is presented correctly and respond in real time to what’s happening online and on screen. This role sits at the heart of our distinctive retail approach, where planning is focused on immediate opportunities as well as ongoing sales targets.
Reporting to the Buying Manager and working with the Junior Buyer and Buyer, you’ll work across the Garden, Plants and DIY categories managing a critical path that takes products from vendors to the studio floor. You’ll work with everyone on that path to ensure each product is presented in the right way, and you’ll respond in real time to what’s happening online and on screen. We believe there’s no more exciting place to be an Assistant Buyer.
Who We Are
QVC empowers shoppers with knowledge and shares insights in a lively, engaging way. We offer an ever-changing collection of familiar brands and fresh new products – from home and fashion to beauty, electronics and jewellery – and we connect shoppers to interesting personalities, engaging stories and award-winning customer service.
QVC International brings the QVC shopping experience to millions of people in Germany, Austria, Japan, the U.K., Ireland and Italy. QVC International reaches 124 million homes via 10 television networks and reaches millions more via multiple streaming services, websites, mobile apps and social pages. QVC International has team members in the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Poland and China.
Your Impact
* You will provide creative and administrative support to the Junior Buyer and Buyer in developing product ranges to meet sales, margin and stock targets within a specific product/category area.
* You will work with top brands in helping us always improve and grow our range.
* Gain experience of the buying process, working with the Junior Buyer and Buyer.
* Manage category-related administrative processes time-sensitive to the business.
* Collate and present product and sales information, trend packs and mood boards, including preparing for the day\'s strategic meetings.
* Produce range review packs, market reports and competitor shopping analysis, and bring suggestions of new ideas/products to the team.
What You Bring
* You\'ve already had experience within a head office buying environment, at BAA level.
* You will be trend aware, and passionate about product.
* You\'ll have experience managing a critical path, be able to partner with suppliers
* You\'ll have the sort of deep product understanding that allow you to prepare guest presenters before a live show.
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Disability and Diversity
QVC UK is a Disability Confident Leader, level 3 accredited employer and operates a Disability Confident Scheme (“DCS”). For any UK based roles, if you’d like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this on the application form.
Benefits and Equal Opportunity
Our Total Rewards package includes benefits you’ll love such as competitive compensation, paid time off, an employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and amazing company discounts. In our US market, you can also expect health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement benefits.
QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at workwithus@qvcgrp.com for assistance.
If provided, salary ranges are a general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate\'s qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location as well as business and market conditions.
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