About Us

Were an online only direct to consumer fashion brand. We dont worry about Black Friday because were building that level of hype every other week.

The brand is inclusive, with a mission for everyone to feel great in what they wear.

The team is lean but driven, we believe success comes from constantly thinking up new ideas, experimenting, learning and pivoting.

About the Role

Weve just gotten rid of all our legacy tech. You will not be supporting ancient systems running on dusty servers.

Instead, were looking for someone who can connect different components of our platform together using the latest cloud technologies (AWS), ensuring these connections run as close to perfect as possible. But it is not just about integrations. You will be joining us at the start of a new journey as we build out advanced retail management systems.

This is a DevOps role, you support what you build, using CI/CT/CD and Infrastructure as Code to ensure resilience from the start.

As the in-house experts in technology, youll also be working with stakeholders across the business to help them solve their challenges and to help them identify areas for innovation.

About You

Youve had a successful software engineering career to this point, and youre looking for a new role with responsibility, one in which you make and live by your own decisions.

For you there is no standard day, you thrive on the unknown. You relish the chance to work in a dynamic environment where you can create real value for the company every day. New technologies are seen as a potential opportunity to learn, to innovate and to develop new ideas.

You are comfortable with serverless technologies and event flows, ideally within AWS. Ours are currently built using SST and Node (TypeScript), with some Python thrown in where needed, but were open to new ideas.

While you will help to design and follow team and department standards for change management, you also recognise when it is more appropriate to build a rapid prototype and when to professionalise these prototypes.

You see talking with and building strong relationships with people across the business as the best way to understand problems, find meaningful solutions and co-create value through innovation.

Relevant Skills

• TypeScript (Or JavaScript with desire to learn TS)
• Node
• AWS

• Lambda
• DynamoDB
• API Gateway
• SQS/SNS/Event Bridge
• S3
• IAM

• Basic Python
• HTML/CSS
• APIs

• REST
• GraphQL
• SOAP

• CI/CT/CD

• Appropriate TDD
• Cucumber Syntax

• Jira/Confluence
• Miro
• Requirements Gathering
• Explorative Testing
• Issue Resolution

• Vendor Management

What you'll get in return

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Pension
• Eye care vouchers
• 40% Discount on ITS clothing
• Hybrid working
• Kind days

In The Style is a leading pure-play online women's fashion retailer. We're all about championing female empowerment, body confidence and real beauty.

Through our collaborator model and in-house garment design, we create unique collections for all occasions and we're looking for an Assistant Buyer to join our team.

This role is based in our Manchester office with a requirement to be in the office several times a week.

The difference you'll make

Buyers play a critical role at ITS, working closely with the Design and Merchandising teams to build commercial, trend-led product ranges for the business that are loved by the ITS customer.

They are collaborative, organised and strategic, at the forefront of fashion and always looking to push our ranges forward.

In partnership with Merchandising and Design; buyers are responsible for the delivery of sales and profit targets through delivering fit for purpose, commercially relevant product in collaboration with our celebrities and influencers

In this role as Assistant Buyer, you'll be taking the lead on all buying activity for your assigned celebrity to increase range sell-through, achieve product margin, minimise returns and ensure we have a range of products to suit our ITS women.

Your most important tasks

Critical Path management

• Maintaining critical path following sign off to ensure lead times are met and all styles hit delivery dates
• Assisting the buyer and designer with product range and building new collections for sign off
• Attending fit sessions, ensuring fit of the garments are commercial and appropriate and fits are sealed in a timely manner.

Supplier Management

• Liaising with suppliers (UK and international) to ensure product requirements are fully understood and deadlines are met.
• Landing freight; calculating freight onboard costs and ensuring product bibles have complete costings prior to sign off

eCommerce

• Building and preparing style options for our shoots, ensuring an appropriate range of product options are available.
• Liaising with the Studio Manager to plan and schedule product shoots and determine style and theme for each collection.
• Working with the eCommerce team to ensure online prices, descriptions & copy and images showcase our products in the best possible way and are ready for launch.

Quality Management and Product Performance

• Maintain high levels of product quality via a thorough Goods-in quality check procedure and take relevant action based on outcome.
• Manage and review our products by supplier to maintain high levels of quality and ensure margin is protected on failed lines.
• Review product performance, including best and worst sellers and feed in to updates for new ranges
• Review high returner products with QA, design and merchandising team and determine actions for current stock and future ranges

The way you'll work

• Managing and negotiating product costs with suppliers in line with budget and margin targets
• Reviewing quantities with Merchandising; ensuring each range falls within budget and preparing quantity packs for sign off
• Supporting wholesale sales and ensuring information is clear and correct for our wholesale partners
• Reviewing competitors and assisting with trade weekly and comp shops when necessary
• Influencing buying activity using knowledge and understanding of our target customer
• Manage own workload and ensure all communication channels are checked, managed and actioned
• Work with Buying Admin Assistant to ensure workload is covered
• Assisting the Buying Admin Assistant with sample management, ensuring all shoot samples arrive on time for eCommerce and Celeb shoots

How your impact will be measured

• Critical path deadlines

• Range sell-through

• Budget management

• Quality / Returns

• Product margin

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Knowledge and experience in the fast fashion industry

• Experience of managing suppliers (UK and international)

• Experience of buying fashion products for range plans and managing costs to improve margin

What you'll get in return

• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
  
• Pension
• 40% Discount on ITS clothing

If this role is of interest and you think you have the right skills and experience, hit apply.