Job TitleBuying Assistant - H&B
LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours Per Week37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
CategoryBuying
Closing Date7 April 2025
Are you interested in kickstarting a career in Buying?
Getting the details right can have a surprisingly big impact, as you'll soon realise when you join our team. In this incredibly fast moving and ever changing environment, you'll discover exactly how much the little things matter. From daily sales and profit reports, to admin support and marketing getting everything accurate is hugely important. And doing it as efficiently as possible will bring savings to our customers as well as to our business.
You will support the Buyer in all areas, including sales tracking and analysis. It's important that you keep the admin up to date, including line listing, cost and retail changes and liaise with suppliers to ensure that they keep to deadlines and tasks. You will Impute into decisions on ranges and promotions and answer and resolve store/supplier queries.
Other important tasks include raising and reconciling of internal and external invoices to the category and assisting the Buyer with competitor research and the day to day trading of your category.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
What We Do
It’s hard for anyone to imagine just how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with on the shop floor (or on your doorstep), there are hundreds of others you don’t get to see.
In fact, because our business is changing so rapidly, there are new roles being created at Asda all the time. Technology is changing how we do things every day, helping us to reimagine retail to make life better for our customers, in-store and online.
For those with imagination, can-do, integrity and a willingness to embrace change, the possibilities at Asda are limitless. Take a look around and see where a career at Asda could take you.
