Assistant Buyer | LOOKFANTASTIC

Life at THG Beauty 

We know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands with a marketplace for over 1,300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader. 

 

Why be an Assistant Buyer at THG Beauty? 

You will join a multi-brand, dynamic team of true beauty enthusiasts, with the opportunity to work cross-functionally with the wider category-led Buying team. You will also have the opportunity to work with market leading brands and internal teams across the Lookfantastic business to drive continued sales and profit growth. By driving strong joint business plans with each of our brand partners, you will have the opportunity to grow and develop your category with ample opportunity for progression and development.  

  

As an Assistant Buyer, you’ll:   

• Work with the Junior Buyer / Buyer to build, manage and deliver brand budgets and build best in market joint business plans to achieve business benefits including market leading promotions, first to market launches, exclusives and investment into promotional & marketing support to maximise performance.  

• Communicate key joint business plan activations by brand to site managers and marketing teams to ensure the successful execution and coordinate joint business plan activations including the set up and ordering of NPD and gift with purchases, setting live and taking down brand promotions, providing clear guidance to trading teams around the time, strength and included SKUs of any promotions and actively providing teams with marketing assets to promote brands across site   

• Work in close alignment with the LOOKFANTASTIC and boutique site managers to ensure brands are well represented on site   

• Be responsible for continuous monitoring and review of category performance to analyse sales patterns, taking into consideration competitor activations in the market. Advises relevant teams and ensures appropriate action is taken to unforeseen sales reactions.  

• Attends brand meetings alongside Junior Buyer / Buyer to offer support in meeting notes and feedback  
   

  

What skills and experience do I need for this role?  

• Financial and analytical ability – ability to budget and review performance  

• Excellent communicator – able to give clarity and set direction 

• Commercial awareness of the beauty industry  

• Strong knowledge of your brand partners  

• Ability to form good working relationships with internal teams and external clients  

• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills  

• Project management skills 

• Negotiation skills   

 

What’s in it for me? 

Career Development 

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team. 

• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider. 

Enhanced Leave 

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. 

• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us! 

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.  

• Up to 10 days compassionate leave. 

• Buy back up to 3 days each year. 

• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months. 

Wellbeing Support 

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP. 

• Access our in-house CBT therapist. 

• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.  

• State-of-the-art on-site gym. 

• Access to our on-site physio. 

Other Perks 

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme. 

• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.  

• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands. 

• On-site staff shop. 

• Access to on-site barber. 

• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation. 

• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.