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Buying Assistant - Candles & Home Fragrance

Hybrid in Asda House·Full-time·Added 14 days ago (last checked 1 Oct)

Asda

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Overview

Job details

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

  • Be near Asda House for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

Benefits

  • Pension matched up to 7%

    The employer matches what you pay in, per the ad. The legal minimum is 3%.

Skills

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Competitive salary plus benefits.

  • Discretionary company bonus

  • Company pension up to 7% matched

  • 15% colleague discount in store and online

  • Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 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.

The role

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.

How you'll work

37.5

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:

Job Title

Buying Assistant Candles & Home Fragrance

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Fixed Term

Category

Buying

Closing Date

4 October 2026

Hiring process

2 steps1 interviewa task to do

  1. Apply online

  2. Online assessments

    Online test · Not every role

    An online assessment for certain roles, to help you understand more about the role.

  3. Interview and assessment

    With a hiring manager

    Getting to know how you align with Asda's values and the key skills for the role, in person or virtual depending on location and timescales; some roles go to an assessment centre, in one or two stages.

  4. Offer or feedback · With a hiring manager

  • Expect an update on your application within 10 days.
  • Asda aims to interview 1-2 weeks after the closing date.
  • Asda aims to give feedback within one week of your interview.

About Asda

Asda is a large retail business that describes itself as "Reimagining Retail", operating in the retail industry with a validated focus on retail, technology and head-office roles.

According to its careers site, it is "a big business" offering far more role types than the familiar customer-facing ones, and it says that "because our business is changing we're creating new roles all the time".

Industry
Retail, technology and head-office roles
Website
asda.com

In their own words

Additional information

  • 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

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